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Maltings MattersMaltings Matters is Twenty-One today! 27th July 2025Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! Our 21st Episode! Is there something magic about the number 7 and it's multiples?We're on the verge of Wells-Next-The-Sea Carnival and what's more, Wells Maltings is 7 years old today. Simon reminisces abut the Opening of the Maltings on 27th July 2018, we announce the winner of last week's Competition (was it you?) and Mike takes his roving microphone into the Handa Gallery to talk to Liz Jenkins of Norfolk Creations who bring their exhibition of Norfolk arts and crafts to Wells Ma...2025-07-2819 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 20 - 20th July2025Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week we announce the winner of last week's competition and another opportunity to win 2 free tickets to a Maltings show of your choice! This week we feature Isaac with news of Maltfest, our very own Real Ale festival during Wells Carnival Week. Also, if you've been coming into the Maltings Cafe very recently you will have noticed our range of cakes and scones has changed! They're now made on the premises by Mollie, who has also introduced ma...2025-07-2019 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Podcast Episode 19 - July 13th 2025Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! It's Competition Time! This week we announce the first Maltings Matters Competition to win two tickets to any Maltings show in the next couple of months. Listen to the podcast to hear the question. Send your answers to hello@wellsmaltings.org.uk. Also, we speak to Andy Lindfield, Co-founder, Director and actor in DOT Productions. They were here on Saturday, (just yesterday in fact) performing their version of Jane Austen's Sense And Sensibility. But that's not all...2025-07-1315 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 18 - 6th July 2025Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! In this episode Simon speaks to our Work Experience student from #AldermanPeelHighSchool who has been with us this week and also to Ben Woodward from Triple Threat Stage School whose students had two sell out performances of the young@part version of the Queen Musical We Will Rock You. And of course we have the usual rundown of what's happening at Wells Maltings in the near future. Please share our podcast with your friends and on your social media accounts. We...2025-07-0615 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters - Episode 17Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! Simon's on holiday, so Mike has taken over the podcast! This week I thought I'd highlight the Wells Maltings Open Mic Night. I thought that the best way to do this was to interview a couple of our regular OM performers, Carol Stubbs and Mike Thorpe. I asked them to come into the Maltings podcast studio and record a live performance for us of a couple of tracks, including one of Carol's own songs, which I have to say is ve...2025-06-3020 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Tin Giants Special!Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! Sometimes we have more content than we can fit in a single episode of the regular Maltings Matters Podcast, so from time to time we will upload a Special. This first special features a conversation that Mike, Technical Lead at Wells Maltings (and podcast producer and editor) had with four members of highly esteemed folk rock band, Tin Giants who are coming to the Maltings on Friday 27th June - just 5 days away - as part of their 2025 UK tour. You...2025-06-2225 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 16Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! What have we got for you this week? Well, first we have an interview with this year's Wells Carnival Queen. What's her name? You'll have to listen to the podcast to find out. Also, we have a wonderful band coming to Wells Maltings this week and we feature a track from their album, Lighthouse. We spoke to four members of Tin Giants for the podcast, but it was so interesting that we decided that editing it to fit the time we...2025-06-2215 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 15Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week's episode is slightly different from usual and includes mentions of Max Boyce and Tin Giants plus a bit more content from Mike in the shape of a couple of tracks off his first solo album, Mrs Mackerel's Wedding. Download it and have a listen to find out more.www.wellsmaltings.org.uk2025-06-1515 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Podcast Episode 14Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week we bring you a tale of the Flately Amateur Acting Society -F.A.A.S. pronounced FARCE - as told by Gladys , assistant caretaker at Flatley Village Hall, alias Madeleine Sewter who also speaks to Simon about her inspiration for the character. As well as this there is the usual news and views from Wells Maltings about the coming week's entertainment. www.wellsmaltings.org.uk2025-06-0815 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters - Episode Thirteen June 1st 2025Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! It's definitely the start of summer, the sun is shining and now May is out it's T-shirt weather (long may it last!). This week we took our roving microphone to visit our Bingo Star session during the half term holiday and met some of the players to hear why they like coming to Wells and Wells Maltings. Of course, as always, Simon gives you the rundown of the upcoming events for the the next couple of weeks. So we hope you...2025-06-0115 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 12Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! We start with an apology that we were unfortunately unable to release an episode of the podcast last week as Mike was unwell and unable to get all the knob twiddling and production work done. However, we're pleased to say he's back to health in time to release this episode in which we have an interview with Joe Thomas who will be telling us about the self defence classes he will be starting at Wells Maltings at the beginning of Ju...2025-05-2516 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 11Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week we have, as usual, got the lowdown on what's coming up at Wells Maltings over the next little while, but also we gave a microphone and digital recorder to our Youth Projects Coordinator, Katy Moore so that she could talk to just a few of the members of The Lounge, our Thursday night Youth Club, to find out a bit more about their lives and experience of being a young person growing up in Wells-Next-The-Sea. We hope to in...2025-05-1113 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 10Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! Episode 10! Tegan, who runs our cafe joins Simon to talk about some things that are coming up over the next couple of weeks and from Hazel, Karen and Pat we learn about the Norfolk Craft Guild who are exhibiting and selling their work in the Handa Gallery throughout the month of May. Apologies for this episode being a day late, but it has been very busy in the technical department over the last week. (By the way the Mynx Soul Ba...2025-05-0416 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters - Episode 9Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week we have an interview with Derek from the Mynx Soul Band who is talking about the history of the band and the music they play. As well as this we do of course have the usual news of what's coming to Wells Maltings in the near future. We would love to hear from you about the podcast, what you love or what you hate! Just drop an email to hello@wellsmaltings.org.uk with Maltings Matters Podcast Podcast in...2025-04-2714 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Podcast Episode 8Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! It's the Easter Holidays so this episode is slightly shorter than usual, but you can still hear about what's coming up at the Maltings over the next couple of weeks. Also, this week you can get the chance to hear Isaac explain his role in the management of Wells Maltings. www.wellsmaltings.org.uk2025-04-1911 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 7Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! This week Simon speaks with Sue, one of our Visitor Information Centre volunteers. As usual, of course, we also have news of what's happening at Wells Maltings over the next couple of weeks. With the advent of smartphones most tourist information centres have ceased to exist. We don't think this is a good thing. So why is Wells Maltings' Visitor Information Centre really important? Sue will demonstrate why local knowledge and speaking to a human beats smartphones any day...2025-04-1216 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 6 - Easter Holidays EditionSend us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! In this Episode ... What's On at Wells Maltings over the Easter Holidays, a quick chat between Simon Daykin and Sir Prizes about the Bingo Star on Wednesday 9th and an interview with DJ Steve Greensides about our Northern Soul and Motown Night on Friday 11th. Now I'm off to set up the stage for Voodoo Room who are playing another SOLD OUT evening of music by Eric Clapton, Cream and Jim Hendrix who were featured in last week's Maltings Matters Pod...2025-04-0517 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 5Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! In this edition Simon speaks to Seb Broad, the Wells Maltings chef, about the new Spring Menu and the upcoming French Night. Also, via Zoom, Simon speaks to Pete Orr from the band Voodoo Room, who will be with us on Saturday 5th April. There are very few tickets left (if there are ANY by the time you read this)! Finally of course there's the usual run down of what's happening over the next 2 weeks at Wells Maltings. If you en...2025-03-2915 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 4Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! The fourth episode of the Maltings Matters Podcast which, as well as a roundup of what is happening at the Maltings this week, features an interview with comedian Patrick Monahan who is coming to perform at Wells Maltings on 28th March. If you've never seen Patrick perform you're in for a treat! Also in this Episode you can meet our Community and Youth Project Leader, Katy Moore and hear a little about her work with the young people of Wells. We a...2025-03-2316 min
Practice As ResearchSonic postcards as an arts-based approach to encourage collaborationIn this session, we would like to discuss a recent project that explores some of the ways in which arts-based thinking and practice might intervene productively to support transformative action and environmental planning at the local level. A project with George Revill from the Open University used arts-based practice to find ways of opening up spaces of engagement. Our work was part of an attempt to find ways to use creative and co-produced materials more systematically within policy engagement. We co-produced a short sonic documentary called Fishing for Life, which is currently being hosted at the Wells Maltings Arts...2025-03-1658 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Podcast Episode 3Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! In this episode, as always, we have details of what’s happening at Wells Maltings in the next couple of weeks, but also an interview with Nigel Miles-Thomas who will be bringing to life Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes at the Maltings on the 22nd March. In addition, you can hear an interview with one of the people who make the Maltings work. Who is it? You’ll have to listen and find out! www.wellsmalt...2025-03-1218 minMaltings MattersMaltings' Matters Episode 2Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! The Second Wells Maltings Podcast featuring a Zoom interview with Feast Theatre who are premiering their production Tales From The Motherland on 6th March at Wells Maltings, and a word from Simon Rowland Jones about the North Norfolk Music Festival performance by the Alkyona String Quartet on Sunday 9th March. We apologise for some of the audio quality in this episode due to circumstances beyond our control, but we think you will enjoy the content enough for it not to matt...2025-03-0317 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Episode 2The Second Wells Maltings Podcast featuring a Zoom interview with Feast Theatre who are premiering their production Tales From The Motherland on 6th March at Wells Maltings, and a word from Simon Rowland Jones about the North Norfolk Music Festival performance by the Alkyona String Quartet on Sunday 9th March. We apologise for some of the audio quality in this episode due to circumstances beyond our control, but we think you will enjoy the content enough for it not to matter.2025-03-0317 minMaltings MattersMaltings Matters Podcast Episode 1Send us a text and tell us what you’d like to hear about in Maltings Matters! The very first Maltings Matters Podcast presented by Simon Daykin, produced and edited by Mike Coombs, featuring Interview with Susie Self and Marina Sossi, and introduction to the next 2 weeks' events at Wells Maltings as well as introduction to the film Still Life by its producer/director Jeremy Brettinghamwww.wellsmaltings.org.uk2025-02-2225 min
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolutionThere will be a British general election on July 4. “The most consequential of our generation” no doubt many politicians will remind the voters. But almost exactly 45 years ago, there really was a profoundly consequential British election. Back in May 1979, Mrs Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative party won power in an election that ultimately changed everything about Britain. In 1979, (Sir) Tim Lankester was the first economic private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and, in his new book, INSIDE THATCHER’S MONETARISM EXPERIMENT, he writes about the promise, failure and legacy of this radical economic gamble. Yet in spite of the economic failure of Thatc...2024-05-2833 min
Arts & IdeasWomen warriors and power brokersAethelflaed and Bertha are two of the figures discussed in the new history of women in the Middle Ages written by Janina Ramirez. Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh has taken the heroine who fights Tancredi the crusading knight and reframed the story set to the music composed by Monteverdi's Il Combattimento. Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist who has tracked the way a Viking ‘Carnelian’ bead travelled to England from 8th-century Baghdad, with all that it tells us about women and power.They join Shahidha Bari to discuss ideas about women as warriors and power brokers.Femina: A New...2022-07-1345 min
When We MoveWhen we move - Episode 10 with Nadia IftkharEpisode 10 - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.
Nadia Iftkhar being half English and half Kashmiri having roots in the part of it of what is Pakistan today. She is a professional dance artist based in the North East. She has over 15 years’ experience working in a diverse range of settings, including work with companies such as; Talawa Young People’s Theatre, Tyneside Women’s Health, and Janice Parker Projects.
To date she has made and collaborated on over 20 works that have been performe...2020-08-2150 min
When We MoveWhen we move - Episode 10 TRAILEREpisode 10 TRAILER - When we move is a series of conversations based on movement, the body, art, dance, the heart, mind and life.
Releasing Friday, August 21st, 2020.
Nadia Iftkhar being half English and half Kashmiri having roots in the part of it of what is Pakistan today. She is a professional dance artist based in the North East. She has over 15 years’ experience working in a diverse range of settings, including work with companies such as; Talawa Young People’s Theatre, Tyneside Women’s Health, and Janice Parker Projects.
To date she has made and c...2020-08-1900 min