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  • Ep. 36 Barrow Music Weekender October 25
    Oct 1 2025

    Barrow Music Weekender returns this month with four days of live music right across town. Now in its fifth year, the festival sees people of all ages come together for fantastic – and mostly free – music experiences.

    There’s a musical trail map, a mini conference looking at thehealth of live music and performance in the town, workshops, dancing and live performance in venues right across the musical spectrum. There’ll also be a chance to see and experience Light Organ, an amazing audio reactive artwork that brings sound to life.

    Tom Speight has been to meet the people who make it allhappen - beginning with a challenge from the festival organiser.

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    31 m
  • Ep.35 Wrestle at Florence Arts Centre, Egremont September 25
    Sep 15 2025

    If you need to sort your leg up buttock from your insidehipe, then a new exhibition celebrating Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling at Florence Arts Centre in Egremont is the place for you.

    Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling is a traditional formof “backhold” wrestling with origins going back to Viking times. It has strong cultural connections with farming and heavy industry; men would wrestle after work in their long-john underwear.

    “Wrestle” tells the story of the sport through original artwork by Janet Moss, contemporary photography by Chris Routledge, archive photos and costumes and a community embroidery project.

    And to celebrate the exhibition’s opening, a demonstrationof some of the holds and tactics was put on too. Tom Speight went along to watch to find out more…

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    28 m
  • Ep.34 Tullie re-opening in Carlisle August 25
    Sep 3 2025

    Tullie, in Carlisle, describes itself as a museum, artgallery, community hub and generally a great place – as well as being a home for the eternally curious.

    It’s 130 years old now. And it’s just undergone a £4.5 million transformation, fully reopening in April. Funding came from the government's Town Fund and Future High Streets Fund, Arts Council England and Cumberland Council.

    So how’s its first summer being fully reopened gone ? And who’s been visiting ? Tom Speight’s been along to find out, and as the hugely successful Dinosaur Revolution exhibition draws to a close, he met a few young dinosaur experts on the way as he was shown around to discover how the new Tullie has been blended with the old…

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    26 m
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