Aroundtown Meets Lynsey Lockey
If there’s one person you’d want in your corner, it’s Lynsey Lockey. A force to be reckoned with in women’s boxing, she’s a fighter in every metaphorical way. She’s fought gender bias and injustice, battled melanoma, depression and personal loss, and combatted the struggle of being a busy working mum...
Aroundtown Meets Billingley Christmas Tree Farm
The big man in red might get all the glory, but there’s someone here in South Yorkshire without whom Christmas might not be so magical. His black boots are covered in mud, not soot, he carries loppers rather than a sack of presents, and in place of a sleigh is...
Aroundtown Meets Tom Masters
He’s the Barnsley lad with the big voice, big heart and big hair. And it’s clear to see why Tom Masters has instantly struck a chord with audiences across the region. Over the last few years, we’ve seen Tom mature from this young tenor in the award-winning Barnsley Youth Choir...
Aroundtown Meets Dr Bijoy Mondal
As specialist in ageing, it comes as no surprise to hear that geriatrician Dr Bijoy Mondal is still working at 82. Many of his patients are younger than he is. But his motto – to himself and his patients – is ‘use it or lose it’. “Working keeps my brain...
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...
