'Life's Not Always a Beach' Guest Edit
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4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of you applied and this summer we have been featuring programmes guest edited by those successful teams of listeners.
In the last in the series Vince, Fiona, Derek and Lucas invited us to Tenby in West Wales. For their programme they wanted us to look at what happens when the tourists go home from towns like theirs. They don’t think we spend enough time thinking about the challenges that face coastal communities, not just in Tenby, but across the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. Hi, I'm Vince. I'm Lucas. Hello, I'm Fiona. And I'm Derek. |
| 0:08.7 | And you're listening to a special podcast of our listener guest edit of the Today program, |
| 0:12.8 | recorded in Temby in Pembrokeshire. We've called our guest edit, Temby, life's not always a beach, |
| 0:18.8 | because we want to show today listeners what life is like when all the tourists leave |
| 0:23.1 | and explore the challenges that the community here faces. |
| 0:26.3 | In this podcast you'll hear from people like us living and working in Tembigh. |
| 0:30.8 | We'll also hear from politicians and experts as we explore. |
| 0:34.4 | First off, here's a bit more about us and our guest edits. |
| 0:37.9 | Hi, here's next please. |
| 0:40.3 | I have to bear with you because the system's a little bit slow today. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm Fiona. I'm Vince, the postmaster here at Temby. |
| 0:46.7 | I'm married to Vince and together we run Temby Post Office. |
| 0:50.3 | Along with Derek and Lucas, who are our customers we deliver to on our paper round, |
| 0:54.0 | we wanted to look our paper round, |
| 0:58.8 | we wanted to look at some of the issues we have in our town once the tourists have gone home. |
| 1:02.3 | We're more than just the pastel coloured houses in the harbour. |
| 1:03.8 | There we are, there's your receipt. |
| 1:08.6 | We've got 20, 40, 60, 70, 80, 90, £100. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm Derek, I'm the owner of a care home in Temby. |
| 1:17.3 | I'd like the listeners to go away and have an understanding that Temby is an absolutely amazing place. However, it's not without its struggles, mainly around lack of affordable housing, |
| 1:23.1 | 365 day-a-year jobs and public transport. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay, and there we go. There's your receipts. |
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