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BBC Somerset Bus

By Liam O'Leary

The BBC Somerset Bus has been whizzing around the county for over a year now. She’s travelled from Watchet in the west to Wincanton in the East, from Cheddar in the north to Chard in south, and many of the points in between.

What does the Bus do? Well, it has a number of roles, and these include:

Events confirmed so far...

JUNE

20^th - Bishops Hull
21^st- Othery Street Fair
25^th-29^th June Glastonbury Festival

JULY

4^th- Long Sutton Golf Club
5^th - Wellington Food Festival
12^th - Shepton Beauchamp village fair
13^th - Lords Taverner's cricket match, Frome. (TBC)
19^th - Chilcompton Village day
20^th -Tewksbury - one year after the floods
29^th - Ferne Animal Sanctuary, nr Chard
30^th - Dunster Show (TBC)

AUGUST

1^st - Taunton Flower show
2^nd - West Somerset Railway Steam Fayre & Vintage Vehicle Rally
9^th - RSPCA Animal Rescue Centre, West Hatch.
17^th - The Mid Somerset Show, Shepton Mallet.
25^th - Wembdon Village day.
29^th - Woolavington.
30^th - Castle Cary.

To get BBC Somerset out into local communities across the county.
To find out what people in Somerset want from their local radio station, and from the BBC in general.
To promote the major BBC campaigns, such as the Reading and Writing project (RaW) and Springwatch and Autumnwatch among many others
To feedback to the BBC any brickbats and bouquets - from listeners and viewers - who might not usually have the chance to comment
To broadcast live radio shows around Somerset from a town or village near you

We've broadcast the Jo Phillip’s “Morning Jo” show. We've made sure you get home safely with Elise Rayner’s “Drive” and the county has woken up as we've broadcast live into Adam Thomas’s daily “Big Breakfast”.

Even the “Saturday Breakfast” show presented by the former resident of the BBC’s “Broom Cupboard”, our very own Simon Parkin has been out and about on the bus.

His show came live from the Royal Bath and West show and a week later from Baltonsborough, where we joined in with the locals as they held their monthly “grumpy old man’s “breakfast.

But live broadcasting isn't all that we do.

Would you like the bus to visit you?

So if you think the bus might add something to your event, then why not fill in the request form and we’ll see what we can do. Who knows? If you don't ask…

Fill in the form below and the BBC Somerset Bus could be coming to visit your town or village.

last updated: 18/06/2008 at 13:29
created: 03/04/2007

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