This podcast features the lives of the people who live in Church Stretton, Little Stretton, All Stretton and surrounding villages in the Shropshire Hills. It's a tourist area and we welcome visitors from all over the world to enjoy The Shropshire Hills AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). You will find our guests not only on top of the Long Mynd, but nursing a craft beer in the warm glow of a pub fire or having reasonably priced coffee and cake in one of the handful of tea rooms in town.

We are the first village podcast and the first community podcast in the world. We aim to be fun, entertaining and informative without any ranting, rudeness or intolerance. We're non-political, non-religious and self-funded. When deciding upon content, we prioritse the quirky, unusual, interesting, funny and curious. We get asked by many local organisations to feature their upcoming events and good causes but we're not a public service broadcaster and just because something is important, doesn't mean it's interesting. Because we are self-funded, we only publish what we find interesting and it turns out that many other people find it interesting too.

We are village people. We want to give a voice to the villages in the Shropshire Hills so we have a dedicated monthly section which we call The Village Hall Reports. Here, several members of village hall committees in the area will give us a report of what;s been going on and what's upcoming. This helps publicise the events in these villages, increases engagement and improves the economy of these remote rural communities.

We would like other towns and villages to join our movement, wherever you are, get in touch and let's get started.

We're independent of any organisation and published every fortnight with bonus long form interviews once a month.

Enjoy it, subscribe and follow to help us get visibility and grow this podcast. We have a website http://thestrettonspod.com/.

Producers

Sian Lovegrove, Pete Johnson

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