The Planet Reigate Podcast

79: Rejuvenating Reigate and Redhill with the local skin expert… and more For Saturday 15th March 2025 https://tinyurl.com/prp78   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   06:05 - Planet Reigate area news   25:50 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for mystery-man ‘J...

78a: *Extra Episode - 30-minute Soundscape Each week on The Planet Reigate Podcast we end with our ' 60-second Soundscape '. Now, uniquely, we have produced our first ' 30-minute Soundscape ', half an hour of natural sounds from across the Planet Reigate area - birds, ducks, insects and the occasional dog and light plane. No voices. No surprises. Nothing loud. It's 30 minutes of natural sounds fro...

78: Redhill’s new community singing and music centre… and more For Saturday 8th March 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   04:11 - Planet Reigate area news   26:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a wheely-great man at Earlswood Lakes.   28:30...

77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and more For Saturday 1st March 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   05:40 - Planet Reigate area news   14:40 – Reigate Roulette. 77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and m...

76: Redhill’s new new-music nights… and more For Saturday 22nd February 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode 03:10 - Planet Reigate area news    15:20 – “Hello Redhill!” The onstage greeting at the first new music night event in the town last weekend.   18:40 – Reigate Roulette. A l...

75: Why The Harlequin’s future is still not confirmed… and more For Saturday 15th February 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   07:30 – We have the highlights of the council meeting which still didn’t give an airtight, copper-bottom, gold-plated, definitive, signed and sealed confirmation...

74: At Valentines, why you love living here … and more For Saturday 8th February 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   06:00 - Planet Reigate area news part 1.   24:15 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, for those who gave kind words to a new driver   25:45 -...

73a: *Extra Episode - Harlequin '£10m decision' at RBBC council meeting 30.01.25 Funding has been earmarked for Redhill's Harlequin theatre which was shut in September 2023 due to unstable concrete in its building. On Thursday evening 30 January 2025,, Reigate and Banstead Borough Council agreed to allocate up to £10m for the theatre and "cultural offerings" in the borough. This is a full report o...

73: The next ‘act’ in The Harlequin’s drama, local plant-based cooking courses… and more For Saturday 1st February 2025 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   10:22 - Planet Reigate area news part 1. Including the latest about the Harlequin - and the latest A&E, ambulance and cancer stats from the h...

72: Reigate’s boxing, horse-riding, wannabe stuntwoman and fitness expert… and more For Saturday 25th January 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   06:55 - Planet Reigate area news   14:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go this week   21:25 – GUEST: Olivia Furne...

71: The local board-gamers group, your ‘wants’ for Reigate High Street… and more For Saturday 18th January 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   07:30 - Planet Reigate area news - Part One   14:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week praise for the boss of The Belfr...

70: More on the Harlequin’s future… and more For Saturday 11th January 2025   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   04:40 – The ‘best bits’ from the council meeting 9th January, with more harlequin discussion. We have taken the, err, more concrete bits from a 1hr 45m meeting and boiled it down to...

The Story Of Bancroft Road Reigate How many times have you driven into Reigate either from Redhill, or from down the Hill, and found yourself in the town’s one-way system, taking that awkward sharp left-hand turn off Church Street, past the town’s only multi-storey car park on the right-hand side, the library tucked away at the dog-leg bend, the Everyman cinema on the right and up to Bell Street.....

69: The story of Bancroft Road, Reigate 4 - behind the scenes at the abandoned swimming pool Saturday 4th January 2025 Now, our four-part mini-series over Christmas and New Year concludes, with what you might call a bonus edition. We have been given special access to part of Bancroft Road that is not normally open to the public. With grateful thanks to Spencer Copping of WS Planning and architectu...

Episode 68: The rise and fall of Reigate’s pool and picture house on Bancroft Road, and the legacy of the husband and wife who got them built. For Saturday 28th December 2024 This is the third part of four in our Christmas/New Year mini-series on the history of Bancroft Road in Reigate.   Part one was in episode 66 – We started the story with Harry Bancroft and Emmy meeting, marrying and runn...

Episode 67: The story of Reigate's lido… and more For Saturday 21st December 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   03:20 – Why a replica of Reigate station is being built in the USA.   06:25 – A thank-you to all our supporters this Christmastime.   09:20 - Planet Reigate area news. &nbsp...

Episode 66 – The story of Bancroft Road, Reigate – the intriguing story of what was built there, why and who by… and more For Saturday 14th December 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   03:25 - Planet Reigate area news.   24:30 – Happy birthday, Donyngs.   29:40 - Planet Reigate area we...

Episode 65 – Reigate’s Neurodivergent  C hampion… and more For Saturday 7th December 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   03:05 – News on our special Harlequin episodes 64b and 64c.   06:35 - Planet Reigate area news.   16:50 – Reigate’s Young Chorister of the Year 23:51 - GUEST: Meet Heike K...

*SECOND* SPECIAL HARLEQUIN EPISODE. This recording is of the public Q&A session organised by the The Reigate and Redhill Society with Harlequin Support Group - HSG held at Carrington School on Wednesday 4th December. It was chaired by Nicholas Owen and questions are answered by council leader Richard Biggs. (there is a Listen:            h...

Harlequin Questions To the Council Leader Welcome to this first ‘special edition’ of The Planet Reigate Podcast. One of the biggest issues in the area for the past year, coinciding with the launch of this show, has been on-going drama of the future of the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill which has been closed since September 2023 when the dangerous reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was dis...

Episode 64 – Reigate Squash Club, Redhill’s workspace… and more For Saturday 30th November 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   04:00 - Planet Reigate area news.   24:20 - GUEST: Hear about the new workplace offices which have come to The Belfry.   28:50 - Planet Reigate area sports. &n...

Episode 63 – Touring one of the area’s biggest primary schools … and more For Saturday 23rd November 2024   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode.   05:10 - Planet Reigate area news.   23:25 – GUEST: The creator of a new mural at Redhill station.   30:30 - Planet Reigate area sports.  ...

Episode 62 – Redhill’s Diwali celebrations… and more For Saturday 16th November 2024   This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode   02:50 - Planet Reigate area news   16:55 – A short history of the Albert Brewery site in Horley   21:55 - Planet Reigate area travel news   25:20 - Guest: We h...

Episode 61 – At Armistice, a unique local way to remember the area’s fallen… and more For Saturday 9th November 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode   02:15 - Planet Reigate area news   16:15 - Guest: Rob Wilson who runs Veteran Gin in Smallfield, the gin which remembers the nation’s fallen in...

Episode 60 – Redhill’s new pool hall… and more For Saturday 2nd November 2024 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week: TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode   09:00 - Planet Reigate area news   26:25 - Guest: Jon Skinner takes us for a tour of Redhill’s new pool hall Spots and Stripes   36:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local hero...