March Dorking Talking: Spring is springing!
Welcome to Springtime at last! As well as the latest from Dorking Halls and the High Street, we look at Macular disease and the support available for both patients and their families. We go back in time to schooldays long past, prove just how eco-friendly we all were in the old days before “the green thing” and enjoy a browse through an assortment of nice, nifty, nasty and sometimes naughty names attached to local people and places. Just click Listen Here to enjoy it all with us:
- March Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal
- Book a Free Safe & Well Visit
- All About Macular Disease
- Support from Macular Society
- Helping Hands for VIP
- Never Eat Shredded Wheat
- Reg Rose Wartime Memories #4
- Mothering Sunday
- Shepherdessing Winter to Spring
- Vaughan Williams House in Dorking
- The “Green Thing”
- Nifty to Nasty Names
- Thought for March: Lent
- Endpiece
February’s Dorking Talking is Here!
February’s Dorking Talking is here, bringing you up to date with what’s on in the High Street & Dorking halls, as well as tips on eye injections, packs to keep you warm and possible discounts on your tv licence. We talk to a Dorking family solicitor, find out why Mole Valley is “the best place to live”, and continue our wartime memoirs of Westcott.
01 Welcome & Birthdays
02 Anniversaries
03 Dorking High St Update
04 Dorking Halls What’s On
05 Soundings TV Licence Discounts – Are You Eligible?
06 Macular Society Tips for Eye Injections
07 Warm Packs from Surrey Coalition of Disabled People
08 Sarah Sheridan Local Solicitor
09 Mole Valley “Best place to live”
10 Reg Rose Wartime Memories #3
11 When I’m an Old Lady & Live With My Kids
12 February Gardening Notes
13 Thought for February: Be All-Loving
14 Endpiece
Happy New Year from Dorking Talking!
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.
- Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Macular Society Winter Fuel Payment eligibility
- Burns and Ode to the Haggis
- Musicals Quiz Questions
- Police Dog Puppy Raising
- Musicals Quiz Answers
- Crafting Tips for VIP
- It Couldn’t be Done
- Penny Melville Life Goes On
- Fullers Shop – Siblings Keep Going
- Reg Rose Westcott Wartime Memories #2
- Thought for January – Love is…
- Endpiece
- Audioplay: Festive Spirits
Dorking’s Talking Christmas!
Surprise surprise: Dorking’s Talking Christmas this month! There are plenty of local events and gift ideas to tell you about, a Christmas quiz, the last of our VocalEyes series of London landmarks and the first of a new series: the wartime memories of Reg Rose from Westcott. So plenty of festive information and entertainment for you, with a splash of fun thrown in for good measure. Are you ready to kick off Christmas? Crackers at the ready? Click Listen Here and join us!
- December Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Xmas music in Mole Valley
- Xmas Greenery History
- Safe Disposal of Your Tree
- Dorking Quirky Shops
- Soundings Xmas Gift Ideas for VIP
- Christmas Quiz Questions
- Christmas bellringing
- Christmas Quiz Answers
- Reg Rose Westcott Memories 1
- St James the Least Dangers of Carol Services
- Christmas Day on the Western Front
- Maureen Lipman as Mrs Potty
- Vocaleyes – Peter Pan Statue Susan Greenfield
- Xmas Thought Christmas Expectations
- Endpiece
November’s Dorking Talking
It’s that time of year and we’ve got spooks and spiders for you, together with clock changes and Remembrance. We’re out of doors with bees, a new sensory garden, and sheep (hopefully not eating the garden!). And we hear about how sight loss might open up new worlds for visually impaired people as well as about a new App which uses the soundscape around to navigate by. Just click the Listen Here button to join us and hear all about it.
- Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On & Ashtead Players Spirit Level
- Dorking Christmas Fair
- Soundings Vision Loss Opening a New World
- Happy Birthday Sight for Surrey Helpdesk
- Using Soundscape to Navigate
- GMT clock change
- St James the Least – Changing Hymn Books
- Jo Chaytor Shepherdess
- Buzzing in the Garden
- West Horsley Place Sensory Garden
- Spider Webs in Autumn
- VocalEyes: The Cenotaph Alastair Stewart
- Unsung Heroines – women ATA pilots
- Thought: Remembrance of All
- Endpiece
August Dorking Talking – the holiday edition!
Join us on our summer holidays with a visit to London Zoo and one to Dorking Caves, a trip to the Lake District with Beatrix Potter, and an animal quiz. We walk in the woods, pop into the theatre – oh and no holiday’s complete without Dad going through his repertoire of Dad jokes, so we’ve got some of those too.
July’s Dorking Talking
July’s here – tipping us into the second half of the year. This month we check out sight loss and driving; as well as lighting in your home, and ask if St Swithin will bring us rain or shine. We bring you guide dogs, weeds and windmills and take a look at the Shard. And we discover that suffragettes were responsible for Morris dancing as we know it today – yes really!
It’s all here: just click the “Latest Magazine” button to listen .
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls latest
- Vision and Driving
- Age Concern in Mole Valley over 75 years
- Making best use of light indoors
- Chester the guide dog
- Suffragettes & Morris Dancing
- St Swithin’s Day 24th July
- Buckland pond clearance
- Vets’ tips for a Heatwave
- Conquering Concrete
- Buckland Only Wind-powered Sawmill
- London Beyond Sight: The Shard with Steven Berkoff
- July Thought Beauty is all around
- Endpiece
Welcome to sunshine, strawberries & cream…
Welcome to June, summer sunshine, strawberries and cream – well, that’s the idea.
It’s Macular week this month – meet Stella Black of the Macular Society to find out about her work and the support groups she runs. Then we look at access for guide dogs, the Brigitte Trust and local Land Girls as well as lawns and lawn tennis. That’s all as well as what’s going on in Dorking not to mention our Shepherdess and her ghost!
Just click the Magazine Listen Here button to hear all about it.
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High Street Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Stella Black, Macular Week
- Access for Assistance Dogs
- Land Girl memories of Buckland
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- All the Fun of the Fairs
- St James the Least Kitchen in Church
- Brigitte Trust 40th anniversary
- Floella Benjamin
- Visit to Dorking
- Long & short of it: lawns
- London Beyond Sight Wimbledon Final
- St Barnabas Feast Day
- Thought for June: Journeys
- Endpiece
April’s here – a magazine full of Spring activities!
April’s here and we’ve got plenty of ideas for your leisure time: theatres with great shows to be enjoyed, local music-making and an assortment of activities to join in around the area. We learn about home eye tests and who can get them, and find out about a holiday company making abroad accessible for people with sight loss. We visit the Old Vic Theatre in the company of Sir Derek Jacobi, celebrate a saggy, baggy old cloth cat and ask the vital question: to gnome or not to gnome?
- April Welcome & Birthdays
- Coming Elections and How To Vote
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Polka Theatre Easter Holidays
- Leith Hill “A Lark” Dorking Dramatic & Operatic Society
- Do You Qualify for a Home Eye Test?
- SeeAble Holidays
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- Keeping Cut Flowers Beautiful
- Bookham Tree Lovers
- Buckland litter pick & pond clearances
- Surrey Youth Games
- West Horsley Place Easter Activities
- To Gnome or Not To Gnome?
- Bagpuss
- Derek Jacobi describes Old Vic Theatre
- Thought for April: Passover
- Endpiece
It’s March – Spring is on the way!
Hello Spring! A little sunshine here in Dorking and the promise of more to come – doesn’t it just lift the spirits?
This month we feature loads of information and things for you to do – keeping you up to date on the town and local events. There’s technology being tried out by Guide Dogs – robotic K9 anyone? – our shepherdess is lambing and Dorking Museum joins the Surrey Yeomanry. Mark Rylance takes a loving look at the Globe Theatre Gates, made here in the Fire & Iron Gallery, and we’ve got plenty of fun and smiles on offer too. Just click the link to listen.
- Welcome & birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- Dorking Museum in March
- CAB Energy Bills Advice Line
- TV Licence Scam
- Kathy Atherton On Surrey Yeomanry
- Robot Guide Dogs For Real?
- Suggested New Dog Breeds?
- Coldharbour Shepherdess
- St James Least: Glebe into Allotments
- Looking Back 50 Years To 1974
- Atlas Love Poem
- VOCALEYES Mark Rylance Gates of the Globe Theatre
- Bonkers Blind Moments
- Dr Monella’s Retirement THURZA
- Lent Thought For March
- Endpiece