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Malcolm Mardon: 50 Years of Hospital Radio (opens the original)
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Malcolm Mardon, chairman of Hospital Radio Exeter, tells the story of a station that has been on air since 1974, and reflects on fifty-one years of walking hospital wards, collecting requests, and keeping patients company. Hospital Radio Exeter was founded by police inspector Terry Roberts, who had spent years trying to persuade hospital management to give it a go. When they finally said yes, the station started with five hundred pounds from the League of Friends, a small mixing desk, two microp
Ellie Taylor: What Exeter's Oldest Community Charity Has Learnt About Lasting Change (opens the original)
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Ellie Taylor, Chief Executive of Exeter Community Initiatives, traces the thirty-year history of one of the city's oldest charities and explains why the most important outcomes of its work are often the ones that never make it into a spreadsheet. ECI was founded in 1993 by a coalition of city centre churches responding to homelessness and poverty. Its first two major projects -- what became St Petrock's and Turntable -- grew into independent charities that are still operating today. ECI now runs
Nick Hall: Music in Devon Initiative and The Devon Music Scene (opens the original)
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Nick Hall and Dave Knox of Music in Devon Initiative (MIDI) share the story of a decade spent building the infrastructure Devon's music scene never had, and reveal the two city centre spaces that are changing what's possible for musicians in Exeter. Nick came to Devon via Somerset, London's Britpop years, and three years living in Senegal, where he absorbed West African music and met his partner. Back in Exmouth, he built a following playing at pubs and festivals, and set up MIDI in 2016. Dave a
Jen Harris: Leading the Cloth Nappy Revolution (opens the original)
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Jen Harris, founder of the Baby Room on Paris Street, traces an eighteen-year journey from a cold scout hut in Heavitree to one of the most essential community spaces in Exeter, and makes an unanswerable case for what new families need. Jen arrived in Exeter at sixteen and has never really left. When her first daughter was born in 2008, she wanted to use cloth nappies and asked the council about a job she had seen advertised in Scotland. They offered her a voluntary role instead. She said fine,
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