In The Cooler, Interviews

Cheltenham Festival Week..Tuesday 12th – Friday 15th March 2019

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Cheltenham Festival racegoers will know the sequence of events  well enough

Tuesday 12th           Champion Day
Wednesday 13th     Ladies Day
Thursday 14th         St Patrick’s Thursday
Friday 15th              Gold Cup Day.

Listeners to NCCR’s “In the Cooler” may well remember the interviews with Sophia Dale (Cheltenham Racecourse Communications officer, and Champion Hurdle(Alderbrook) and Gold Cup(Master Oats) winning trainer (1995).. Kim Bailey.

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(PSL with Kim Bailey, July 2018)

So, here is another opportunity to hear those interviews…

First..Sophia Dale…

Next: Kim Bailey

 

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NCCR “In The Cooler” 7-9 pm Friday 8th March 2019(www.nccr.co.uk)

Scheduled interviews as follows for this Friday’s show.. in the studio blues player,Mark Harrison two from ..Blockley Amateur Dramatics’ Robert Willott & Jo Knight will tell us all about Alice in Wonderland….Verity White ..a rock band front woman from Cheltenham..and a call from a BBC Gloucester legend,Steve Knibbs…

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Mark Harrison,Verity White, Steve Knibbs & Alice!!

 

Be sure to tune in..Friday,8th March 2019,7-9pm NCCR www.nccr.co.uk

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“In The Cooler” 22nd February 2019. The Show!!

Hello!! If you missed the show this evening (Friday), you can catch the repeat on Sunday morning from 8-10am…or, if you can’t wait..use the Listen Again feature..

We enjoyed talking with Paul Mayhew-Archer (co-writer Vicar of Dibley), and currently touring with “Incurable Optimist”, courtesy, as he says..”of Parkinson’s!”

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Read about the tour HERE  

Paul Mayhew-Archer’s “Incurable Optimist” show..Get your tickets from Chipping Norton theatre box office (30th March ) Rondo Theatre Bath box office (1st May ) and Old Fire station Oxford (6th 7th June )

Harry Charnley encourages us to get to the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham to enjoy “Fly Eddie Fly”..a musical about and starring as himself in the title role, Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, Cheltenham’s own Olympian.

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Maggie Cole called in to invite us to the Evesham and District Music Society’s concert featuring the Trio Goya…..

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Maggie Cole – Fortepiano. Kati Debretzeni – Violin. Sebastian Comberti – Cello

On the night we didn’t get time to listen to the Richard Jobson  interview..On Saturday 23rd , SKIDS are at the  Guildhall , Gloucester.(See their other dates HERE)

Listen to our interview……

And Evelyn Laurie explains how she got into music and a singing career..

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Listen to the conversation we had…..

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“In The Cooler” Friday 15th February 2019

On Friday evening’s programme, we are in for a delicious treat!

First off, we shall be chatting with Ken Norman, who describes himself as the Head Shepherd of Flock Comedy.

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Flock Comedy? Ken will fill in the details, but here’s a clue….

You’ve heard of a “pop-up” restaurant, well we’re a “pop-up”comedy club. We bring the lights, sound, stage and entertainment to your venue, whether that’s a village hall, a marquee, the back room of a club or even a conference hall.

We help good causes raise dosh through the medium of laughter. We run comedy tents at beer festivals and music festivals and we provide comedians for corporate events too. (From Flock Comedy website)

Paganini Caprice 24..with Commander -in-Chief and Craig Ogden

In the studio Berit Hagen (aka Commander-in-Chief) will  be telling us about her career..and there’s a lot to share!! And playing!!

In 2015 and 2017 she was an expert judge and vocal coach on Norway’s biggest Saturday night TV show “Battle of the Stars. “ with almost a million viewers.

And this is a review of her latest album:

“This album just has to be heard – by everyone! It is a masterpiece of an album. She is a talent of a generation!A once in a lifetime musician!” (Rick Palin, Skyfire Records/Firebrand Radio)

Berit Hagen aka Commander-in-Chief

 

So, be sure to listen in Friday 7-9pm “In the Cooler” www.nccr.co.uk

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“Cooler Classics” Monday 11th February 2019 (Rpt Sunday 17th February 2019 7-8am.)

This week’s “Cooler Classics ”  concludes the “Entartete Music” (or “Degenerate Music, according to the Nazis) that came out of the Holocaust. Kenneth Woods, principal conductor with the English Symphony Orchestra, continues with his selection and observations..and includes music by Hans Gal, Ernst Krenek and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

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Hans Gal, Ernst Krenek,Erich Wolfgang Korngold & Kenneth Woods.

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Monday 11pm – Midnight.     www.nccr.co.uk