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Porty Podcast

David Calder, Alan Hepburn, Erin Menzies, Lottie Meier, Lottie Clement, Josie McLeister

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The Porty Podcast is a community project, highlighting events in and around Edinburgh's seaside - Portobello! It's a very active area with sailing, rowing and kayaking on the Forth, a vibrant artistic community and a strong sense of identity which makes it slightly separate from the other parts of Edinburgh. Image credit Nicola Dunlop
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Memories and stories from North Edinburgh Dementia Care’s Seagrove Centre. North Edinburgh Dementia Care is a leading independent charity that provides day care services to people living with dementia. We provide support, activities and a lunch to our clients, Monday to Saturday. We hear so many great tales from the folk that visit us. You can hear some of them here. Also a bit about our organisation, our work and dementia it’s self.
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The Interiors Podcast

Tanya Neufeld Flanagan

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An interior design show aimed to help you elevate your space in conversations with industry professionals in Ireland. Hosted by Tanya Neufeld Flanagan, expat and marketing exec turned interior designer based in Dublin, Ireland where she works at Eilish Rickard Interiors.
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The show that's dedicated to helping aspiring home cooks grow their skills and confidence in the kitchen so they can start cooking up memories with their family and friends. Whether you want to learn to cook or just need some simple food inspiration, we will cover recipes, kitchen tools, and interviews with experts to help you on your home cooking journey! On Twitter at @TKCpodcast /Facebook at facebook.com/kitchencounterpodcast / Instagram at https://instagram.com/kitchencounterpodcast
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OXGANGS - A Capital Story describes what life was like for a boy growing up in 1960s Oxgangs on a council housing estate in the lea of the Pentland Hills. Told through a series of over two hundred stories it paints a picture of one family living alongside seven other families in an atypical ‘stair’ telling the everyday story of their lives – the story of the sixteen adults and twenty-five children who lived at 6 Oxgangs Avenue between the years 1958 and 1972.
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The global watch industry produces an estimated 1.2 billion units a year. With around, 7.5 billion people on the planet, that means that over a 6 and a half year period, enough are made for every one of us to go out and buy a brand new watch of our own. In reality, that’s not what happens. For starters, just because all these watches are being churned out, doesn't mean that anyone is actually buying them. Lots of people can’t understand why you would spend money on a wrist watch. After all, ...
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(Tropical) Heatwave - James White And The Blacks. In Front Of Me Now - Nada Surf Starting and Staring - Gustaf Soldier In The Army of One - Tom Mortello, Roman Morello Fight The Power - Public Enemy No Ashes - Waggabutt, Mille Jackson The Stand Up Comics Instructions - The Style Council. Wild in The Street - Garland Jefferies Fashion Week - Warmdus…
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Some of our favourite songs at Seagrove. Our favourite visiting musician and singer Stevie Q starts us off with The Northern lights of Old Aberdeen and I belong to Glasgow. Ricky gives us The Cappy Club song. No doubt remembered by many people who attended The Capitol Cinema in Leith as children. Margaret talks about dancing at Fairleys and Violet …
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Fantastic Leith tales from Daisy, born in 1931. From low flying German planes and a bomb dropping on Largo Place to the shops and business on the streets of her childhood. She tells us about her father being lost, presumed dead, at Dunkirk. Her first job as a cashier at Leith Provident COOP and working for Graham Tiso in the the early days of his o…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show. No.183. To listen or download, please click HERE. (1) Merry Go Round – Ellington. DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA. (2) MEFISTOFELE – Boito. L'Altra Notte. PIA TASSINARI. (3) The Whistling Stutterer – Snazelle. G.H.SNAZELLE. (4) Three Little Words – Ruby/Kalmar. ART TATUM. (5) SAMSON ET DALILA – Saint-Saens. Amour Viens Aider M…
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Send 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 lockdown and other issues which delayed the whole project. But…
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Send 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 - in this case the dualling of the A9 north of Perth. T…
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Send 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 put on its Annual Show. Thankfully, it did go ahead desp…
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Summer In The City - Quincy Jones Telephone Thing - The Fall E=MC2 (Redo) - Big Audio Dynamite Police On My Back - The Equals. The Look Of Love - ABC Lightning Blue Eyes - The Secret Machines 24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays Moonlight Lover - Ranking Ann, Mad Professor Paid In Full (Coldcut Remix) - Eric B & Rakim. Hard To Handle - Otis Redding…
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Send 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 with Bellfield. She came in to record an episode of the po…
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Send 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 feet wet not to mention a little chilly in the breeze, t…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show. No.182. To listen or download, please click HERE... (1) LES CONTES D'HOFFMAN – Offenbach. Belle Nuit. LAWRENCE TIBBETT & LUCREZIA BORI. (2) The Swing Song – Darewski/Wilmott. AIMÉE MAXWELL. (3) Imagine The Duchess's Feelings – Coward. NOEL COWARD. (4) THE DEMON – Rubinstein. Do Not Weep, Child. GEORGI BAKLANOV. (5) Ladi…
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Birds - The Big Mackoofy The Road Back - Trappers Cabin Something In The Air (American Psycho mix) - David Bowie Pretty Bad Blues - Ronnie Self Back In the Night - Dr Feelgood Musical Right - Sir Harry Lost In Music - The Fall I Know You Got Soul - Eric B & Rakim My Babe- Spoon (Adrian Sherwood Mix) The People Say - Steve Mason Starburster - Fontai…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No.181. To download or listen, please click HERE. (1) Mood Indigo – Ellington/Bigard/Mills. PAUL ROBESON. (2) IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA – Rossini. Largo Al Factotum. GIULIO FREGOSI. (3) Where Or When – Rodgers/Hart. LUCKY THOMPSON. (4) Nell – Bennett. BILLY BENNETT. (5) CARMEN – Bizet. Séguedille. CONCHITA SUPERVIA & GASTO…
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Seven Souls (Tim Simenon Mix) - Material feat: William S. Burroughs. Andy Warhol (Leroy Schlimm Edit) - David Bowie Lady Scarface - Lydia Lunch Ain't That Peculier - Fanny I Heard It Through The Grapevine The Slits Children Crying - The Congas Work Until I Die - S.G. Goodman The Sinking Feeling - The The Slow Death - Flamin’ Groovies I Love You Mar…
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Although born and brought up in Leith Gilbert spent many a happy school holiday on Shetland. Both his parents were from the island. We hear about life on a croft and shearing the sheep. He tells us of the trade in eggs from the Shetland to Leith- his father was an egg merchant. We hear about his time as a joiner and the condition of housing in Edin…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show. No.180. To listen or download, please click HERE. 1) LA GIOCONDA - Ponchielli. Cielo E Mar. JUSSI BJORLING. (2) Cocktails For Two – Coslow/Johnson. BENNY CARTER ORCH. (3) Looking For Mugs In The Strand - Formby. GEORGE FORMBY Sr. (4) IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA – Rossini. Largo Al Factotum. TITTA RUFFO. (5)Memories Of You –…
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Welcome back to another episode of The Interiors Podcast. Today, host Tanya Neufeld Flanagan had the pleasure of interviewing Shay Lally, QS and founder of Houses To Restore. Shay and Tanya got to discuss renovations and how to work around the challenges of the budgeting when you're considering buying a property. He also gives us an insight of how …
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Agnes and Eleanor give us their memories of childhood. Playing hide and seek in a scrapyard, taking on the notorious waves in Portobello outdoor pool, getting in to picture house with jeelie jars and long, happy summers at Forth in Lanarkshire. Agnes's widowed mum who worked hard to keep house and Eleanor's who had a rather grim sense of humour and…
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Boops (Here To Go) - Sly and Robbie Man Next Door (feat. Santigold) - U-Roy Johnny Too Bad Dub - John Martyn Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Canibals. Everlasting Love - The Love Affair Childlike Men - T.Rex The Scarecrow - Fink Floyd I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses Something Else - Eddie Cochran. Brand New Cadillac - The Clash Sad Affair - M…
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It's part three from Jeanette. We hear about her first flat on the wrong side of Elder Street, the side that was being demolished for the St James shopping centre. That's the one before the present the new one. Then we hear all about life on Piershill Square West. This is Jeanette so they are lively tales, told in an earthy way. Yes there is sweari…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No. 179. To listen or download, please click HERE... 1) Dr. Heckle And Mr. Jibe - McDonough. JACK TEAGARDEN. (2) Don't Go Out With Him Tonight - Godfrey. BILLY WILLIAMS. (3) LA FORZA DEL DESTINO – Verdi. O Tu Che In Seno. GIOVANNI MARTINELLI. (4) St. Louis Blues – Handy. JIMMY JOY ORCHESTRA. (5) Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up…
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Welcome back to The Interiors Podcast. In this episode, host interior designer Tanya Neufeld Flanagan discusses inspiration, aspiration, and Irish design with IMAGE Interiors magazine editor Megan Burns. We dive behind the scenes of this iconic biannual magazine and what makes it so special and influential in the Irish interiors scene. The IMAGE In…
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Send 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 to remind us all that longer nights and better weather…
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More tales more Doris, who we heard from in episode two of The Seagrove Sessions. We hear more about her job at W& AK Johnson, the printers. How her classrom was set up at Lochend primary school. Her job as an usherette at The State picture house, on Great Junction Street. Earning extra money for a Spanish holiday. Quite the adventure in 1959. For …
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Send 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 the grounds that surround the Hall, it’s a different s…
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Socks Drugs and Rock and Roll - Buffalo Daughter. Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley & The Wailers. Black Tie White Noise - David Bowie Take it Easy My Brother Charles - Som Tres What Is Wrong With Groovin’? - Letta Mbulu Y'all Don't Know What's Going On - Fares, Calexico Love Of The Common People - Nicky Thomas. Armageddon Time - Willie Williams Doing Ou…
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Send 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 Bellfield in the first of seven such events to be held t…
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Great memories from Betty, from the 1930s and 40s. Tenement life in The Pleasance, on the southside of Edinburgh, where her grandprents lived. Every child's dream- her granny had a sweet shop! Betty's evocative stories give a real sense of what it was like to be brought up in a close knit family before World War Two. Also what it was like to be one…
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Send 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 and damage done to the sea wall and Prom. At the time, l…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show. No. 178. To listen or download, please click HERE... (1) The Admiral's Broom – Bowen/Weatherly. PETER DAWSON. (2) At Last – Warren/Gordon. GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA. (3) Can Broadway Do Without Me? - Durante. JIMMY DURANTE. (4) It's a Sin To Tell A Lie - Mayhew. RUTH ETTING. (5) CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA – Mascagni. O Lola. ELV…
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Send 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 media but from ever more interesting, important and influ…
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In episode 16 we return to the vivid and entertaining story telling of Jeanette. This time its all about growing up in the mining village of Newton, Midlothian, in the 1950s and 60s. Childhood in the village, the mischief she got up to: including stealing cabbages and turnips from the farmer's fields and taking a dare to jump a barbed wire wall. Sh…
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Send 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 that a major Porty facility could be under threat was enou…
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Peace & Love - Dubmatix & Linval Thompson Come Together (Wheatherall MIX) - Primal Scream Sympathy For The Devil (Neptunes Mix) - The Rolling Stones Our Day Will Come - The Heptones Love and Hate in a Different Time - Gabriels Compared To What? - Eddie Harris Don't Challenge Me - Makers Something About England - The Clash Crossword Puzzle - Sly Sto…
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Send 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 for an interview to find out more about this business – …
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Episode 15 of the Seagrove Sessions is something a little different. It is an interview with a loved one of one of our members at The Seagrove Centre. Kathleen tells us about being a carer, not only for her husband Ronnie, but before him her mother. It is a candid, pragmatic and honest account of looking after a partner who is on their dementia jou…
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Welcome back to another episode of The Interiors Podcast. I want to share with you the enlightening journey we took in our latest episode titled "How to Craft Effortless Elegance for Your Lifestyle and Property" with the esteemed interior designer Po McNamee. We delved deep into the art of creating spaces that exude a unique blend of restrained gla…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No. 177. To listen or download, please click HERE... 1) LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX – Donizetti. O Luce Di Quest'Anima. JOSEFINA HUGUET. (2) Honky Tonk Train Blues – Lewis. MEADE 'LUX' LEWIS. (3) Nellie Dean - Armstrong. GERTIE GITANA. (4) Stormy Weather – Arlen/Koehler. CHARLIE & HIS ORCHESTRA. (5) Maria, Mari – Di Capua. INOCEN…
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Black History/TheWorld - Gil Scott-Heron H-A-T-E (Don't Live Here Anymore) - The Staple Singers Fascination - David Bowie Why Did You Do It? - Stretch The Message - Cymande Palestine - Benjamin Zephaniah Apocalypse - J Lloyd Ain't Nobody - Chaka Khan Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards, Siedah Garrett I Want You - Marvin Gaye Tutti Fruiti - Lit…
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Send 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 Town Hall itself and the show opens on the 8th of December…
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Earl Okin's Gramophone Show No.176. EUROPEAN TOUR EDITION. To listen or download, please click HERE... (1) Blue Drag - Myrow. QUINTET OF THE HOT CLUB OF FRANCE. (2) MADAMA BUTTERFLY – Puccini. Un Bel Di. EMMY DESTINN. (3) Wien, Du Stadt Meiner Traume - Sieczynski. RICHARD TAUBER. (4) Torna A Surriento – De Curtis/De Curtis. FERNANDO DE LUCIA. (5) L…
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Send 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 type flying in the world. The project has been described …
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In episode 14 we head to Lincolnshire and the great fishing port of grimsby. Judith tells us of her childhood and growing up in the town. From her father being a policeman and her uncle working in the docks, its a fascinating glimpse of bygone Grimsby. Memories of the sound of people going to work in their clogs or the waves of workers on their bik…
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Send 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 day as a composer and concert pianist. But surely she wa…
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In our latest episode, I had the opportunity to chat with Susan McGowan of Ashen and Cloud, a beacon of creativity in Ireland's interior design scene. We dove deep into a topic that many of you have pondered over – how to steer clear of a bland aesthetic in your living spaces. Susan’s insights are a goldmine for anyone yearning to infuse their home…
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Time - Alex Gopher The Champ - The Mohawks Christianity - The Wolfgang Press Old Records Playing For Me - Lose This Skin - The Clash This Charming Man - The Smiths Return Of Baron Samadi - Big Boss Man Moonlight Lover - Ranking Ann, Mad Professor Blood and Fire - Niney Let My People Go - Darondo Rockstar 11 - Z-Trip Soul To Rock And Roll - Run DMC …
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Send 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 episode, we meet two of them – Colin Cornwall and Chris Co…
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Episode 13 sees us listening in on a conversation between Judith, Doris, Vi, Joan and Eleanor. Lots of laughs and memories. Dance halls and waiting for an invitation to dance, the perils of Ice skating on speed skates, swimming at Portobello outdoor pool and its famous life guard and wave machine. Learning to swim in the North Sea! Playing in the s…
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Send 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 have to be answered – exactly how much damage has there…
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