Bromley Buzz

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley. We talk about all sorts of things from pugs to Startup Bromley , and we have interviews with Louis from the Croft Tea Room in St Mary Cray, Victoria from Visit Chislehurst during the Chislehurst Christmas Market, and we have a short, but powerful, extract from our recent interview with Darren Day, appearing at Bromley's Churc...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley. We talk with Julie Covill from Orpington Football Club about many topics including plans for a new community pavillion, help received from local MP Gareth Bacon , and, on Remembrance Sunday, Zeenat interviews the leader of the XBY Concert Band , Dennis Mycroft. Zeenat provides her regular affirmation , Darren complains about...

"Welcome. Ladies and Gentlemen, you are about to see a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery - all those things we all hold near and dear to our hearts. Thank you." In this special episode of the Bromley Buzz podcast, Darren Weale interviews actor and singer Darren Day before his appearance in Chicago at Bromley's Churchill Theatre , between 22nd and 2...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, with chat about and interviews from Beckenham Business Day at Kent's Beckenham cricket ground . We talk with with Councillor Peter Morgan; Apprentice winner and Dough Artisan Bakehouse founder Carina Lepore; Sophie Leighton from Bethlem Art Gallery and Museum of the Mind ; and Jane Rogers, Chair of Beckenham Business Associat...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale  present the latest Buzz about Bromley, recorded in  Newman Flexible Workspace in Bromley. From Remembrance Day to the Halloween takeover of Shortlands Station, to guest interviews with people at the station including Beckenham Rotary Club , and with Warrant Officer Cain of the 106th Regiment, Royal Artillery , the new episode of the Bromley Buzz podcast once more...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, recorded in Newman Flexible Workspace in Bromley. Today's guest is the Deputy Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Tony Owen . In an excerpt from a longer, separate interview, we cover Tony's professional background and career as a Councillor. His stories touch on matters including cassette tapes, cream teas, and Bromley Morris Dancers. Ze...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, recorded in The Orpington Restaurant and Record Store . We talk about the upcoming Remembrance Day commemoration with a special recording from the Orpington Royal British Legion Club , discuss a prize winning student from Newstead Wood School For Girls and a community award-winning Premier Store in Orpington. We cover toilets...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, recorded in the Startup Bromley rooms at Bromley Library. Topics range from James Bond to Magpie Dance , to Strictly Come Dancing, the band Anabolic Steroids and the Priory Live Festival 2022 . We have a spooky outdoor vox pops about 'best kept secret' Bromley Amphitheatre, and cover the Bromley High Street Cultural Activitie...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, recorded remotely (petrol crisis, don't ask). Which member of Bromley Council was called 'darling' on BBC Radio London in the last few days? What were several Mayors of Bromley doing at Biggin Hill airport recently? What is the latest Buzz about Bromley? All this and more is revealed in this latest barely edited episode of th...

In this special episode of the Bromley Buzz podcast, Darren Weale interviews actor Debbie Bird about her one-person show, Buzzing, at the Bridge House Theatre in Penge, ahead of her two night run there on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th October. We discover Debbie's past teaching at Bromley at Biggin Hill's Charles Darwin school , talk about the value of smaller theatres and the Bridge House in partic...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley recorded in the Tangent Office Resources shop in Orpington with the annual Macmillan Coffee Morning run by owner Chandra Sharma going on in the background. A bitesize interview with the Mayoress of Bromley precedes a longer interview with Neil and Emily from the new Lift Each Other Studio in Orpington, which has an impressive...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale present the latest Buzz about Bromley, together with Sarah Marsh-Collings , digital marketing expert and the person who coined the name 'Bromley Buzz' (thank you, Sarah!). In this lively episode Darren discovers a regrettable penchant for using the words 'head honcho', Sarah talks mad scientists, and the Reverend Andy Coyne of the Temple United Reform Church in St...

We loved visiting Bromley Little Theatre so much that we have made it our first special, single topic episode of the Bromley Buzz podcast. Listen as Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale talk from a dressing room full of costumes, hair products and theatrical paraphenalia with Alice Foster and Keith Jeremiah about the 80-year plus history of the theatre, its importance to the community and about future...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale talk from a residence in the heart of Bromley about what's buzzing locally, from new US Open tennis champion Emma Raducanu to Bromley Little Theatre and its latest production, to the new Bromley Business Hub and onto a poem specially crafted for listeners Trevor and Sandra in Ireland! We have an interview with former Mayor of Bromley and current Small Business Cha...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale talk from a sunny Bromley garden, and during a roadtrip to Queensway in Petts Wood, about what's buzzing in Bromley, from Emma Radecanu at the US Open, to the Mayors Ball on 16th October, the Lift Each Other Studio open day in Orpington, Mumbai Central in Hayes, Mindset Matters this week on Channel Radio with Jet of Buster Shuffle, the Chislehurst Rotary Club, Str...

Zeenat Noorani  and  Darren Weale  talk from  Newman Flexible Workspace about what's buzzing in Bromley, from the Costa Del Orpington and Sex In The Walnuts to the whopping sandwiches of Southborough , and DJ Steve Anthony on the Boat That Rocked . Hear from our guest Lauretta Wright of Life In Orpington magazine and her exclusive news about a new Bromley magazine title. Also our own exclusive new...

Zeenat Noorani and Darren Weale talk from Newman Flexible Workspace about what's buzzing in Bromley. Hear about Tom Cruise In Biggin Hill, the Lift Each Other Studio in Orpington, Buster Shuffle , children and beer, grape cake, an interview with Bromley resident Denise Meade-Hill of Transitions Career Management and Training Limited , Affirmations, wet T-shirts, ParkBathe , Bob Hokum, Paul Andrews...

Darren Weale and Green Hat Girl Zeenat Noorani talk about what's buzzing in Bromley, with content about West Wickham, Orpington, central Bromley, and Penge. One of the co-presenters is sacked during the show, and there's an interview with Chandra Sharma of Tangent Office Resources at the Priory Live Festival, ahead of his Macmillan coffee morning in Orpington on 25th September 2021.  Hear the late...

Darren Weale and Zeenat Noorani talk about Bromley, and particularly the Priory Live music festival. Zeenat was up on stage as MC and talked about mental health with musicians, and we interviewed musician Tizane . Like the festival, we are spreading the love! Don't miss our first and quite possibly last rap and our now trademark barely edited, 'as it happened' discussion.  

Darren Weale and Zeenat Noorani talk Bromley and anything else that comes along in this ground-breaking, experimental trial, pilot concept-proving (or not) first episode of Bromley Buzz.