Peter Stewart

And they also say bring your apples along to have them pressed and bottled. No windfall, please. They don't want a bit of extra...

meat in there if you don't a bit of extra protein is not necessary we can supply new bottles so you can save both money and waste by washing and sterilizing your own one liter plastic milk or juice bottles make sure you keep the caps because sizes vary slightly and if you're planning to make cider this year then bring larger containers and pay even less per liter last pressings at 3 30

juice sales no apple trees they say come anyway and buy the freshest possible juice pressed in front of your very eyes from apples donated by others children's activities and also they're going to have a gardening tool and knife sharpening service and surrey county council's greener futures team are going to be there as well

and yeah all sorts of things going on including an inaugural baking competition more details oh also chutneys jams and jellies come and browse they say there'll be a huge selection of delicious local produce on sale in the hall as well and savories and cakes like baked apple cake or maybe an apple pudding as well. For more details on that, that sounds great, doesn't it?

Going to try and get down to there. Re-Betchworth.org, that's R-E-Betchworth.org for more details on that one. Mentioned this a little bit earlier on, and there is going to be an Arts Takeover week returning to Red Hill this autumn. Remember going to the one last year?

Just as the Planet Reigate podcast started up, I remember going along and speaking to Kay, who was organising it all, and sitting in the Harlequin Theatre in Redhill. Little did we know what was happening above our heads at that time, because it was a couple of days later, it was all closed down, and Kay was pulling her hair out, thinking, where am I now going to have...

a ukulele event and dance events and singing events and poetry readings and conversations about writing crime and all the other wonderful events that she and the council put on. Where am I going to hold all these? But she pulled it off. Congratulations to her. And for obvious reasons, it's going to be happening again, but not at the Harlequin.

It's going to be between the 5th and the 12th of October, running Arts Week in Redhill to celebrate the power of culture, creativity and connection here so keep listening to the Planet Reigate podcast for more details on what is going to be going on and where. But essentially, an art exhibition cheerleading choirs, ballet, Bollywood, art for relaxation, crafts, messy art for kids...

storytelling workshop, free concerts, African drumming workshop, an open mic music event, photography walk, crochet, DJ taster sessions, painting class and dance as well. So all sorts of things going on there. Date for your diary, Saturday the 5th to Saturday the 12th of October.

And I can also tell you that our friend Jamie, who was featured in one of our early episodes of the Planet Reigate podcast. Yeah, Jamie, good guy, who is somebody that is a local musician, local producer, does that kind of stuff, but also helps out. by mentoring at local schools, particularly at the Carrington School.

So he goes along there and he helps people just kind of maybe have kind of lost their way a little bit or they want a little bit of kind of adult help, a little bit of adult direction, someone to bounce some ideas off, someone who can just listen to them. So Jamie, all-round good guy. And I mentioned this at the start of the summer. It was something that he did recently.

a few weeks ago and he tells me that he's going to be doing it again in 2025 and he said you couldn't give people a bit of advance notice could you because it is something that was a great sellout a few a few weeks ago and i'd love it if more people knew about it next time as well absolutely jamie it's a songwriting camp a Bower Hill farm in Surrey, songwriting camp.

And it's going to be July the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, August 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. Personalized writing groups, just you, a couple of other people. Jamie is the guy to know, help you, inspire you, guide you, and mentor you. Professional recording studio access as well. Beautiful surroundings as well. round about £45 a day. jamieamos.co.uk if you want a little bit more on that.

And episode 32 if you want to hear a little bit more about Jamie. Now, do you know someone that lives in Reigate? Do you know someone that lives in Red Hill? Do you know someone that lives in Merstham or Buckland or Betchworth or Brockham or anywhere in the planet Reigate area? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you do. If so, please tell them about the Planet Reigate podcast.

It's exclusively for RH1, 2 and 3. It's news and it's guests and it's interviews and it's all great positive stuff about where we live and where we love. Thank you in advance, just ahead of our first anniversary for spreading the word.

Well, a new exhibition at Adams Gallery in Reigate in September celebrates the work of Samuel Palmer and William Blake and commemorates their first meeting exactly 200 years ago. But who was Samuel Palmer and what were his links with the planet Reigate area? Now we start our mini-series on Sam's story, the local artist who became world famous, but only really after his death.

This week, his dubious love affair, his disreputable father and his debtor of a brother. Samuel Palmer was a landscape painter, etcher and printmaker, and also a prolific writer. His link with Surrey, forgive me, started when he was born in, yeah, Surrey Square, off the old Kent Road in London in 1805. It's OK, we'll have a better local link a little bit later on.

And today his paintings are displayed around the world. He had little formal training and little formal schooling, painting churches from around the age of 12, and he first exhibited at the Royal Academy at just 14. But his mother died when he was 13, an event that affected him for the rest of his life. He wrote later, It was like a sharp sword sent through the length of me.

From the age of 20, he produced many paintings around the area of Shoreham near Sevenoaks, where he lived in a run-down cottage from 1826 to 1835. Those paintings showed the area as mysterious, often shown in sepia shades under moon and starlight, but Palmer only showed these early pictures to selected friends.

Samuel Palmer's dad was also called Samuel, and was described at the time as somewhat disreputable. And he also moved to the Shoreham area with other members of the family, and then Samuel himself moved in to his dad's home. And it was there that he met and fell in love with the daughter of fellow artist John Linnell, Hannah Linnell.