interview

Our Podcast’s Fifth Year Anniversary
February 08, 202400:36:19

Our Podcast’s Fifth Year Anniversary

In this special fifth anniversary episode, the Fun with Bells Podcast celebrates by turning the tables on host and producer Cathy Booth, as she takes her turn on the other end of the microphone and is grilled by team member Emily Roderick. Emily digs into the background to the podcast, its aims, and the entire podcast p...

David Smith: A Bell Ringing Tutor’s Uplifting Global Perspective
January 11, 202400:35:19

David Smith: A Bell Ringing Tutor’s Uplifting Global Perspective

In this episode, David Smith makes a much-welcome return to the podcast for another conversation with host Cathy Booth that’s brimming with insight. Find out about about the differences between ringing associations in the UK and those in the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. With David’s global ringing...

Ringing in Redundant Churches - part 2
December 08, 202200:23:58

Ringing in Redundant Churches - part 2

This second sojourn into ringing in redundant churches sees show host Cathy Booth discovering two more exciting projects where ringers have joined forces with the Churches Conservation Trust. When someone suggests you take the keys and check on the bells in a redundant church, big things can happen. Such an invitation p...

Ringing in Redundant Churches - part 1
November 10, 202200:25:59

Ringing in Redundant Churches - part 1

What do you get when you cross The Churches Conservation Trust with bell ringers? Show host Cathy Booth finds out, in the first of two special episodes. In this month’s show, Cathy meets Neil Skelton, David Bagley and Neil Dodge to discover what exciting projects can develop when ringers get involved in supporting h...

Mancroft Ringing Discovery Centre / Blue lines and pickled eggs
November 12, 202000:32:52

Mancroft Ringing Discovery Centre / Blue lines and pickled eggs

Home of the first true peal, St Peter Mancroft in Norwich is now home to the brilliant Mancroft Ringing Discovery Centre. Podcast host Cathy Booth catches up with Simon Rudd and Nikki Thomas to find out what’s been happening. Well, there’s been so much going on it’s hard to know where to start! Trainin...

Ringing Remembers project co-ordination
May 09, 201900:39:11

Ringing Remembers project co-ordination

'Recruit 1400 new ringers to remember those who lost their lives in the first World War' – this was the mission that Vicki Chapman chose to accept and the rest, as they say, is history. Vicki talks podcast host Cathy Booth through her involvement in the overwhelmingly successful Ringing Remembers campaig...

Tower Grabbing
April 25, 201900:21:07

Tower Grabbing

Graham stirring a newly cast bell at the foundry Graham on a group tour in Dallas In this episode Graham Nabb introduces Fun with Bells podcast host Cathy Booth to one of the most English of pursuits - tower grabbing. Graham is the ideal guide to the uninitiated, having notched up the amazing total of 57...