Latest Campanology Podcast Episodes
Calling all young ringers
Fun with Bells - December 09, 2021 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsShow host, and adulty adult, Cathy Booth meets three more young ringers in this month’s episode, this time all founder members of the Young Change Ringers Association. Josephine, Emily and Matt share the aims behind the new association, discuss the support that enables young ringers to become t...
The Lilliputters Guild
Fun with Bells - November 11, 2021 07:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat’s got 40 members, stretches across a large part of the country and is a brilliant way to have fun, improve your ringing and make friends? Well, if you are a young bell ringer, the answer must surely be the Liliputters. Not, as host Cathy Booth discovers, a group from the fictional kingdom ...
Superstition
Fun with Bells - October 14, 2021 06:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAvoid all ladders, black cats and don’t whatever you do break a mirror in your rush to listen to this month’s Fun with Bells podcast on bells and superstition. From birth, through to death and beyond, bells have had played a fascinating role in the customs around our key rites of passage. Among...
Chatting with the authors of 'Change ringing on handbells'
Fun with Bells - September 09, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsJust as change ringing on handbells requires each ringer to have two bells, this perfectly formed podcast on the subject has two guests. Host Cathy Booth chats with Tina and Simon, authors of the latest must-have handbell manual. As always, this podcast asks all the right questions. What is bes...
10 ways to use a simulator
Fun with Bells - July 08, 2021 06:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsYou may not have given ringing simulators a second thought before, but this episode will definitely get you scrambling up your belfry, with some sensors in hand. Steve Farmer, tells host Cathy Booth the fascinating story of Simbell. Wanting an easy way to get get extra rope time without annoyin...
Take a deep breath...
Fun with Bells - June 10, 2021 06:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTake a few deep breaths, relax, and tune into this month’s episode where host Cathy Booth meets ringer, counsellor, hypnotherapist and trauma care practitioner, Nicky Carling to talk about building up confidence for returning to the tower. Yes, it’s probably time you changed out of your pyjamas...
Inspirational bell restoration project
Fun with Bells - May 13, 2021 06:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCathy Booth’s special guest this month is ringer and project manager par excellence Tim Keyes who gives us the inside scoop of Ledbury’s rather exciting bell restoration and augmentation project. Tim very helpfully talks through all the different stages of the project, step by step, with plenty...
Young autistic bell ringer and historian
Fun with Bells - April 08, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this fast-paced episode, podcast host Cathy Booth meets 20-year-old ringer, Oliver Lee, and discovers his passion for ringing and ringing history. Oliver is clearly fascinated by all aspects of ringing and takes Cathy on whistle-stop tour of a huge range of ringing-related subjects, ranging ...
Test your bell ringing and general knowledge
Fun with Bells - March 11, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this month’s show, podcast host Cathy Booth transforms into the next Anne Robinson as she joins the ringers of St John’s in New Alresford for their fortnightly Zoom quiz. Fingers on buzzers as the ringers introduce each other and ask their two allotted quiz questions. There’s one point for e...
Love under lockdown : Ringing Room Creators
Fun with Bells - February 11, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the very best things to have happened over the past year is the development of the online ringing platform, Ringing Room. In this special Valentine’s podcast, host Cathy Booth interviews Leland and Bryn, the driving force behind this amazing achievement and now one of ringing’s most famou...
Love under lockdown : Belfry proposal, survey results & Valentine message
Fun with Bells - February 11, 2021 06:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLove is very definitely in the air at the Fun with Bells Podcast this Valentine’s Day, as host Cathy Booth explores ringing’s tender side. First, we hear the heart-warming story of Jo and Graham, whose romance continues to deepen from Ringing Remembers, through Ringing Room, and to a very memor...
Ringing in Ireland : Don McLean
Fun with Bells - January 14, 2021 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor Don McLean over in Ireland, one of the joys of bell ringing is teaching others and delighting in their achievements. In this charming episode, Cathy Booth, podcast host, shines a light on Don’s motivation and his own considerable achievements, including masterminding the training of 17 new r...
Hear from those who write, blog and vlog about bells
Fun with Bells - December 10, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhat do ringers do when they are not ringing? Well, judging by this latest episode they write, film, podcast and blog about it! Podcast host Cathy Booth chats to no fewer than six leading lights in the ringing community who are all doing their bit to share and support the hobby they are all so ...
Mancroft Ringing Discovery Centre / Blue lines and pickled eggs
Fun with Bells - November 12, 2020 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHome of the first true peal, St Peter Mancroft in Norwich is now home to the brilliant Mancroft Ringing Discovery Centre. Podcast host Cathy Booth catches up with Simon Rudd and Nikki Thomas to find out what’s been happening. Well, there’s been so much going on it’s hard to know where to start!...
Spooky Stories from the Ringers' Arms
Fun with Bells - October 31, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor this episode, we have provided a Transcript with photos Ringing can be spooky at the best of times – you may get shivers down your spine with a nicely struck touch of Stedman, or perhaps an eerie sensation of being watched when you’re on the treble. However, for Halloween, Fun with Bells t...
Trailer for our Halloween special
Fun with Bells - October 08, 2020 06:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe ‘Ringers’ Arms’ image used for our Halloween special episode is a fake pub sign created by Maggie Willans. Podcast team: Anne Tansley Thomas Emily Roderick John Gwynne Emily Watts Cathy Booth Ringing by: The Cambridge Youths (supplied by David Richards) and for later episodes, The Liliput...
Weird and wonderful bell towers (2 of 2)
Fun with Bells - September 10, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFollowing on from last month’s edition, podcast host Cathy Booth reveals another dodgy dozen or so weird and wonderful towers. WARNING - this podcast contains details of hair-raising ringing environments, definitely not for the nervous ringers amongst you! Enjoy another litany of trapdoors, sp...
Weird and wondeful bell towers (2 of 2)
Fun with Bells - September 10, 2020 06:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFollowing on from last month’s edition, podcast host Cathy Booth reveals another dodgy dozen or so weird and wonderful towers. WARNING - this podcast contains details of hair-raising ringing environments, definitely not for the nervous ringers amongst you! Enjoy another litany of trapdoors, sp...
Weird and wondeful bell towers (part 1 of 2)
Fun with Bells - August 13, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThese tales of weird and wonderful towers are definitely not for the faint-hearted ringers among you. Podshow host, Cathy Booth, invites us behind the scenes of 15 of the most outlandish ringing environments from across the world, featuring trap doors, vaults, ventilator shafts, crawl ways and...
Weird and wonderful bell towers (part 1 of 2)
Fun with Bells - August 13, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThese tales of weird and wonderful towers are definitely not for the faint-hearted ringers among you. Podshow host, Cathy Booth, invites us behind the scenes of 15 of the most outlandish ringing environments from across the world, featuring trap doors, vaults, ventilator shafts, crawlways and ...
The Loughborough Bell Foundry
Fun with Bells - July 09, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode sees host Cathy Booth in conversation with Andrew Wilby for a fascinating insight into the Taylor Bell Foundry past, present and future. Based in Loughborough, we hear all about the history behind the foundry and some of the exiting attractions on site. The foundry has its own muse...
The Loughborough Bell Foundry
Fun with Bells - July 09, 2020 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode sees host Cathy Booth in conversation with Andrew Wilby for a fascinating insight into the Taylor Bell Foundry's past, present and future. Based in Loughborough, we hear all about the history behind the foundry and some of the exciting attractions on site. The foundry has its own m...
Two ringing centres and a passion for hand bells
Fun with Bells - June 11, 2020 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsCan one ever have too many belfries? In this fascinating podcast, show host Cathy Booth finds the answer to this is no, as she quizes Helen McGregor about the amazing ringing centres at Tulloch and Alderney. Helen’s bell ringing started as an excuse not to commit to babysitting for a neighbour ...
Lifting the WWII ban on ringing
Fun with Bells - May 08, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOriginally timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE day, this unique episode sees host Cathy Booth, joined by a whole cast of ringers, bust the myths about ringing during World War II. This is the abridged version of ‘thirty voices, seventy-five years, one story’ aimed at non-ringers. A...
Thirty voices, seventy five years, one story
Fun with Bells - May 07, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOriginally timed to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE day, this unique episode sees host Cathy Booth, joined by a whole cast of ringers, bust the myths about ringing during World War II. This is the full version of ‘thirty voices, seventy-five years, one story’. And what a story! Bell to...
15 tips to improve your striking
Fun with Bells - April 09, 2020 06:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this episode you’ll get three for the price of one as a panel of the country’s top strikers discuss their top tips. And no, it’s not football we’re talking about, but bell ringing! Colin Newman, Lesley Boyle and Stephanie Warboys join podcast host Cathy Booth at the Association of Ringing Te...
Remarkable phd study of Cambridge bellringers pay and habits
Fun with Bells - March 12, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast, historian Gareth Davies challenges everything you ever thought about the history of bell ringing in one of host Cathy Booth’s most engaging interviews yet. At times, Gareth makes being an 18th century ringer sound like everyone’s dream job. Fancy being paid £80,000 a year, enjo...
Remarkable phd study of bellringers pay and habits : Gareth Davies
Fun with Bells - March 12, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast, historian Gareth Davies challenges everything you ever thought about the history of bell ringing in one of host Cathy Booth’s most engaging interviews yet. At times, Gareth makes being an 18th century ringer sound like everyone’s dream job. Fancy being paid £80,000 a year, enjo...
Remarkable phd study of Cambridge bellringers' pay and habits
Fun with Bells - March 12, 2020 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIn this podcast, historian Gareth Davies challenges everything you ever thought about the history of bell ringing in one of host Cathy Booth’s most engaging interviews yet. At times, Gareth makes being an 18th century ringer sound like everyone’s dream job. Fancy being paid £80,000 a year, enjo...
The Charmborough ring - a portable belfry
Fun with Bells - February 13, 2020 07:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor this episode, show host Cathy Booth stays close to home and interviews her ringer husband, Roger, a trustee of the Charmborough Ring. Not just your average mini-ring, the Charmborough Ring is the heaviest portable ring of bells in the country. Heavier, believe it or not, than some rings of...
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