Fresh back from six months in South-East Asia, Rotarian and professional photographer Charlotte Gale engaged Brigantes members with an interactive insight into her travels, local culture, traditions, history and the amazing APOPO land mine rats. Charlotte spent four of her…
Brigantes member Moya Prichard was our castaway this time, prompted by Guy Wilson standing in For Lauren Laverne who was unavailable. Moya took us through her eventful life thus far, taking in marriage to Keith, living in Wiltshire and Jersey…
A diver working on the wreck of the Gribshunden Forget the Mary Rose and the Titanic. Now there’s the Gribshunden and it lies in shallow waters just off the southern coast of Sweden. It was a sort of floating palace…
It’s a basic fact that we all die. How we die is another matter. Richard Cyster, a volunteer at St Michael’s Hospice in Harrogate talked to us about St Michael’s, established in 1987, and about the hospice movement generally. We…
If you’re reading this – and we hope you are – well done! You’ve logged onto our new website. We hope you like it and that it gives you all you want to find out about Brigantes Rotary. It was…
Bernard Mageean is Chairman of Harrogate Hospital Radio. Founded in 1977 in the days of vinyl and turntables, it now has 50 members and 30 presenters, broadcasts on 95.3m FM, is regulated by Ofcom and is a registered charity. It’s…
Kit Lacey, Revolutionary Knaresborough Rotary Club had a great idea. They found some young businesspeople in the town who wanted to find a really good social project and run with it. Kit Lacey told us about the new group, the…
Rotary is a worldwide organisation but you don’t necessarily appreciate what that means until you see it in action. Brian Souter from Knaresborough Rotary Club spoke to us about how, after the devastation of the 2004 tsunami, Rotary rolled up…
Susan Rogers came to talk to us about North Star, a Rotary membership expansion project which started last year. It’s no secret that, although some Rotary clubs continue to thrive, others are facing a decline in membership and North Star…
Shakespeare’s Local November’s Book Club was in festive mood with Christmas hats, crackers and bad jokes. We were chatting about ‘Shakespeare’s Local’ in which beer writer extraordinaire Pete Brown describes the George inn in Southwark. Never mind about the fact…