Aroundtown Meets Cynthia Shaw MBE
When a letter from the Cabinet Office came through the letterbox at her home in Harley, stating that she was to be made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in King Charles’s 2023 New Year Honours List, Cynthia Shaw put it down in semi-disgust. Thinking it was...
Aroundtown Meets Labre’s Hope
We meet the founders and staff at Labre’s Hope, a community interest company that is ending homelessness – one bar of ethically made soap at a time.
Aroundtown Meets Ian McMillan
We meet the Bard of Barnsley, Ian McMillan to hear more about how hardly saying no has led to him becoming one of poetry’s most recognisable faces.
Aroundtown Meets Tala Lee-Turton
There’s an admirable fearlessness about Tala Lee-Turton. Her whole life has been spent meticulously moving her body beyond its limits as a classically trained dancer. But now she’s pushing the boundaries of ballet, exercising her creativity to produce performances that defy the customary conventions and boxed in views of the...
Aroundtown Meets Alan Hydes
We meet former table tennis champion Alan Hydes to hear how a 50p bat bought from Barnsley Co-op would enable him to travel the world with the England team.
Aroundtown Meets Professor Dame Hilary Chapman DBE, Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire
She’s a professor, a dame, a Doctor of Medicine, and is now Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of South Yorkshire. But when we meet her at her new office in Barnsley town hall, she introduces herself simply as Hilary. We’re in the presence of an extraordinary woman whose outstanding commitment to nursing...
Aroundtown Meets Jean Pursglove
Swinton’s Jean Pursglove is the only person who was at the opening day of Rotherham Civic Theatre in 1960 that is still involved today.
Aroundtown Meets Peter Elliott MBE
As a former world-class athlete who won a plethora of medals at three of the four major championships, middle-distance runner, Peter Elliot MBE, is Rotherham’s most successful athlete at international level.
Aroundtown Meets Denise Moody
This July, Moodyhair celebrates 60 years in business. We meet the red-haired maitriarch, Denise Moody, to look back through their diamond years.
