September’s Dorking Talking

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Dorking’s Talking in September. What are we talking about? This month we feature some nooks and crannies of the town, the effects of climate change on eye health, and making bus travel easier. And we celebrate outdoor art and traditional crafts from sculpture to hedge laying.

  1. September Welcome
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls Whats On
  5. Can Climate Change Affect Eye Health?
  6. Blue moon
  7. Easier Bus Travel
  8. Heritage Open Days: Writing On The Wall
  9. Local craftsman Gerry from Westhumble
  10. Hedges & Hurdles – country crafts
  11. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  12. Great Train Robbers 60th anniversary
  13. Three Men in Boat visit Maze
  14. Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden
  15. Thought for September
  16. Endpiece
  17. Infoshorts #33
  18. Infoshorts #35

Dorking’s Talking in August 2023

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What’s Dorking Talking about this month? Well, we’re planning for Heritage Open Days in Mole Valley, we’ve got advice on how not to let fraudsters help themselves to your money, and meet Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and other Paralympians campaigning for disability rights. We support the Air Ambulance with a cuppa tea and join the fight to keep ticket offices on stations open. We make hay with Jo Chaytor’s little flock of sheep in Coldharbour and hear about a man who may be deafblind but is nonetheless a successful portrait photographer.

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July’s Dorking Talking

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Join us for this month’s magazine to hear about making transport more accessible, how to avoid being scammed, and all about the St John Ambulance. There’s a cluster of events to put in your diary, we reveal shorn sheep, the mystery of riverside rights and the curious life and times of post boxes. And whatever happened to those church door keys…?

Welcome to the June Magazine

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Summer’s definitely here with ice cream weather and in Dorking Talking this month we celebrate ice cream’s history and also the many variants of our national cuppa. We hear about help for both cataracts and macular disease and a project helping adults with learning difficulties move into the world of work. And we enjoy the riches of our wonderful Surrey Hills with bees, sheep, trees and grasslands.

  1. June Welcome
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls Whats On
  5. Music for Coronation
  6. Cataract Awareness Month
  7. National Tea Day
  8. ALDAG Helping Adults with Learning Difficulties
  9. Macular Society local group
  10. Ice Cream History
  11. How Theatres Coped in Wartime
  12. Dorking Manor book prize – Thurza
  13. Too Much of a Wood Thing – Plant Life
  14. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  15. Bee Friends
  16. Surrey Coalition for Disabled Access to Nature
  17. Trio of VI Heroes say Try Something New
  18. Thought for June
  19. Endpiece
  20. Infoshorts 21
  21. Infoshorts 23

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Magazine for May 2023

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Here we are in May – the month of bluebells and blossom. Join us as we visit our wonderful countryside to meet first a sleepy dormouse and then Jo Chaytor, the Coldharbour shepherdess. Later we find out about various new developments helping with visual impairment, and report back to you on how the past year’s gone for your Talking Newspaper. There’s news of Guide Dogs, buses and bellringers. As usual we’ll keep you up to date in the High St and the Dorking Halls and of course we have a coronation to celebrate…

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  1. May welcome & birthdays
  2. Anniversaries
  3. High St Update
  4. Dorking Halls What’s On
  5. DDTN Chairman’s Report from AGM
  6. Soundings Possible AI Solutions for VI
  7. Guide Dogs: AV signs in all buses
  8. Dormice Waking from Hibernation
  9. Coldharbour Shepherdess
  10. Soundings Shortage of Guide Dog Fosterers
  11. Infoshorts 15: Call screening, veg peeling…
  12. Soundings: Has VI Influenced Art?
  13. Brockham Bonfire Letter ?
  14. Jean Douglas Obit
  15. Ringing the bells
  16. Coronation events locally
  17. Thought: Bells
  18. Endpiece
  19. 10 Today Series 2#10

Welcome back to DDTN website!

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We’re delighted to announce that the Dorking & District Talking Newspaper is back online, following a rebuild of our website. We hope you find it easy to read and navigate and look forward to hearing from you.

We can also tell you that Dorking and Bookham Talking Newspapers are now working co-operatively to provide a weekly service to all our listeners. You get a geographically wider range of stories and a variety of presentation styles which we hope you enjoy.

For regular updates, watch this space!