Frome FM wishes you a happy new year and hopes that our FM transmissions will begin again soon.
Meanwhile, you can hear all our programmes, live and recorded, online on this site and on Mixcloud.
Keep listening and please let us know what you think of our shows by emailing hello@nullfrome.fm
IN THIS EDITION
Frome Culture edition!
Extracts from Oakfield Choir and orchestra’s Hallelujah concert
Rehearsals at the Memorial Theatre for Dick Whittington panto which starts today
Part of an interview with Cooper Hall owner and singer Morag McLaren
The Mayor’s Message
Extracts from Working Memories – tales of work in Frome in days gone by.
If you would like your organisation featured on All About Frome, send an email to hello@nullfrome.fm
IN THIS EDITION
Our main feature is about refugees and their resettlement experience in the UK. Frome has seen several families from Syria pass through in the last few years and there are many more families out there from other countries looking for help to integrate into British society. We look at the plight of the refugee and the protocols for settling them into a world which is culturally very different from the one they fled.
In the studio, Dinah Bardgett, who worked on a scheme resettling vulnerable people in Somerset and Jason Hart from Bath University, who has spent 25 years on research with refugees in the Middle East and South Asia, and also helped support the Frome refugees.
Later, Julia meets Sue Merrills, Shop Manager at Oxfam, Frome and
Sue Willis from Purple Elephant on Christmas help for families.
If you or your organisation would like to be featured on All About Frome, email hello@nullfrome.fm and we’ll be in touch.
Annabelle McFadyen talks about COP26
and climate change activism
extinctionrebellionfrome@nullgmail.com
Cllr Richard Akroyd talks about a screening
of new George Monbiot Film Rivercide
at Frome Town Hall at 1800 hrs on 19th November
How did our rivers end up like this and what can we do about it? – Frome Town Council
The screening is followed by a (virtual) appearance from Franny Armstrong, director of the film, and a panel discussion featuring guests from
Wessex Water, Bristol Avon Rivers Trust, the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West
and representatives from local farming and fishing communities.
then
Simon Keyes from Friends of the River Frome calls for volunteers
for a new river monitoring scheme called Riverwatch
Celebrating, protecting and improving the Somerset River Frome (friendsoftheriverfrome.co.uk)
Christopher Curtis shows us the new board game, Prometheus,
he invented while he was a maths teacher at Frome College
prometheusconcept.com
PROMETHEUS COMPETITION – organised by Christopher Curtis, inventor:
The names of entrants who can name the wife of Prometheus
will be entered into a draw to win a copy of the game.
To enter the Prometheus competition. Contact Christopher at info.prometheusconcept@nullgmail.com with your answer and phone number or email address.
In this month’s episode of Housing Hub on Frome FM we hand the microphone over to the key players on each side of the Selwood Garden Community debate and let them ask each other about their vision for housing in Frome.
Proposals for a large housing development on the edge of Frome known as Selwood Garden Community have been the source of much heated discussion for many months. Campaigners working to stop the development have highlighted various concerns including loss of open land and damage to wildlife habitat as well as increased traffic and lack of infrastructure in the town. Those who are in favour point to the need for more housing in a town where demand is high and to the element of social housing included in the plans. At Fair Housing for Frome we wanted to try to get to the heart of the conversation so we’re making it the subject of our November episode of Housing Hub, our monthly talk-radio programme.
The show goes out on Frome FM at 3pm on Monday 15th November and again at 3pm on Friday 19th November. It features in conversation, Mark Brierly, one of the architects of the Selwood Garden Community masterplan and Lollie Melton, an environmentalist from the ‘Stop Selwood Garden Community’ campaign group. Jo Berry, an experienced Restorative Justice facilitator and involved in a new restorative conversation group in Frome, keeps the conversation on track. Jo, who is the founder of Building Bridges for Peace, demonstrates how people with opposite and passionate views on a subject can start to listen to each other and look for common ground. Do not miss this chance to hear the fascinating conversation from the people most closely involved with SGC, one of Frome’s most talked about housing topics.
The episode will also be available on catch-up shortly after the broadcast.
Press Release
Effective immediately
The directors of FromeFM have announced that the radio station has temporarily ceased transmissions on 96.6fm. The online service at www.frome.fm/listennow will continue as normal.
The license to transmit on FM has been suspended due to an administrative error beyond our control and we hope this will be resolved as soon as possible.
Programme-makers, please continue to make and send in your programmes. They will go out online but not on FM for the time being. Programmes transmitted to date will continue to be available on Mixcloud,
FromeFM apologises to its listeners and the members and volunteers and is doing everything possible to get back on the airwaves.
For further information, please contact hello@nullfrome.fm and we will get back to you.
23rd October, 2021
