Bite size highlights from 2025: Looking south with some of the best

Welcome back to our curtain-raiser series of bite size highlights drawn from the 2025 wrap up episode.

These were a few of the best community-generated stories of the year, strongly among the listener favourites. I love this particular mini-highlight reel - the way the music plays off what these folk have to say, culminating in Jenny treating us to an impromptu rendition of an old Irish hymn. Unforgettable.

Here are the voices, places and tunes you're hearing:

0m - Cathy McGowan (ep 254), with Sal Kimber doing a famous cover

0.33 - Dr Blake Scott (ep 256), for The MARSH (Marsh Appreciation and Restoration Society for Happiness) Project, Charleston, South Carolina

1.07 - Galaxy Groove, by Yarin Primak (from Artlist) (ep 256)

1.16 - Joel Caldwell, alongside Blake Scott (ep 256)

1.48 - Jenny Finn (ep 257), Floyd, Virginia

2.13 - Jenny sings an old Irish hymn

Title image: Joel Caldwell and Dr Blake Scott on the clean up beat (pic: Anthony James)

To access all episodes, including the full 2025 highlights package in ep 289, head to the website (where there’ll often be photos with each episode), or wherever you get your podcasts.

With thanks to our wonderful guests and the musicians who generously granted permission for their music to be heard here.

And thanks for listening and supporting the podcast!

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