On this page, you have the opportunity to listen online to our four most recent weekly programmes and our most recent Quarterly Magazine programme as distributed to our regular listeners. You can also hear previous Interviews, Nature Notes and the Talking Bookshelf series (audio book reviews) as well as various other special items – just click on the heading and select which one you wish to hear.

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Recent Editions

• Quarterly Magazine - Winter
  
  
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• 14 December 2024 - Red Saturn
  
  
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• 07 December 2024 - Saturn
  
  
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• 23 November 2024 - News Extra
  
  
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Archives

Sounds Of Wildlife    Sound recordings by members of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society

St Albans Museum+Gallery     Articles about St Albans Museum+Gallery

Tom McNab     Articles by Tom McNab

Interviews     Interviews with a wide variety of local people covering an equally wide range of topics.

Talking Bookshelf      Reviews and discussions of audio-book titles –some new releases and a few old favourites – including extracts from the recordings by kind permission of Calibre Audio (www.calibre.org.uk).

Nature Notes    The Herts Advertiser’s nature correspondent Rupert Evershed reads his monthly column.

A County at War: Life on the Home Front in Hertfordshire    Howard Guard talks with Jill Burridge in two sessions about his film, ‘A County at War’, made in 2014 to mark the start of the First World War and the impact on the local community as well as the tragic losses by The Hertfordshire Regiment at the Battle of Passchendaele (The Third Battle of Ypres) in 1917.  Includes extracts from the film.

Community Matters    Interviews with a wide range of local charities and volunteer groups –  a joint venture with our local community radio station, Radio Verulam (92.6 FM – www.radioverulam.com).

Me & My Job    Interviews with local people about themselves and their work.

Ver Poets    Poems written and read by the local Ver Poets group.

St Albans Cathedral   Stephen de Silva, an award-winning Cathedral Guide and former Cathedral Warden, has recorded many conversations with Rob Pearman about the past and present of this iconic building. This archive of discussions about St Albans Cathedral also includes a conversation with the organiser of the Cathedral’s 2018 commemoration of the end of WW1 (‘Poppyfields’).

Three Religions- One God? Three local community leaders – who worked together in the Fleetville area of St Albans over some years – discuss the similarities and differences between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Writers’ Forum     A collection of articles by local writers.