Latest Portobello Podcast Episodes
326 St Mark's Church
Porty Podcast - June 29, 2024 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. St Mark’s Episcopal Church in the High Street has received some good news. The National Churches Trust has awarded it a £100,000 grant to help preserve this historic Georgian building. The church first started fund raising about five years ago but that was hit by lockdow...
325 Award Winning Towerbank Primary
Porty Podcast - June 22, 2024 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Here at The Porty Podcast, we were delighted to learn that a group of primary school children at Towerbank had come top in their age-group in a programme called ‘Academy 9’. The aim was to get schools across Scotland involved in real life science and technology projects ...
324 Portobello Town Hall's First Anniversary
Porty Podcast - June 15, 2024 06:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. It almost seems hard to believe but Portobello Town Hall has been running – and more important running successfully – for a year now. And it’s five years, almost to the day, when Miss Morag from Lothian Dance Academy found the doors barred when she was getting ready to p...
323 Morag Donaldson - an Award Winning Volunteer
Porty Podcast - June 08, 2024 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. If you were looking at Facebook earlier in the week, you may have seen the lovely photograph of a beaming Morag Donaldson. She’s just been presented with an award recognising all the voluntary work she’s done in Portobello in recent years, most recently in connection wit...
322 Sea Rising Festival
Porty Podcast - June 01, 2024 06:00 - 3 minutesSend us a Text Message. It's the first of June. The longest day is just three weeks away. And on Midsummer's Day, The Portobello Sea Rising Festival will take place. In this episode, Hazel Darwin-Clements from Porty Community Energy has been out on the Prom and Beach, occasionally getting her f...
321 Window Wanderland 2024
Porty Podcast - February 24, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. The dark nights of 2020 were enlivened by the brilliant pictures and illustrations people put up for the first Window Wanderland. The event just before Christmas helped us cope with the restrictions of lockdown. This year it’s back but moved to the first weekend of March...
320 Town Hall - What do YOU want to see in the garden?
Porty Podcast - February 17, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. It’s been over six months since the community took over control of Portobello Town Hall. Inside, it’s now strikingly different from what had been before - it now looks quite vibrant and fresh and there’s an air of excitement because of the activity held there. Outside in...
319 The Rose Hafla at Bellfield
Porty Podcast - February 10, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. Belly dancing is synonymous with the Middle East. Some of remember films from the 50s and 60s which feature these exotic looking dancers. However, belly dancing has attracted followers all over the world, not least here in Scotland. Tonight, you can see it in action at B...
318 Whatever happened to the Beach - Part 2
Porty Podcast - February 03, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Just over three months ago, Storm Babet caused considerable damage across the East of Scotland. Although Portobello was sheltered from the worst effects of the storm to a certain extent, we still saw large swathes of the beach swept away, groynes left at crooked angles a...
317 Moreish TV - now on Apple TV
Porty Podcast - January 27, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutesSend us a Text Message. What did you do in lockdown? Well, one Porty couple set about starting their own TV show called Moreish TV. At first, it was found on YouTube but its growing popularity meant that it attracted attention not just from up and coming stars from a whole range of different me...
316 The Portobello Swim Centre: Edinburgh Leisure's CEO
Porty Podcast - January 20, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. Over the past few days, we’ve heard reports that, for instance, Portobello Swim Centre could be earmarked for closure. That was followed a statement from Edinburgh Leisure which insisted there had been misleading media articles regarding venue closures. The very idea tha...
315 Tills Bookshop And Café
Porty Podcast - January 13, 2024 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. It’s just over six months since Tills and Company arrived in Portobello High Street. It’s more than just a second-hand bookshop, but a place where you can meet friends over a coffee or spend time reading or quietly meditating. It’s taken a while to reach the management f...
314 Cinderella
Porty Podcast - December 02, 2023 07:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Panto is back at Portobello Town Hall! Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it certainly is! The new production of Cinderella is brought to us by Stage Door Entertainment, the same company that produced the highly successful ‘Oliver’ last month. Rehearsals are now under way in the Tow...
313 Sopwith Strutter and Ellie Carter
Porty Podcast - November 25, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. Over the past quarter of a century, a group of men, aged between 65 and 100, have been taking on a labour of love to recreate a unique piece of aviation history – building from scratch a replica of the WW1 fighter, the Sopwith Strutter. Today, it’s the only one of its ty...
312 Herstory of Portobello
Porty Podcast - November 18, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. There are several blue or black plaques to famous men in Portobello – from Hugh Miller to William Russell Flint to Harry Lauder. However, there’s only one to a woman – Helen Hopekirk, a talented musician who was born here, emigrated to America and was celebrated in her d...
311 Keeping Porty Neat and Tidy
Porty Podcast - November 11, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. When graffiti appears in Porty, a small band of people from Keep Porty Tidy are on hand to remove it. This small group also carry out gardening in public spaces around our community and well as keeping the benches in the public parks looking fresh and new. In today’s epi...
310 Where's the Beach Gone?
Porty Podcast - November 04, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. It was quite a shock to discover just how much sand had been stripped from Porty Beach after Storm Babet had passed through. The damage done was the main topic of conversation at this week’s meeting of Portobello Community Council. There are lots of questions that still ...
309 Tales from the Witches Sabbath
Porty Podcast - October 21, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. It will soon be Halloween. In the imagination of some, it’s a time of witches, warlocks and things that go bump in the night. For others, it’s a time when children go guising in the streets offering (to use the American expression) tricks or treats. But it’s also the tim...
308 First Ceilidh in Porty Town Hall
Porty Podcast - October 14, 2023 06:00 - 14 minutesSend us a Text Message. Life is definitely returning to Portobello Town Hall. There’s a fund raising ceilidh at the end of the month. There’s a production of the musical ‘Oliver’ coming early in November, And yes, there will be a panto this year –Cinderella – which will run from the end of Nove...
308 Pochle - the Spirit of Stolen Apples
Porty Podcast - October 07, 2023 06:00 - 7 minutesSend us a Text Message. If you go to the Porty Market in Brighton Park today, look out for a stand selling bottles of a drink called Pochle. It’s the name chosen by the man who’s making Scottish Calvados or cider brandy or eau d vie from our excess apples. Rather than see them go to waste, Chri...
306 Assassins Kickboxing and the World Championships
Porty Podcast - September 30, 2023 06:00 - 7 minutesSend us a Text Message. For Edinburgh Assassins Kickboxing Club, this has been a year of celebrations. This is their 30th Anniversary – and, for most of that time, they trained at Portobello Town Hall. They had to find new premises when the Hall closed four years ago. They’ve just enjoyed consi...
305 Fitnessthon For Morocco
Porty Podcast - September 23, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Late at night on the 8th of September, a devastating earthquake stuck part of Morocco. Its effects were felt across a large part of the country. While it made the headlines for a few days, it was eclipsed when a flood swept through communities in Libya, killing thousands...
304 Porty BikeFest '23 and the Bike Library
Porty Podcast - September 16, 2023 06:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. If you remember the Porty BikeFest from last year, well it’s back. This afternoon, parts of Bath Street and Mentone Avenue will be closed off to cars so that all kinds of interesting two and three wheeled vehicles can be shown off and tried. And it’s also been an excitin...
303 Porty Book Festival '23
Porty Podcast - September 09, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Portobello Book Festival may be next month – but tickets are already going fast. It runs from the 5th to the 8th of October and in total there are 26 talks and discussions to attract your interest… everything from paddleboards to playwriting. Founded in 2008, the fes...
302 Art Walk 23
Porty Podcast - September 02, 2023 06:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Art Walk Porty started yesterday. Under the title of ‘Vessel’, it feels like it has a larger, more ambitious programme than in the past – to get the most from it you need four leaflets. And, as David Calder found out from curator Rosy Naylor, the bounds of this year...
301 Pamoja Fashion
Porty Podcast - June 24, 2023 06:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. On the first Saturday of the month, you may have seen a poster outside St John’s Church in Brighton Place. It reads ‘Pamoja Fashion’ and points you towards the church hall where a market selling clothes, jewellery and other accessories is being held. It’s raising money f...
300 Mount Lodge Green - another community success
Porty Podcast - June 10, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Last week, we heard about the news that the keys to the Town Hall has been passed to the community. But that’s not the only Council asset that’s been handed over recently to a different, smaller, less-well known part of the Portobello community. It’s a fairly small plot ...
299 The Town Hall is Ours
Porty Podcast - June 03, 2023 06:00 - 19 minutesSend us a Text Message. Portobello Town Hall has been lying empty for almost exactly four years. We’ve reported on the work done by the local community and Portobello Central in particular to bring it back into use. Now, the dream is reality. https://www.portobellocentral.org/
298 Tandem Against Suicide - Xani Byrne's Challenge
Porty Podcast - May 26, 2023 23:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. On Monday morning, a group of cyclists will leave the Cake Stand in Straiton Place Park on what, for one of them, will be an epic journey. Leading them will be Xani Byrne, brother of Alice Byrne, who disappeared on New Year’s Day in 2022. Neither she nor her body were fo...
297 Porty Regatta 23
Porty Podcast - May 19, 2023 23:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. For much of the past three years, activity on the waters off Porty Beach have been relatively quiet. The pandemic and lockdown meant that, for a long time, people couldn't take part in rowing or sailing, for instance. And any regattas, where clubs came together to race, ...
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