Happy New Year and welcome to 2025!

Christmas may be over but we’ve still got plenty for you to do, starting with Dorking Halls events, crafting tips to occupy the long winter evenings and of course Burns Night coming up. We’ve got news for Macular patients and a celebration of a local shop’s fight to keep going, as well as police dogs, cooking, wartime memories and a New Year’s quiz – how’s your knowledge of musicals?

And we offer an extra New Year’s gift: a lighthearted audio play “Festive Spirits” to entertain and amuse you as we begin 2025. Just click to listen:

Presenter Jessica and Dorkers Christmas shopping in the town.

1. Welcome & Birthdays
2. Anniversaries
3. Dorking Halls What’s On
4. Macular Society Winter Fuel Payment eligibility
5. Burns and Ode to the Haggis
6. Musicals Quiz Questions
7. Police Dog Puppy Raising
8. Musicals Quiz Answers
9. Crafting Tips for VIP
10. It Couldn’t be Done
11. Penny Melville Life Goes On
12. Fullers Shop – Siblings Keep Going
13. Reg Rose Westcott Wartime Memories #2
14. Thought for January – Love is…
15. Endpiece
16. Audioplay: Festive Spirits