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The Strettons Podcast

The Strettons Podcast

Von: Sian Lovegrove Pete Johnson
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This podcast features the lives of the people who live in Church Stretton and villages in the Shropshire Hills.


It's a tourist area and we welcome visitors from all over the world to enjoy the Shropshire Hills National Landscape. You'll find our guests not only on top of the Long Mynd, but nursing a craft beer in a snug country pub or having coffee and cake in one of the tea rooms in town. Millions of fell-runners, walkers, hikers, campers, dog-walkers flock to the Church Stretton area every year.


Agriculture is an important part of the economy here too and we talk to farmers and others born and raised in the area, not just about farming but what it was like to grow up here. We collect stories of the people who made this area what it is today, the characters who inhabited the village pubs, stories of terrible winters and childhood activities in the fields and streams around the Long Mynd. This is an important archive project for this tiny corner of South Shropshire.



We are the first village podcast in the world and would like to hear from listeners across the world who enjoy hearing voices from The Strettons. We are village people and we want to give a voice to the villages of the Shropshire Hills.



We're independent of any organisation and publish episodes every Tuesday.



We have a website http://thestrettonspod.com/.


Producers

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

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  • Evelyn Vaughan of Edgton

    Evelyn Vaughan of Edgton
    Jan 20 2026

    Sian talks to Evelyn Vaughan from Edgton who still farms age 88. Evelyn talks about her childhood, the loss of her mother and husband and a lost opportunity to become a professional singer. Her animals have inflicted numerous injuries on her but she still love them unconditionally and if you want more stories about the winter of 1947, you won’t be disappointed!

    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

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    31 Min.
  • Merle Wilson of Acton Scott

    Merle Wilson of Acton Scott
    Jan 13 2026

    Acton Scott is more than a working Victorian museum, it's a living breathing tight-knit village. Merle Wilson describes growing up without basic amenities, the death of her mother and farming with her father. She paints a picture of a supportive vibrant community in which people look after for each other and work to continue the spirit of the community.



    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    25 Min.
  • Sin eaters and hedgehogs

    Sin eaters and hedgehogs
    Jan 6 2026

    Happy new year from Sian and Pete. This week we’ve been stroking hedgehogs at a rescue centre in Edgton and been to see the monument to the last sin eater in the churchyard at Ratlinghope. We look back and forward to 2026 and see what events are coming up in the next two weeks.


    Hedgehog Rescue

    Martin And Tanis Jordan, email tmjordan559@gmail.com


    Midland Gliding Club cafe franchisee enquiries

    Tim Murphy email secretary@midlandgliding.club


    Timings

    Last Sin Eater 02:17

    Hedgehog Rescue 11:10

    What’s On 23:21


    If you know someone we should speak to for the podcast, please get in touch with us.


    Find us online

    https://thestrettonspod.com/


    email us: thestrettonspod@gmail.com


    Support the podcast https://buymeacoffee.com/thestrettonspod


    Producers

    Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    27 Min.
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