Porty Podcast
The Porty Podcast is a community project, highlighting events in and around Edinburgh's seaside - Portobello! It's a very active area with sailing, rowing and kayaking on the Forth, a vibrant artistic community and a strong sense of identity which makes it slightly separate from the other parts of Edinburgh. Image credit Nicola Dunlop
Episodes
346 episodes
333 Bellfield's Big Build
The Bellfield Community Hub has been one of Portobello's success stories. But it's a story with a future and this afternoon the next phase of that story - Bellfield's Big Build - will be launched with a party when we'll learn how we all as a co...
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Episode 333
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332 Community Champion Hazel Darwin-Clements
For the second year in a row, Cycling UK have presented awards to two individuals who have worked hard to promote cycling as a healthy means of getting around. This year’s “Community Champions” from #100WomenInCycling are Kirsty Lewin from Spok...
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331 Beatles Marathon
The Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with an estimated 600 million records sold worldwide. Between 1962 and 1970, The Fab Four wrote and recorded 188 of their own songs, with 16 of them reaching Number 1 in the Charts. Thi...
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Promo for 331 Beatles Marathon 24
You may have heard about the Beatles Marathon coming to Porty Town Hall at the weekend. Well, I managed to catch up with one of the main organisers, Stuart McGachan, to hear more about what's planned. Here's a brief taste of what he had to say....
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330 Edinburgh Tool Library at 10
One of the most popular episodes of the Porty Podcast was back in 2018 when the Edinburgh Tool Library arrived in Portobello. The library and workshop moved into the same building as Tribe Porty – both share the same kind of ethos. This month, ...
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329 RepairMongery
If you go along to Porty Community Fridge this morning, you’ll see something a bit different. Today sees the launch of what they’re calling the RepairMongery. The hope is that people will book a slot where they can bring along those household g...
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328 Portobello Book Festival
Earlier this week, the programme for the Portobello Book Festival was launched. Throughout the first weekend in October, the library will be buzzing with writers launching new books, talking about them, discussing the work of others and laying ...
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327 Life Care's The Cottage - Support for those living with dementia
Dementia affects around 90,000 people in Scotland. Across the UK, the total is currently around a million. Those figures however are expected to increase by 50% by 2050. That will put an ever increasing strain on the services which offer day ca...
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326 St Mark's Church
St Mark’s Episcopal Church in the High Street has received some good news. The National Churches Trust has awarded it a £100,000 grant to help preserve this historic Georgian building. The church first started fund raising about five years ago ...
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325 Award Winning Towerbank Primary
Here at The Porty Podcast, we were delighted to learn that a group of primary school children at Towerbank had come top in their age-group in a programme called ‘Academy 9’. The aim was to get schools across Scotland involved in real life scien...
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324 Portobello Town Hall's First Anniversary
It almost seems hard to believe but Portobello Town Hall has been running – and more important running successfully – for a year now. And it’s five years, almost to the day, when Miss Morag from Lothian Dance Academy found the doors barred when...
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323 Morag Donaldson - an Award Winning Volunteer
If you were looking at Facebook earlier in the week, you may have seen the lovely photograph of a beaming Morag Donaldson. She’s just been presented with an award recognising all the voluntary work she’s done in Portobello in recent years, most...
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322 Sea Rising Festival
It's the first of June. The longest day is just three weeks away. And on Midsummer's Day, The Portobello Sea Rising Festival will take place. In this episode, Hazel Darwin-Clements from Porty Community Energy has been out on the Prom and Beach,...
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321 Window Wanderland 2024
The dark nights of 2020 were enlivened by the brilliant pictures and illustrations people put up for the first Window Wanderland. The event just before Christmas helped us cope with the restrictions of lockdown. This year it’s back but moved to...
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320 Town Hall - What do YOU want to see in the garden?
It’s been over six months since the community took over control of Portobello Town Hall. Inside, it’s now strikingly different from what had been before - it now looks quite vibrant and fresh and there’s an air of excitement because of the acti...
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319 The Rose Hafla at Bellfield
Belly dancing is synonymous with the Middle East. Some of remember films from the 50s and 60s which feature these exotic looking dancers. However, belly dancing has attracted followers all over the world, not least here in Scotland. Tonight, yo...
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318 Whatever happened to the Beach - Part 2
Just over three months ago, Storm Babet caused considerable damage across the East of Scotland. Although Portobello was sheltered from the worst effects of the storm to a certain extent, we still saw large swathes of the beach swept away, groyn...
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317 Moreish TV - now on Apple TV
What did you do in lockdown? Well, one Porty couple set about starting their own TV show called Moreish TV. At first, it was found on YouTube but its growing popularity meant that it attracted attention not just from up and coming stars from a ...
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316 The Portobello Swim Centre: Edinburgh Leisure's CEO
Over the past few days, we’ve heard reports that, for instance, Portobello Swim Centre could be earmarked for closure. That was followed a statement from Edinburgh Leisure which insisted there had been misleading media articles regarding venu...
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315 Tills Bookshop And Café
It’s just over six months since Tills and Company arrived in Portobello High Street. It’s more than just a second-hand bookshop, but a place where you can meet friends over a coffee or spend time reading or quietly meditating. It’s taken a whil...
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314 Cinderella
Panto is back at Portobello Town Hall! Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it certainly is! The new production of Cinderella is brought to us by Stage Door Entertainment, the same company that produced the highly successful ‘Oliver’ last month. Rehearsals a...
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313 Sopwith Strutter and Ellie Carter
Over the past quarter of a century, a group of men, aged between 65 and 100, have been taking on a labour of love to recreate a unique piece of aviation history – building from scratch a replica of the WW1 fighter, the Sopwith Strutter. Today, ...
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312 Herstory of Portobello
There are several blue or black plaques to famous men in Portobello – from Hugh Miller to William Russell Flint to Harry Lauder. However, there’s only one to a woman – Helen Hopekirk, a talented musician who was born here, emigrated to America ...
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