This week we are in the Petersfield Square and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Petersfield came out in style to support the eagerly awaited Christmas Light switch on to start the 2024 Festivities.

There's something special about this time of year. Join Julie Butler and Abi Phillips and other members of the Shine team to find to hear what Christmas means to Petersfield.

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This week Laura is surrounded by musical instruments – and that’s because she's in a recording studio. Something is 900 years old – but not the building she's in!

There is a concert on Saturday, which kicks of a year of celebrations called Steep 900. Yes, it’s 900 years since All Saints’ Church in Steep was inaugurated, and as the exact date isn’t known, we’re going to spend a whole year celebrating.

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This week we’re surrounded by autumnal loveliness at Rogate Pumpkin Patch.

Now, you might think jac o’lanterns and all things Halloween might be a recent thing, but we will find out the history of the farm at Rogate, what happens during the short pumpkin season – and what happens in between.

Join Laura Sheppard and Andy Catto at Rogate Pumpkin Patch in this week's Ppod.

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This week we’re at Petersfield’s Festival Hall at the East Hampshire Dementia Festival.

This is the fourth dementia festival, which is now an annual event. The idea for it originally came from Dementia Champion and Coronation Volunteer Champion, Jeff Williams. Jeff passed away shortly after last year’s Dementia Festival, but his legacy continues.

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This week's PPod comes from the Petersfield Square. We're at March for Men with Kev raising awareness of Prostate Cancer and what you can do about it.

The walk is into the second year all in memory of local man, Kevan Birkett. We talk to Claire, his wife, and the organisers, many of the walkers and local businesses that came out in support of the event.

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This week we’re at the Petersfield Fringe Festival at Churcher’s College. We talk to organisers, performers and audiences at the greatest fringe festival outside Edinburgh.

The P pod is presented by Laura Sheppard and Phill Humphries

Tuesdays at 9, Wednesdays at 7 and always online at shineradio.uk

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In this edition of the P pod Laura Sheppard and Phil Humphries find out what happens in Stroud, just outside Petersfield - and what exactly are the Stroud Revels.

It’s the P pod: always on location and on air every Tuesday at 9, Wednesday at 7 and always online at shineradio.uk

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Laura Sheppard and Phill Humphries find themselves in the rural location of Wyld's Christmas Tree Farm - in the middle of summer. And it's not just Christmas trees. They find out all about farm life, and what else happens between Decembers on the farm.

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