Bästa Speak Sunderland podcaster (2024)

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Little Pricks 10:00

3y ago10:00

10:00

Feels like it's been AGES since Betty & Stevie properly caught up. It must be, because apparently Betty "misses Stevie's face". Yeah, right! Betty & Stevie share their experience of receiving the "little prick" - erm, vaccine, and what they're looking forward to as the lockdown lifts. And we want to hear from you - have you received your little pri…

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Asunder 26:39

3+ y ago26:39

26:39

How can you capture the mood of a country at war in a documentary? With a uniquely poetical, musical filmmaking style, artist and filmmaker Prof. Esther Johnson was commissioned by 14-18 Now to create "Asunder" - a uniquely moving and vibrant documentary which interweaves narratives from conflict overseas with characters in the North East. "Asunder…

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Len Gibson and the Sunderland Remembrance Service 16:19

3+ y ago16:19

16:19

This is Len Gibson, BEM. He’s reading from his collection of poetry, which he’s compiled over the past hundred years of his life. You heard that right, Len Gibson turned 100 years old on the third of January this year. Len’s regarded as not only a hero to Sunderland, but also a national hero. During the second world war, Len was a member of the 125…

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Number One Fan 30:06

3+ y ago30:06

30:06

"Oh my God. OH MY GOD! It's Betty and Stevie!! [Unintelligible.]" From across the pond, living in Traverse City, Michigan, meet Mark Whitley - the self-proclaimed number one fan of Speak Up Sunderland. He's listened to every episode of Speak Up Sunderland. No, but for real, every. Single. Episode. We wanted to surprise him with a video chat. (In fa…

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Wor Vera - Singing for Care Home Residents 25:02

4y ago25:02

25:02

Meet "Wor Vera", a.k.a. singer Deborah Taylor-Smith, who's donating her time and her voice by performing songs from throughout the decades outside care home residents across the North East. As care homes across the country are losing lives to COVID-19, Deb, who's studying BA Performing Arts at the University of Sunderland, is lifting spirits for re…

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Lockdown Edition - Coronavirus Deep Cleaning 36:41

4y ago36:41

36:41

Our hosts Betty Ball and Stevie B get together for a call after a really intense week. Now with his job as a deep cleaner classifying him as a "key worker", Stevie B shares his experience of deep cleaning tower blocks of COVD-19. It's not all doom and gloom - Betty gets sloshed in the bath, and we learn the etiquette of proper underwear. --- --- --…

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Happy New Year from Betty & Stevie 24:15

4+ y ago24:15

24:15

Happy New Year from Betty and Stevie at Speak Up Sunderland! Together we chat festive memories, play a stupid game, and tell you all about a couple of new projects we're launching next year: A special first listen to a supercut of our first "Ball's Deep" - where we put Betty through her paces - challenging her with intense experiences & awkward sit…

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Sunderland Samaritans 29:37

4+ y ago29:37

29:37

Meet two of the volunteers who take the calls that help save lives, and hear what it's like on the other end of the phone line at the Sunderland Samaritans. Sandy Shearer and Katie Mitchell share why they're driven to support this important charity, and a bit of behind-the-scenes gossip into the perhaps unexpected humorous phone calls. The Sunderla…

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Spooky Stories with Spectral Visions Press 44:47

4+ y ago44:47

44:47

Red Riding Blood. Witches put to trial. The monsters behind the screen. This is the Speak Up Sunderland Halloween Special. Spooky stories for Halloween, read by 6 members of Spectral Visions Press, a publishing house based at the University of Sunderland who focus on the gothic, horror, and macabre. Joining us live to share stories at the Fire Stat…

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The Auditorium - Sunderland's New Music & Arts Venue 34:13

4+ y ago34:13

34:13

Work on a £11million new music venue in Sunderland's city centre has just begun, alongside the redeveloped Fire Station. When it opens in 2021, the "Auditorium" promises to be Sunderland's answer to mid-size venues - a 450-seater venue with music and theatre performances around the year. It's part of the MAC Trust's continued plans to develop a cul…

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Across the Atlantic in a Rowing Boat 26:48

4+ y ago26:48

26:48

40 days at sea. 6 metre waves. A diet of 10,000 calories a day. And four men in a rowing boat, battling all kinds of waves, wind and weather to cross the Atlantic. Meet John Adams - he's taking on a fierce competition called the "Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge". Along with three other crew mates, Derek Spence, John Ford, and Colin Corfield, Jo…

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Little Podcast in the Big Apple 29:35

4+ y ago29:35

29:35

Cut the cake, put on a "cheap and nasty tat" foam hat, and celebrate our first birthday with us! ONE YEAR OLD, BABY! Betty, Stevie, and a gathering of local listeners at the Fire Station in Sunderland, reflect back on the first season of the podcast. We share some of the first season highlights, some success stories that have emerged from bringing …

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Stars of Sunderland 3 - June Ainsley 22:34

5y ago22:34

22:34

"Every patient is a person, an individual, a human being. And we've got to make sure, no matter what age and how far on they are in their dementia, that they have that dignity right up to the end." June Ainsley works full time with autistic and special needs children. But due to the help she received from a dementia charity here in Sunderland when …

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The Road to BBC Newcastle 21:53

5y ago21:53

21:53

"We've done something that the BBC have noticed. That's a pretty big statement, isn't it?" - Stevie B "I'm proud to be getting out of this car, and being the voice of Sunderland. Big love to everyone who has been a part." - Betty Ball On Wednesday last week, at 8pm, our friends Betty and Stevie joined The Evening Show on BBC Newcastle. Host Tamsin …

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Mental Health - Speak Up Sunderland LIVE #3 43:50

5y ago43:50

43:50

This episode of the Speak Up Sunderland podcast carries a trigger warning: Our guests talk about attempted suicide, depression, panic attacks, and lived mental health experiences. Another bumper episode, recorded at our last Speak Up Sunderland LIVE event at The Peacock in April; in collaboration of Katie Baggott, founder of the 'S.O.S. Sunderland …

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Stars of Sunderland 2 - Paige Hunter 40:30

5y ago40:30

40:30

This episode of the Speak Up Sunderland podcast carries a trigger warning: We talk about attempted suicide, post traumatic stress, substance abuse, and mental health issues - with people who have lived mental health experience. Local inspiration 18-year-old Paige was commended by the Northumbria Police for her project called 'Notes on the Wear', wh…

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Stars of Sunderland 1 - Kate Townsend 25:58

5y ago25:58

25:58

Meet the Sunderland woman who's working to put herself out of a job... Alreeet! We're proud to launch a new project as part of Speak Up Sunderland... It's called "Stars of Sunderland". It's all about highlighting the work of exceptional individuals or organisations in Sunderland that go above and beyond for the community. In this first episode, jou…

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Marty Longstaff - Speak Up Sunderland LIVE #2 54:42

5y ago54:42

54:42

Alreet! We're back, live from the Peacock in Sunderland city centre on Wednesday, with Sunderland-based singer & songwriter Marty Longstaff (a.k.a. The Lake Poets). You may know Marty's song "Shipyards" as the title track on the Netflix documentary series "Sunderland 'Til I Die", detailing a difficult season for the SAFC (Sunderland Association Foo…

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Sunderland Foodbank Network - Speak Up Sunderland LIVE at the Peacock #1 27:47

5y ago27:47

27:47

Alreeeet! Welcome to our very first Speak Up Sunderland Live podcast! This is part one. We're so thrilled to have recorded in front of a live audience - huge thanks to our friends at the Peacock in Sunderland city centre. Kate Townsend, the Coordinator of the Sunderland Foodbank Network joined us to share about the hugely important service they pro…

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Addiction and Homelessness 45:11

5+ y ago45:11

45:11

Alreet! A bit of a hard-hitting episode from the outset this week. Craig Hilton, the Manager of the Salvation Army's Swan Lodge Lifehouse in Sunderland, and Deb Fozzard, Director of the Sunderland Connect Network, joined us in the studio to talk addiction and homelessness in Sunderland. --- --- --- Speak Up Sunderland is a weekly podcast, proudly m…

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Holiday Special 2018 31:55

5+ y ago31:55

31:55

Happy Holidays from us at Speak Up Sunderland! As a present for you, we've made an extra-special, bumped stuffed selection box of an episode, for you to enjoy with your "nog negg". Erm... "egg nog"! With special thanks to Sharon Appleby and Natalie Dellow of the Sunderland Bid, for making this episode possible, and for championing businesses in Sun…

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Best Place to Live in the UK 25:49

5+ y ago25:49

25:49

We might be biased. We think Sunderland is the best place to live in the UK. But, apparently, we're not alone. According to a recent survey by finance firm OneFamily, Sunderland has been voted the best city to live in the UK if you're under 30 - based on affordability of living, property prices, commuting costs, and satisfaction and "happiness" lev…

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Cash 4 Calendars 28:48

5+ y ago28:48

28:48

Today, we bring you the "Cash 4 Calendars" campaign! Speak Up Sunderland host Betty Ball teamed up with Kate Townsend, the Sunderland Foodbank Coordinator, to raise £500 - enough to buy an advent calendar for every kid in Sunderland who depends on the food banks, and would otherwise miss out on the countdown to Christmas. But they smashed the targe…

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#WeArExperimenting 22:34

5+ y ago22:34

22:34

Today, we meet the eccentrically down-to-earth Jo Howell - artist behind the #WeArExperimenting project. This Arts Council England project brings experimental photography to Sunderland - a series of workshops about creating photography using household objects such as tin cans and dustbins. #WeArExperimenting finishes with an exhibition - which you …

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Supafly for a White Guy 27:09

5+ y ago27:09

27:09

Ever heard a guy get laser tattoo removal surgery on a podcast? Didn't think so. (We don't like to play it safe here on Speak Up Sunderland!) Oh yeah. On this week's episode, Betty Ball challenges Stevie B to go under the laser, and get the tattoo of his ex-wife's name removed. This episode is proudly made in partnership with brothers Will and Dan,…

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Picnic 39:34

5+ y ago39:34

39:34

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! Today, our hosts meet Robyn & Eddie from the band Picnic - based in Sunderland, they're a seven piece jazz / alternative / pop ensemble, and their music is going from strength to strength. Join us as we chat origi…

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Ryan Booth Photography 32:31

5+ y ago32:31

32:31

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! Today, Stevie learns to "SUCK IT IN", shows off his brick, and Betty gets a little too wet in the fountains. Why? Our friends met with Ryan Booth, an emerging photographer based in Sunderland, and travelled to thr…

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Sunderland's Landmarks 22:09

5+ y ago22:09

22:09

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Jay... I mean Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! Join us, and let us "envelop" you in the "warm, moist" sounds of this episode as our friends pick 5 locations each in Sunderland, to have their photos taken. This is the first of a two-part episode; …

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Belle of the Back Streets 39:13

5+ y ago39:13

39:13

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! A few weeks back, writer Glenda Young got in touch with us over Twitter. She's recently signed a three-book deal with Headline Publishing, and is due to release her debut fiction novel "Belle of the Back Streets' …

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Northern Spire 27:00

5+ y ago27:00

27:00

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! Last week, we visited the opening of the Northern Spire bridge; connecting the two areas of Pallion & Castletown together across the river Wear. After just over three years of construction over the past three year…

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Ask Betty & Stevie 22:04

5+ y ago22:04

22:04

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! This is our first "Q&A" style episode. Questions about the show, and about our hosts. You asked - and betty & Stevie answered. You also helped suggest some general Sunderland knowledge questions, to test how much …

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Roker Pier and Lighthouse 43:44

5+ y ago43:44

43:44

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! Last week, for the first time ever in its history, the Roker Pier and Lighthouse opened to the public. Originally built between 1885 and 1903, the lighthouse had fallen into disrepair, until restoration work began…

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National Glass Centre 26:28

5+ y ago26:28

26:28

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this weekly podcast, proudly made both in and about Sunderland! This week, Betty & Steve enjoy a free glass blowing demonstration at the National Glass Centre, based here in Sunderland. Featuring interviews with; Laura Reed - Marketing Communications Coordinator Ian Spence - G…

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National Mackem Day 29:38

5+ y ago29:38

29:38

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this new weekly podcast - proudly made in, and about, Sunderland! This Sunday (12th August) it's National Mackem Day - why aye! To celebrate, Betty & Steve hit the streets of Sunderland with the Mackem Dictionary - to hear how many phrases the people of Sunderland know. Featur…

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City Hearts 44:02

6y ago44:02

44:02

Alreeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this new weekly podcast - proudly made in Sunderland! Today, Betty & Stevie meet City Hearts - a Sunderland-based charity who offer support for survivors of human trafficking and modern slavery; and make a new friend in "Joey", one of City Heart's clients originally from Vietn…

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The Sunderland International Airshow & 100 Years of the RAF 40:15

6y ago40:15

40:15

Areeeet! Welcome to Speak Up Sunderland! Join Betty Ball & Stevie B for this new weekly podcast- proudly made in Sunderland! In this very first episode, Betty & Stevie hoy themselves into Stevie's car (via KFC) to visit the North East Land, Sea and Air Museum in Sunderland, in search of a WW2 plane recreated by a bunch of youths. What does the Sund…

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