The Planet Reigate Podcast

100: Goodbye and thank-you

For Saturday 9th August 2025

As he hangs up his headphones, and turns off the 'on air' light after 100 consecutive weekly episodes, Peter reflects on some of the stories and features that have been included in the show, and pays a heartfelt thank-you to his many loyal listeners.

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0099a - PLANET REIGATE RAMBLES 4 - Buckland and Betchworth

Our final special edition of the show features another circular walk, this time on a cold winter's day - yu can see from the photo how the puddles had frozen over which rather confused our walking companion.

Join Peter for the route and live anecdotes:

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99: The Harlequin drama: in conversation with two major players… and more

For Saturday 2nd August 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:00 - Planet Reigate area news and sport

24:55 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

40:00 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #2

45:00 – The story of the local doctor 200 years ago who changed how we all lived

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0098A - PLANET REIGATE RAMBLES 3 - From Leigh

It's another bonus episode as Peter takes you on another circular walk in the Planet Reigate area, this week joined by Loupi the dog.

Join him to hear the route and observations:

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98: The story of Reigate’s horseracing track… and more

For Saturday 26th July 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

03:45 - Planet Reigate area news

22:10 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #3

24:20 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

38:40 – Join me to hear about Reigate’s racecourse that was once on the Heath. Plus the hid...

0097a - PLANET REIGATE RAMBLES 2 - The Colourful Marshes - 4miles

Join Peter for this bonus episode as he takes you on a circular walk from Nutfield, with anecdotes and conversations:

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97: The windmill, golf course and gallows on Reigate Heath… and more

For Saturday 19th July 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:15 - Planet Reigate area news

22:00 – Planet Reigate area travel news

24:50 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

33:15 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #4

35:35 - Planet Reigate Stars: t...

0096A - PLANET REIGATE RAMBLES - Buckland and Betchworth - 4 miles

Join us for this bonus episode as Peter takes you on a circular 4-mile walk from the Red Lion at Betchworth to:

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96: Policing Redhill & Reigate. We meet the police who’re making the area safer… and more

For Saturday 12th July 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:22 - Planet Reigate area news

23:40 – Planet Reigate area travel news

28:00 – What do you miss that Reigate and Redhill once had? We reminisce about long-lost shops, pubs and nightclubs

36:10 - The Good Time Guide...

95: Exhumed! Redhill’s buried bodies dug up and what they can tell us of the town 100 years ago… and more

For Saturday 5th July 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode

05:15 - Planet Reigate area news and sport

32:17 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #6

36:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

43:20 – Planet Reigate St...

94: Redhill’s community taxi company with a difference… and more

For Saturday 28th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:25 - Planet Reigate area news

16:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who helped the mum of the bride

18:25 – GUEST: there are several cab companies around the area but today, we’re talking with Ali who runs one out of R...

93: Reigate & Banstead ‘abolished’: what it means for you in our full explainer… and more

For Saturday 21st June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:35 - Planet Reigate area news

11:50 – The Top Ten most listened-to episodes: #8

14:50 – GUEST: As you may know, R&BBC is being abolished, along with all the other local councils in Surrey and Surrey County Council itself. This week we bring you...

92: The Reigate Summer Festival preview… and more

For Saturday 14th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

15:30 - Planet Reigate area news

39:25 - Planet Reigate area sports news

44:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

51:10 – GUEST: Tim from next weekend’s Reigate Summer Festival, a celebration of the town's creativity, a weekend of fr...

91: The local secure dog-field, with toys, obstacles and Instagrammable features… and more

For Saturday 7th June 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:35 - Planet Reigate area news

26:50 - Planet Reigate area sports news

34:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

39:40 – Workshops at this month’s Reigate Summer Festival

43:50 – GUE...

90: Log-on to the local IT consultancy firm protecting you from hacks and attacks on PCs and Macs… and more

For Saturday 31st May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

02:45 - Planet Reigate area news

18:00 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

26:30 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here...

89: The local ‘holiday hot-shot’ with insider tips for your next getaway… and more

For Saturday 24th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:50 - Planet Reigate area news

17:05 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

25:40 – GUESTS: This week hear from local independent travel advisor Sally Bosman.

42:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This...

88: The ‘guerilla gardeners’ behind a wildflower makeover of a local roundabout… and more

For Saturday 17th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:55 - Planet Reigate area news and weather

17:20 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

29:00 – GUESTS: This week hear from some of the residents who have taken over the management of… their local roundabout...

87: Reigate Dambuster hero and the local composer of the most-famous VE Day march that you *do* know… and more

For Saturday 10th May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode

05:15 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

23:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who rushed to help in R...

86: More local sporting heroes (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 3rd May 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:25 - Planet Reigate area news and travel

30:50 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

37:50 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

42:20 – GUESTS – Hear from more of the winners of the recent Reigate & Banste...

85: Our local sporting heroes (1/2)… and more

For Saturday 26th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:00 - Planet Reigate area news, travel and weather

22:20 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the mystery wallet-woman at The Belfry. 

23:40 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

32:30 – GUESTS – This week we hear from some...

84: Radio Redhill’s 50th birthday… and more

For Saturday 19th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:10 - Planet Reigate area news

13:45 – GUEST – The radio service that has been entertaining patients and staff at the East Surrey Hospital has marked its 50th anniversary this week. The first experimental broadcast took place on Christmas Day 1974 at the former Redhill General Hospital, with regular programmes starting the following...

83: The aerodrome-based charity that’s nothing to do with planes, or buses… and more

For Saturday 12th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:20 - Planet Reigate area news

14:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go

18:45 – GUEST – Us In A Bus Part 1: This week we tell you about the charity based at the aerodrome, but it’s got not...

82: Reigate’s peppermint farms (2/2)… and more

For Saturday 5th April 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

03:00 - Planet Reigate area news

07:45 - Planet Reigate area sport

09:00 – Reigate Roulette. Local resident Emma tells us what they love most about living around here.

13:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for the woman who gave a boy a boost in Morrison...

81: 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry (1/2)… and more

For Saturday 29th March 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

TIMECODE -

00:00 - What’s in this episode.

09:45 - Reigate Roulette

16:55 - Planet Reigate area news

26:50 - 100 years on, Reigate’s forgotten industry. The first of two features on what was grown, harvested and produced around Albert Road North and became famous around the world – but is an industry now...

80: Reigate Hill plane crash 80th anniversary event… and more

For Saturday 22nd March 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:30 - Planet Reigate area news

16:15 – Earlswood’s ‘ghost house’

19:15 - Reigate Hill plane crash 80th anniversary event. This week we report from a commemoration event on Reigate Hill last Wednesday. It marked the 80th anniversary of the loss of nine lives of US Air Fo...

79: Rejuvenating Reigate and Redhill with the local skin expert… and more

For Saturday 15th March 2025

https://tinyurl.com/prp78

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:05 - Planet Reigate area news

25:50 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for mystery-man ‘John’ who walks in Priory Park

28:20 – Guest: Are you looking to rejuvenate your skin, or improve your complexion? C...

78a: *Extra Episode - 30-minute Soundscape

Each week on The Planet Reigate Podcast we end with our '60-second Soundscape'.

Now, uniquely, we have produced our first '30-minute Soundscape', half an hour of natural sounds from across the Planet Reigate area - birds, ducks, insects and the occasional dog and light plane. No voices. No surprises. Nothing loud.

It's 30 minutes of natural sounds from where we live, to relax to, meditate to, to listen to while working, driving or revising. Or just when your head is too busy and...

78: Redhill’s new community singing and music centre… and more

For Saturday 8th March 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:11 - Planet Reigate area news

26:45 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for a wheely-great man at Earlswood Lakes.

28:30 – Guest:

A centre for all-things music is opening in Redhill. The Franklin Music Centre is at St. John’s churc...

77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and more

For Saturday 1st March 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

05:40 - Planet Reigate area news

14:40 – Reigate Roulette. 77: The Reigate kids’ group whose members come from across the south-east… and more

18:30 – Guest: This week hear from Helen and Vicky who met 20 years ago when they were both in East Surrey Hospi...

76: Redhill’s new new-music nights… and more

For Saturday 22nd February 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode

03:10 - Planet Reigate area news 

15:20 – “Hello Redhill!” The onstage greeting at the first new music night event in the town last weekend.

18:40 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here.

22:25 - The Good Time Guide: thin...

75: Why The Harlequin’s future is still not confirmed… and more

For Saturday 15th February 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

07:30 – We have the highlights of the council meeting which still didn’t give an airtight, copper-bottom, gold-plated, definitive, signed and sealed confirmation on money being spent on the refurb and rebuild of The Harlequin.

37:25 - Planet Reigate area news part 1.

46:20 – Pla...

74: At Valentines, why you love living here … and more

For Saturday 8th February 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:00 - Planet Reigate area news part 1.

24:15 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, for those who gave kind words to a new driver

25:45 - Planet Reigate area news part 2.

30:40 - Planet Reigate area sport

32...

73a: *Extra Episode - Harlequin '£10m decision' at RBBC council meeting 30.01.25

Funding has been earmarked for Redhill's Harlequin theatre which was shut in September 2023 due to unstable concrete in its building.

On Thursday evening 30 January 2025,, Reigate and Banstead Borough Council agreed to allocate up to £10m for the theatre and "cultural offerings" in the borough.

This is a full report on the meeting including clips from the discussion and background commentary.

To read the full 38-page ‘Harlequin Options Analysis and Next Steps’ report that the council was di...

73: The next ‘act’ in The Harlequin’s drama, local plant-based cooking courses… and more

For Saturday 1st February 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

10:22 - Planet Reigate area news part 1. Including the latest about the Harlequin - and the latest A&E, ambulance and cancer stats from the hospital.

30:45 - Planet Reigate area travel news. Road and train disruption this coming week.

35:00 – GU...

72: Reigate’s boxing, horse-riding, wannabe stuntwoman and fitness expert… and more

For Saturday 25th January 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

06:55 - Planet Reigate area news

14:30 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go this week

21:25 – GUEST: Olivia Furner from movewitholivia.com, Reigate fitness expert. So if you have been a bit sluggish over the festive period...

71: The local board-gamers group, your ‘wants’ for Reigate High Street… and more

For Saturday 18th January 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

07:30 - Planet Reigate area news - Part One

14:00 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week praise for the boss of The Belfry.

15:15 – GUEST: A new gaming group that’s been set up at Gatwick. So, if you were bitten by t...

70: More on the Harlequin’s future… and more

For Saturday 11th January 2025

This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:

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00:00 - What’s in this episode.

04:40 – The ‘best bits’ from the council meeting 9th January, with more harlequin discussion. We have taken the, err, more concrete bits from a 1hr 45m meeting and boiled it down to 23 minutes.

36:15 - Planet Reigate area news - Part One

50:10 – Planet Reigate Stars...

The Story Of Bancroft Road Reigate

How many times have you driven into Reigate either from Redhill, or from down the Hill, and found yourself in the town’s one-way system, taking that awkward sharp left-hand turn off Church Street, past the town’s only multi-storey car park on the right-hand side, the library tucked away at the dog-leg bend, the Everyman cinema on the right and up to Bell Street..?

Have you ever looked at the building on the left-hand side, Pool House, and wondered how it got its name?

Mayb...

69: The story of Bancroft Road, Reigate 4 - behind the scenes at the abandoned swimming pool

Saturday 4th January 2025

Now, our four-part mini-series over Christmas and New Year concludes, with what you might call a bonus edition. We have been given special access to part of Bancroft Road that is not normally open to the public. With grateful thanks to Spencer Copping of WS Planning and architecture, whose offices are in the appropriately named Pool House, listen as we go behind the scenes and underground as we record interviews in what was the actual pool.<...

Episode 68: The rise and fall of Reigate’s pool and picture house on Bancroft Road, and the legacy of the husband and wife who got them built.

For Saturday 28th December 2024

This is the third part of four in our Christmas/New Year mini-series on the history of Bancroft Road in Reigate.

Part one was in episode 66 – We started the story with Harry Bancroft and Emmy meeting, marrying and running the Hippodrome cinema on Bell Street. You can hear it here: https://tinyurl.com/prp66bancroft1 (tap the link and then...