July’s Dorking Talking is here!
This month we focus on some of the latest ideas for people with poor sight: suggestions for Summer days out; how to cope with bright sunlight; Macular Society research into peripheral vision; making e-scooters noisy to keep pedestrians safer; and a new theatre project featuring visually impaired actors. Then we have the story of Alexandra Palace, as well as the latest updates from Dorking Halls and the High Street.
Just click the link to listen:
- July Welcome & Birthdays
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Dorking Banking Hub in Pippbrook
- Westcott Village Hub – a Community Story
- Macular Society Research on Peripheral Vision Aids
- Making E-Scooters Make a Noise
- Alexandra Palace Anniversary
- Summer Shepherdess
- Coping With Photophobia in Summer
- VI Actors Take to the Stage
- Enjoying Summer Days Out
- St James the Least on Complaints
- WI Audio Newsletter
- Thought: If I Get Dementia
- Endpiece
June Dorking Talking
Here we are in June, with loads of local events, from the Dorking Big Green Week, Abinger Medieval Fair and the Surrey Hills Festival of Wine to the circus coming to Meadowbank, and from sheepdogs to big bands.
We also feature the extra medical needs of visually impaired people, gardening “ tips for VIPs” and the multifarious hobbies enjoyed by those with poor vision. Something for everyone, in fact.
- Welcome
- Invitation
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- VIP Patient Treatment Risks
- Tips for VIPs – Gardening
- VI Hobbies
- Circus / Big Band concert / Craft Festival / Wine Festival
- Dorking Big Green Week
- St James the least on CCTV
- Detector Dog Making a Difference
- Grandma’s House Poem
- June Thought: Ageing Cheerfully
- Endpiece
May’s Dorking Talking
Dorking’s Cockerel is all dressed up for VE Day and we’re celebrating with him, with veteran’s memories. We’ve also got tips on reducing your household bills, healthy eating, and shopping with sight loss. And as well as VE Day, we’ll be celebrating Dolly Parton, walnut trees, and the hidden gems that are Leatherhead Museum and Dorking’s Greenroom Theatre…
…not to mention raising a cuppa to International Tea Day! So get the kettle on the boil and click the Listen button to join us:
- May Welcome & Birthdays
- Anniversaries
- High St Update
- Dorking Halls What’s On
- Shop Around and Beat Bill Hikes
- Lancaster Bomber Radio Operator
- Reg Rose Wartime Memories #6
- International Tea Day
- Leatherhead Museum
- Dorking’s Hidden Theatre
- VI Shopping Tips
- Dolly Parton philanthropist
- Eat Your Rainbow
- Walnut Trees: Chris Currie
- Thought: Pro Patria Mori
- Endpiece
Dance into April!
Dance into Spring with Chris McCausland in April’s Dorking Talking! We find out what’s next when you’re diagnosed with macular disease, hear about charity “Eye Matter” bringing people with impaired sight together, and get ready to celebrate Surrey Day in Dorking. And what do William Shakespeare and the Wizard of Oz have in common? They’re both coming to Dorking this month – oh yes they are!
- April Welcome & Anniversaries
- Dorking Halls Whats On
- High St Update
- Shakespeare Birthday Walks in Dorking
- What Follows a Macular Disease Diagnosis and Why Register As Sight Impaired?
- St James the Least Parking at Church
- Bee Facts
- Soundings: Eye Matter charity
- Chris McCausland interview
- Soundings Ballroom Brainteaser
- Reg Rose Wartime Memories #5
- Surrey Day 2025 in Dorking
- Easter Egg Thought for Month
- Endpiece
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.