This programme if an encore presentation of our show for December 20, 2020. Join our holiday celebration hosted by Chris Cameron and enjoy poetry from Katie Hoogendam, Kim Aubrey and Felicity Sidnell Reid, a story by Donna Wootton and music from Jessica Outram and Marie-Lynn Hammond, who both wrote songs specially for this programme. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Gwynn, Chris and Felicity.
Holiday show radio series
Holiday Show 3
Our final holiday show for 2024 is an encore presentation of one of our 2021 shows, filled with stories suitable for the season. We hope you enjoy it. The Word on the Hills team wishes you a very Happy New Year.
Holiday Show 2
Welcome once again to Word on the Hills with me Felicity Sidnell Reid and our studio editor Anne Sidnell. This week we’re broadcasting our new Christmas program for 2024. Our guests today are storytellers well known to you, Gwynn Scheltema, Christopher Cameron, Ron Mackay and poet, Katie Hoogendam. Gwynn’s story, set in Zimbabwe, recalls how her mother celebrated Christmas in a tropical setting, while Ron’s story is about a young woman struggling to achieve her ambitions in Tenerife. Chris has once again written a new story for this show and Katie will read one of her collection of poems, which she has just released as a chapbook to celebrate the Winter Solstice.
Holiday show 1
Welcome once again to Word on the Hills with me, Felicity Sidnell Reid, my co-host Gwynn and our audio editor Anne Sidnell. The approach of Christmas and the holiday season prompts us to make different kinds of programmes from our usual ones. It is a season for stories and poems and songs, so instead of interviews with one writer, we have asked a number of them to read their work for us. This is a re-run of the show we first broadcast in 2019. Today we welcome Shane Joseph, Linda Hutsell Manning, , Chris Cameron, Allan Seymour and Les Robling to read for us and singer songwriter Marie-Lynn Hammond, who will sing one of her own songs.
New Year’s Eve episode
This week we present our final holiday show for 2023. This is an encore presentation and you’ll hear stories from Les Robling, Tom Pickering (read by Chris Cameron) and from Ronald Mackay. Jessica Outram sings a Christmas song and Anne–Marie Burrus and Felicity Sidnell Reid read a poem. Please join us!
Happy New Year to all our listeners!
Holiday Show for Christmas Eve 2023
Join us to revisit our Christmas show for 2017. Gwynn and Felicity read Christmas stories and poems by famous as well as less well known authors and wish you our listeners a very happy Christmas and New Year
Holiday Show for 2023
Welcome to our new holiday program for 2023, with music from Matt Kowalyk , and poems from Gwynn Scheltema, Katie Hoogendam, and Felicity Sidnell Reid. Especially written for this episode, there are short stories by Ron Mackay, a long time member of our writing community in Northumberland, now living in the Netherlands, but still keeping in touch and from Chris Cameron our guest co-host today, with a story about a writer who seeks inspiration and to break his writer’s block by retreating to a cabin in the snowy forest.
Please join us today and enjoy encore presentations of some of our previous Christmas shows in the last weeks of December.
With all best wishes for the holidays and for 2024 from all at Word on the Hills.
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