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Each day this week, you'll be able to hear all about Voices on BBC Radio Derby's Sony-award winning Breakfast Show with Andy Whittaker.
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MONDAY 12TH MAY
We’ll be running a competition for two tickets to the FA Cup Final throughout the week, and will kick-start (pardon the pun) it by making Monday’s a sports-oriented feature. We’ve been looking at Booth St FC, a little Alvaston football club, started to get kids from 5 - 16 off the streets.
We’ll have the organiser, John Foy as live studio guest for an update. Also as studio guest: Tom Kellogg, from Sporting Futures, a national sports charity which works with kids from areas of social deprivation.
He’s been helping John get his kids organised into league teams and he’ll also be able to announce that Derby has just won the right, for the 3rd year running, to host the National Football Tournament, in which Booth street FC can compete.
John will bring along his two children, a boy and girl and we’ll ask his little daughter to read out our first competition question. | TUESDAY 13TH MAY
The first of our week’s audio-diaries: Nathan Buckley is just 17. He’s living in the YMCA because he no longer has any family in the country. His mother remarried and left for Saudi Arabia, and his father died of cancer.
His school career proved equally traumatic when his exams were disrupted for reasons you’ll not guess. Now he’s trying to make a life, get a job - he’s talented in I.T. and find a permanent address.
Those are the bare facts - but this diary is how it feels from the inside. There will be a four minute version in the Breakfast Show, followed by the full version in Mid-Morning at approx 9.20. (+ Second question for Cup Final tickets competition!). | WEDNESDAY 14TH MAY
St Martin’s school has been central to Voices. It’s a special needs school catering for children with learning and emotional difficulties. One of the things we were able to do was to put the school in touch with the University of Derby’s Expressive Arts Department.
Two Post-grad students have been holding workshops in art, dance, music and drama there for the past three months. Wednesday’s feature eavesdrops on one of the drama sessions.
You may have lived in happy ignorance of the therapeutic benefits of Zip Zap Boing...but we’re about to change all that. (+ Third leg questions for Cup Final Tickets...a film quiz with lines from the Movies acted by the St Martin thespians!) |
THURSDAY 15TH MAY
The second of our audio-diaries: Marilyn is the bobby-on-the-beat, a community officer in our Alvaston area. She says she’s making this diary as an answer to her husband’s perennial question : what do you do all day?
Again, the complete version of her diary will be broadcast on Mid-morning at approx 9.20 (Fourth question for Cup Final tickets) |
FRIDAY 16TH MAY
The Breakfast show is on Outside Broadcast - at Jack Marcer’s Bakery, on Brighton Rd. Jack started out as a butcher....it remains to see whether he’ll make candle-stick -maker. It’s a family firm so you’ll be introduced to his wife and son, and to customers (patients at the D.R.I doubtless find Jack’s cakes and puddings decent medicine).
We’ll call in at the local newsagent, help deliver the milk, feed Andy bacon cobs and generally savour early-morning Alvaston AND, we’ll be holding a penalty shoot-out as the competition for Cup Final tickets is fought out between the last two competitors. | SATURDAY 17TH MAY
Is there another Alvaston in the world we wondered? Well, there’s Gavaston, if you cheat and drop the G - then we found a likely candidate in Tasmania. Tune in if you want to know how we measure up (it’s described as a non-boundary location..do we have a candidate for the place with no name?). We’ll be doing long-distance you-show-me-yours with Shane O’Connor. (They have an Ulvaston, too!) | SUNDAY 18TH MAY
We should have a choice of audio-diarists to complete the week. So, will we introduce you to Mark, the single father of a little four year old daughter, or to Keith, a Pentecostal clergyman ? Find out without even coming out from under the duvet. Both are Voices with plenty to say. |
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