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The Strettons Podcast

The Strettons Podcast

By: Sian Lovegrove Pete Johnson
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Summary

This podcast features the lives of the people who live in Church Stretton and villages in the Shropshire Hills.



It's a tourist area and we welcome visitors from all over the world to enjoy the Shropshire Hills National Landscape. You'll find our guests not only on top of the Long Mynd, but nursing a craft beer in a snug country pub or having coffee and cake in one of the tea rooms in town. Countless fell-runners, mountain-bikers, walkers, hikers, campers and dog-walkers flock to the Church Stretton area every year.



Agriculture is an important part of the economy here and we talk to farmers and others born and raised in the area, not just about farming but what it was like to grow up here. We collect stories of the people who made this area what it is today, the characters who inhabited the village pubs, stories of terrible winters and childhood activities in the fields and streams around the Long Mynd. This is an important archive project for this tiny corner of South Shropshire.



We are the first village podcast in the world and would like to hear from listeners across the world who enjoy hearing voices from The Strettons. We are village people and we want to give a voice to the villages of the Shropshire Hills.



We're independent of any organisation and publish episodes every Tuesday.



We have a website http://thestrettonspod.com/.


Producers

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Keith Morris of Church Stretton

    Keith Morris of Church Stretton
    May 5 2026

    Keith Morris is well-known in the area as the undertaker. He tells us about growing up in Church Stretton, memorable moments with a burning hearse and the brotherhood of undertakers.

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    19 mins
  • Beef, burning houses and the butty van

    Beef, burning houses and the butty van
    Apr 28 2026

    This week we go up onto the Long Mynd to speak to Sioned Morris who's practicing for the stock judging competition at the local Young Farmers Club and then we join the Much Wenlock Fire Service as they carry out a practice drill in the centre of Church Stretton. Finally we are at Bowman Hill Farm in Plaish where the Butty Van is offering not just sausage and bacon baps and cups of tea but important social interaction with other farmers, health checks and chats.


    Timings

    YFC Stock Judging 01:00

    Fire Service drill 07:32

    The Butty Van 14:48

    Total Dur 26:20

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    23 mins
  • Ron Cox of Soudley

    Ron Cox of Soudley
    Apr 21 2026

    Ron Cox looks back on his life in Bucknell and then Ticklerton and Soudley where he still lives today. He tells us about his sporting life, his dancing days, his courting days and what he got up to with his brothers.




    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    20 mins
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