Surrey people, places, and plans.
Brooklands Radio Features is local radio as a rolling community noticeboard, built from studio chats and event updates. It moves quickly from hospice fundraisers and care advice to sailing open days, youth work, circus tours, and television anecdotes.
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Brooklands Radio Features works like an audio noticeboard with people attached. The show gathers interviews and field-style features from Surrey, then lets guests talk through the practical details that matter locally. It is brisk, friendly, and rarely abstract. A hospice update can start with a Dragon Boat Race at Goldsworth Park, move to family-day logistics, then turn toward a 4K Ribbon and Hearts walk around Horsley Towers. A care conversation can begin with a Weybridge Library Hub event and become a plainspoken reminder that walking, chair movement, handrails, and balance exercises can keep older people safer at home. The programme is strongest when it turns community work into something tangible. Rita Nakalawa’s interview, for example, frames volunteering through schools, Jubilee High, St Paul’s Youth Cafe, purpose, faith, and safe spaces for young people. Another Woking and Sam Beare Hospice conversation handles a Muslim awareness campaign with care, talking about extended families, carers, palliative care, and the importance of support around patients and relatives. There is lighter material too. The Events Guide moves cheerfully through sailing at Papercourt Sailing Club, sound baths at Kew Gardens, open farms, refreshments, cake, and free local days out. Entertainment interviews bring a different kind of texture, from Priyash discussing The Apprentice interviews and The Sipologist to Lee describing Circus Vegas, tour life, magic acts, tents, travel, and family audiences. The questions are simple on purpose. They ask who, where, when, what it costs, and why someone should care. That directness gives the show its value. It is not a polished narrative podcast or a national culture programme. It is local radio doing local radio well: useful, conversational, sometimes repetitive, often charming, and anchored in the everyday machinery of community life.
Made for: For Surrey listeners who want local events, community causes, care advice, charity updates, and friendly interviews in a straightforward radio style.
What sets it apart: Its strength is proximity: named places, practical details, and guests explaining real local work rather than broad lifestyle commentary.
Brooklands FM covers many events in Surrey both live on air and visiting with our roving recorder, capturing sounds for the website and later broadcast. As well as our live events coverage, we also have studio interviews with local people. In this podcast you can listen to our local coverage of events and hear some of the best bits of BFM again.
Reality-TV debriefs meet youth-work purpose and lemon crumble, so your curiosity never gets one lane.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A sincere local award story rooted in school volunteering, faith, teamwork, and concern for young people's belonging.
Rita Nakalawa's Volunteer of the Year award becomes a grounded story about service, faith, and finding purpose through local work. Her volunteering in schools in and around Runnymede, including Jubilee High, sits alongside the thinking behind St Paul's Youth Cafe at St Paul's…
A frank chat about The Apprentice, corporate work, and a rebranded cocktail business.
Lois Miller's conversation with Apprentice star Priyash keeps its focus on work first, then television. He explains that before the show he was at PwC as a global account relationships manager, while also building a mobile cocktail bar business that was Busy Bar and is now The…
A reality-TV interview that keeps returning to the finale clips, the embarrassment, and Kira's season-three run.
Kira's Love Island chat leans into the awkward, watch-it-back side of reality TV, and the strongest stretch comes from her memory of season three.
A warm studio tasting turns tray bakes, Biscoff, and lemon crumble into an easy local baking story.
Jackie Butterick's Saturday radio visit settles into an inviting local baking piece, moving from cakes first found online to Christmas gifts made for advertisers in Weybridge.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
Naval Ravikant on epistemology, startups, and crypto, from David Deutsch to Vitalik Buterin.
Alex Theuma interviews SaaS founders and investors on scaling to $10M-plus ARR.
Guy Raz traces founders' origin stories and fields live advice-line calls from entrepreneurs.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Jackie Butterick, a baker from Woking, joins Brooklands Radio to discuss her home baking business.
Stu from the Laughing Chilli Comedy Club discusses upcoming shows in Surrey, including sold-out events in Sunbury and Claygate.
Scarlet Black studies Amy Winehouse without sound to reproduce her mannerisms and honour an iconic performer.
Charlie Swift discusses Isha Theatre’s five-year anniversary and a 18 September variety show featuring Anita Harris, Bobby Davro, Lee John, Peter Straker, John Altman, Hungry Grass, and Julius Caesar performers.
This episode highlights a free open day at Paper Court Sailing Club in Surrey where beginners of all ages can try sailing and learn about membership opportunities.
Rita Nakalawa discusses winning Volunteer of the Year at the Runnymede Civic Awards after volunteering more than 30 hours weekly with schools around Runnymede.
Rachel Lawrence from Norfolk House Care Home discusses a falls prevention event at Weybridge Library Hub, offering tips and exercises to help older adults stay safe and active.
This episode features an interview with Felicity Edwards discussing upcoming fundraising events for Woking and Sam Beare Hospice, including the Dragon Boat Race on June 7th and the Ribbon and Hearts walk.
Lois Miller keeps things friendly.
This episode features an interview with Jenny Thornton from Right at Home discussing falls prevention, exercises for mobility, and the home care services available for elderly individuals in the community.
This episode features an interview with Nicola Cloherty, an energetics-led business strategist, discussing the Sacred Compass, a seasonal immersion series for women that blends functional energetics, emotional intelligence, and practical strategy to support personal and professional growth.
Kyra Lizama starts with the basics: joining Love Island USA in 2021 as an OG, making the finale, finishing second, and falling for Will.
Diana Roberts shares details about Flandham Park shepherding experience days, where participants can learn about caring for rare white-faced woodland sheep during lambing season, with proceeds supporting conservation efforts.
This episode highlights a free charity fundraising walk organized by Guildford Rotary in Surrey, offering details on how local charities can participate without logistical burdens.
This episode features an interview with garden designer Rachel Joyce, discussing her work, the scope of garden design projects, and common challenges people face with gardening.