Show Notes for Thursday 28th January 2010

There is a great show lined up for you this week.

Eat as much as you can at Taybarns Restaurant by ASDA in Llansamlet, Swansea.


Better still enter the competition by Wednesday 3rd February and win a meal for 4 people. We will have two winners this week so text 07976364681 with "Comp" and your name to win. Listen to the Show

 If you are a Swansea Student get down to Taybarns any time after 8pm Sunday til Friday for all you can eat for just £4.99. Student card required.


And you silver surfers can eat well for just £3.99 before 5pm. Open from 11.30 am.


Enter the competition now.


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And here are places and people I've seen this week

Swansea on a cold but bright Sunday morning about eight o'clock as the slight fog lifts. oads of people about enjoying life.









 

One man and his dog below enjoying both excercise and thinking time.Yes! 






 
That is me at the top of the scaffolding. With the standard "Leahy" pose arms outwards

  Seija Knight singing on a quiet Monday morning.  I had a great conversation with her. Listen to In Town Today on Thursday. If you want to purchase her CD just click on the button below . Really great value at £10 plus postage. Watch out for more from this talented young soprano. Seija sings the following on the CD

Ave Maria - Schubert

Porgi Amor - Mozart
Stridono lassu - Leoncavallo
O sole mio - Di Capua
O mio babbino caro - Puccini
Vissi d'arte - Puccini
Si, Mi chiamano Mimi - Puccini
Oh! Quante volte - Bellini

Seija sang at Wembley Stadium

for the Russia/England 2008 Qualifier in front of 86,000, performed at the Ritz Hotel at a private party for Prince Alberty of Monaco and much more. See her website at http://www.seijaknight.com/index.htm

And listen to her on Thursday at 7pm.

What is the link with my guest on Thursday who owns Pollock's Toy Theatres shop in Covent Garden Market  and was in Coronation Street as a long standing character that we loved? I remember building one of these myself, in fact several and also with my children. Listen on Thursday at 7pm You could visit the website at http://www.pollockstoymuseum.com/index.html

Here is the link.      You'll remember Derek Wilton in Coronation Street played by Peter Barlow. We'll he spoke with me and we recorded an interview about the life and times of Toy Theatres. He owns the Benjamin Pollock Toy Shop in Covent Garden Market and is often there. Climb the stairs and you'll enter an world of toy theatres and much more. Buy a theatre and you'll get pure enjoyment in making ion up and performaing a short play. If you've got children, grandchildren or just young friends you'll see amazement in their eyes as they help you. Peter has published a book called Toy Theatres of the World which is becoming rare and valuable. Copies are available in the shop or on-line at the above website.

Paulette Pelosi was born in Cardiff but a short time later moved to her parents' home town of Swansea. She was educated at convent and grammar schools, but illness terminated 'A' levels and plans for a journalistic career. Chronic illness was often a disruptive force in her childhood and adolescence and continues to be so in adult life. In 1976 Paulette collapsed at the end of her training as a State Registered Nurse - a diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus put a name (at last) to the previous episodes of ill-health. Within two years of diagnosis she became heavily involved in promoting knowledge about Lupus within a national charity, and went on to become Public Relations Officer for the South Wales Lupus Group (since retired). Paulette says that writing is one of many personal survival tactics. She continues to live in Swansea where she maintains a healthy sense of humour. Her Welsh and Italian roots are both highly important to her identity.

Paulette's Italian roots and the direct involvement of her father in the scandal of Italian men, many of whom had grown and had families in Wales, and who were an integral part of the community, were interned as enemies of the state . Some had sons fighting in the Britsh army. Listen to this tragic story and the memorial that is being laid in Cardiff on July 2nd this year.

Details can be found on the site at

http://www.arandorastarwales.us/Arandora_Star_Memorial_Fund_in_Wales/HOME_PAGE_1.html

Interestingly, Terry Clarke, who features each week sang his composition Aranora Star when I heard him play at the Brunswick Arms last Thursday and we hope to feature that number as soon as we can set up a recording session. Meanwhile Terry has asked if we'd play his number Maria Callas as it continues the Italian theme with both Paulette and the singing of Seija.

Maria Callas is on Night Ride to Birmingham on the Terrapin label and features Wes McGhee. Recorded in September 2004 and available from Terry. I'll try and get a Paypal button on the site. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy Terry's music as much as I do. I'm awaiting the release of his Dylan Thomas CD which he has been working on over the last few months with Swansea poet and Dylan Thomas specialist Peter Thabit Jones
Terry says:
My first musical memories come from listening to the radio when I was a child. My mother always had the radio on in the house. My favourites  were the popular opera singers of that time such as Maria Callas, Erinco Caruso and Mario Lanza. . .  to me Maria Callas is hardcore, a blues singer almost. Her singing "Casta Diva" from Bellini's "Norma" is one of those pieces of music I return to constantly, like I do Mikes Davis "Sketches of Spain"

Donna Phillips and Dan Morgan talk about young film-makers in Swansea and their ideas they are currently working on.

The full team are featured here and we look forward to seeing their first production starting in the Spring. This will be a series of shorts that they hope to place in local, national and international competitions.

Finally Ollie will be reciting another couple of poems.

Keep listening.

See you next week