Latest Portobello Podcast Episodes
296 Overton and McCann - the EP
Porty Podcast - April 29, 2023 06:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. Life for musicians has been tough over the last three years. The Pandemic locked them out of all of the venues they’d played to entertain their audiences. Some of them however saw it as an opportunity, perhaps not at first, to think about their music and to change direct...
295 Access Parkour - on Porty Beach
Porty Podcast - April 22, 2023 06:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. There seem to be a huge number of videos showing people doing astonishing feats – climbing buildings, running precariously along railings, leaping across streams. It’s all part of a relatively new sport called Parkour. Part of its popularity seems to come from the fact t...
294 Atlantic Body and Soul - a look back!
Porty Podcast - April 15, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesCast your minds back to the turn of the year. Five men from Portobello’s Eastern Amateur Rowing Club were thousands of miles away from their families, in the middle of the Atlantic in quite a small rowing boat taking part in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge. It took them 39 days and 8hours but it...
294 Atlantic Body and Soul - Reflections on Achievement!
Porty Podcast - April 15, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutesSend us a Text Message. Cast your minds back to the turn of the year. Five men from Portobello’s Eastern Amateur Rowing Club were thousands of miles away from their families, in the middle of the Atlantic in quite a small rowing boat taking part in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge. It took them ...
293 Car Share
Porty Podcast - April 08, 2023 06:00 - 16 minutesSend us a Text Message. Walk down any street – not just in Portobello – but almost any town in the UK and you’ll see row after row of cars, mostly just sitting there, hardly used. The Western World is obsessed with private car ownership. They’re a status symbol. And yet, cars – and road transpo...
292 Timebank at 10
Porty Podcast - March 31, 2023 12:00 - 13 minutesSend us a Text Message. Today, the Portobello Timebank marks its 10th Anniversary with a fund-raising event this afternoon in the Baptist Church Hall. They do hold regular such sessions there – but this one is just a little special – as David Calder found out from some of the members: https://...
291 Ghost Tours of Portobello
Porty Podcast - March 25, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. Portobello has a rich and varied history, dating back about 300 years. And before that, the Figgate Whins were known as the haunt of smugglers and outlaws. So it’s perhaps unsurprising that there are stories of mysterious happenings in parts of the town. But from next we...
290 What Makes a Community like Portobello?
Porty Podcast - March 18, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutesSend us a Text Message. Portobello and its sense of community is attracting the attention of the academic world. The latest to be looking at us is a fourth year undergraduate who’s studying geography at Edinburgh University. We will be the subject of his final dissertation and at least some of ...
289 Portobello Town Hall - Open the Doors
Porty Podcast - March 11, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. You may have seen the posters about what’s happening at the Town Hall. You may have spoken to people about how the building will be used when it becomes a community asset. You may have your own ideas about events you’d like to see – or even put on – there. But right now,...
288 Tales of the Gallus Women
Porty Podcast - March 04, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. Next Saturday, a group of storytellers from around the country are gathering at Bellfield for an event next Saturday evening entitled “Tales of the Gallus Women”. These “Gallus Women” are those who, in their day, made a significant impact on their communities but whose l...
287 20 Minute Neighbourhood? Consultation
Porty Podcast - February 25, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. In the last few days, the City of Edinburgh Council has launched a consultation about how to turn Portobello into a 20 minute neighbourhood. Over the next six week, local people will have the chance to express their views on how to make local services – shops, cafes, the...
286 The Story of Early Radio
Porty Podcast - February 18, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. This coming Thursday, the Portobello Timebank has arranged a talk at Bellfield to mark to 100th anniversary of the public broadcasting in the UK, which took place at the end of last year. They’ve enlisted the help of Tom Stevenson, a retired professor of Microelectronic ...
285 Alison Jeffrey Thom - Volunteer Coordinator at Bellfield
Porty Podcast - February 11, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. The Portobello Community Hub at Bellfield depends on volunteers. Some of them get involved with single projects, other make a regular long term commitment, or even just offer to help as needed. The tasks they take on vary from being Action Porty Board members, to assisti...
284 The Magic of Portobello
Porty Podcast - February 04, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutesSend us a Text Message. Portobello is a magic place - quite literally! In Richard Wiseman, we have a magician whose videos on YouTube have spell-bound people from around the world (over 600 million times he says). He’s performed at the Fringe and was a Fringe Festival Director. He’s also fascin...
283 Maya and the Whale
Porty Podcast - January 28, 2023 07:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. A new play for schools is about to start touring over the next couple of months. It’s called ‘Maya and the Whale’ and it stars Hazel Darwin-Clements who also wrote it. The production is part of a programme run by Theatre in Schools Scotland. The organisation works with t...
282 Dook - Soap Maker
Porty Podcast - January 21, 2023 07:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. Thinking back to the Festive Season, cosmetics appear to have been popular gifts. And soap is one of those products that seems to have to ability to keep on giving throughout the year – or rather, good quality soaps. If you do your shopping in Portobello, you may never h...
281 Malecon Matinee
Porty Podcast - January 14, 2023 07:00 - 12 minutesSend us a Text Message. There will shortly be an unusual dance event in Porty. It’s called the Malecon Matinee and will be held next Sunday afternoon. What’s behind the name? Well, it’s the creation of local people who’ve fallen in love with the music and dance of Cuba – and the Malecon is the...
280 50 Swims for Maggie's
Porty Podcast - January 07, 2023 07:00 - 14 minutesSend us a Text Message. Happy New Year and welcome back to another season of The Porty Podcast. Have you ever walked along Porty Prom and watched the open-water swimmers on a cold January day braving the freezing air before walking into the cold sea? There’s a bit of madness on New Year’s Day ...
279 End of Year Review
Porty Podcast - December 10, 2022 00:00 - 25 minutesSend us a Text Message. It may only be the second week of December but the Porty Podcast is taking an extended break until the New Year. However, it’s been an interesting year. Both Hazel Darwin-Clements and David Calder have met lots of interesting people with interesting stories to tell. So w...
278 Cllr Tim Jones - Scottish Conservative
Porty Podcast - December 03, 2022 07:00 - 20 minutesSend us a Text Message. Today, we meet the last of the four councillors we elected back in May. Conservative Tim Jones mounted a tightly focused campaign here in Portobello. He wanted to see the re-opening of Brunstane Road, the removal of some of the Spaces for People protected cycle lanes, an...
277 Councillor Alys Mumford - Scottish Green Party
Porty Podcast - November 26, 2022 07:00 - 22 minutesSend us a Text Message. In this the third of our interviews with our local councillors, I’ve been speaking to Alys Mumford from the Scottish Green Party. The Greens had a particularly successful election, doubling their numbers from five to ten. All of the councillors I’ve spoken to so far have...
276 Miss Morag - retires?
Porty Podcast - November 19, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutesSend us a Text Message. You may have heard that Lothian Dance Academy is under new management. For the last thirty-three years, Miss Morag – Morag Philips – has been the driving force behind the school. But before that, she had a thriving career, travelling the world in a wide range of shows in...
275 Cllr Jane Meagher
Porty Podcast - November 12, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutesSend us a Text Message. As we know, the new council has been in place for almost six months. Three of our elected members are new to the role. So how are they settling into the job? In this second episode, Porty podcast Producer David Calder met Labour’s Jane Meagher
274 Retrofit Roadshow
Porty Podcast - November 09, 2022 07:00 - 15 minutesSend us a Text Message. Many homes in Portobello date back to the Victorian or Edwardian eras. Those in the centre of Edinburgh are much, much older than that. They were fit for purpose in those days – but, with climate change a growing issue along with ever increasing energy prices, they are n...
273 Screen Porty@
Porty Podcast - November 05, 2022 07:00 - 11 minutesSend us a Text Message. There have been posters appearing around Portobello advertising the screening of a film called "Rory's Way" starring Brian Cox. It's the first step in the path towards creating a local community film club here. It's a project which David Calder discovered when he met Mon...
272 Cllr Kate Campbell
Porty Podcast - October 29, 2022 06:00 - 23 minutesSend us a Text Message. The new council has been in place for almost six months, so how are the new councillors settling into the job. Three of them were elected for the first time back in May and, in this short series between now and the end of the year, we’ll hear from them all. In this first...
Trudy and Me - one week to go
Porty Podcast - October 22, 2022 10:00 - 44 secondsSend us a Text Message. There's just over a week to go before the crowd fund closes. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/trudy-me-a-picture-book-celebrating-difference
271 Dog A.I.D.
Porty Podcast - October 22, 2022 06:00 - 9 minutesSend us a Text Message. Physical disabilities can be very frustrating. It can lead to a loss of confidence, to the feeling that your boundaries are much more limited. For those who depend on a wheelchair, many come to think they’ve somehow become less visible; when out with a partner, even frie...
270 Under One Roof
Porty Podcast - October 15, 2022 06:00 - 12 minutesSend us a Text Message. Scotland’s architectural heritage is well known and respected. The large number of tenements you find all over the Central Belt in particular is an important part of that. But therein lies a problem. Who is responsible for looking after them? Each flat is separately owne...
269 Trudy and Me
Porty Podcast - October 08, 2022 06:00 - 10 minutesSend us a Text Message. There’s a beautiful picture book for children called ‘Trudy and Me – a Picture Book Celebrating Difference’. Its heroine is a young girl, Trudy - born with Downs Syndrome, and her relationship with her brother Patrick as they play on the beach at Portobello. The book how...
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