Lancashire life, clipped and carried warmly.
The Unmissable Podcast is a brisk roundup of Lancashire stories, voices, visits, and local curiosities from BBC Radio Lancashire. It moves from Christmas appeals and football pride to hidden landmarks, public services, music, and everyday people doing memorable things.
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The Unmissable Podcast is a lively digest of Lancashire heard through the people, places, problems, and odd little landmarks that make local radio work. It is built from BBC Radio Lancashire moments, but it plays less like a bulletin than a guided trip around Lancashire. The pace is quick. The tone stays warm. A typical edition can begin with Christmas appeals, move into sad news about Mo Morland, stop for a hospice walking challenge, and close with carers singing together. Another heads from a royal visit in Burnley to rough sleeping support, Hope Street, and a creative writing story from the street. The show likes movement, but it does not rush past the human detail. Volunteers sorting toys, people looking for a brew and company, teenagers still hoping for a present, and shelves of basic food supplies all get time to register. Local pride matters here. So do local anxieties. Devolution, public consultation, building design, transport history, nuclear power, food poverty, and NHS memories appear alongside panto backstage bustle and affectionate county humour. The Hidden Lancashire strand gives the show one of its clearest signatures, turning benchmarks, bridges, forgotten places, and remarkable local stories into accessible radio discoveries. Sport brings a different energy. Burnley's title celebrations at Ewood Park arrive with noise, rivalry, and a note of unease when celebrations turn messy. Music also runs through the excerpts, from Eurovision joy for Lancashire's Ukrainian population to Cormac Thompson reflecting on Nashville. The programme is led by links, but not dominated by them. It trusts guests, reporters, and people on location to supply texture. That gives it a neighbourly, lived-in quality. Serious subjects are handled plainly rather than theatrically. Lighter stories land with a gentle grin. The result is a compact Lancashire scrapbook for listeners who like local life in motion: practical, sentimental, curious, and never stuck in one lane.
Made for: For listeners who want a rounded Lancashire catch-up with local voices, civic texture, seasonal warmth, and human stories. It especially suits fans of regional radio, community reporting, and short-form local discovery.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the mix: charity rooms, football grounds, observatories, food banks, panto wings, and forgotten landmarks all share the same conversational lane. The show turns a week of scattered broadcasts into one brisk, place-rich Lancashire journey.
A one stop shop where you can sample BBC Radio Lancashire’s best bits. Joe Wilson selects his favourite parts of BBC Radio Lancashire’s broadcasts from the previous week.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm Lancashire Christmas review with community stories, remembrance, practical ideas, carers, and a determined hospice fundraiser.
Christmas comes through here as a set of Lancashire community moments rather than a glossy seasonal backdrop. The programme moves from children talking to Santa and a vegan Christmas dinner made in an air fryer to tributes to Mo Morland, the former Roly Polies dancer who has…
A warm Lancashire visit where Christmas goodwill sits alongside practical support with gifts, food, and companionship.
Christmas in Lancashire follows Joe Wilson through a local portrait of people trying to keep the season generous. He begins with the Duchess of York in Burnley, then visits a drop-in service on Ivy Street for people who are rough sleeping, where a brew, conversation, and steady…
A warm Lancashire magazine episode connecting motorway history, community spaces, practical life, and stargazing.
BBC Radio Lancashire's Unmissable Podcast stays rooted in everyday Lancashire before lifting its eyes to the night sky. This single episode ranges from the 65-year story of the Preston Bypass, the UK's first motorway, to a new cinema space designed for children and young people…
A Lancashire-rooted mix of PMQs, food banks, local voices and a hidden benchmark.
The Unmissable Podcast filters Westminster through Lancashire, beginning with PMQs as political theatre before shifting to food banks preparing Christmas hampers for families under real pressure.
A wide-ranging Lancashire episode linking devolution, personal resilience, hidden places and music from Darwin.
Lancashire sits at the centre of this single-episode review, not as one tidy headline but as a county shaped by argument, memory, work and culture.
A warm Lancashire collage of community work, maritime place, humor and local recognition.
The Unmissable Podcast gathers a Lancashire mix into a warm portrait of everyday community life. A life-saving moment involving someone and their mum, a policeman compared with an American SWAT team, and a comedian describing six weeks of shingles sit beside more earnest local…
A Lancashire roundup visits alpacas eating Christmas tree needles and hears how Sipful's founder started the business before the pandemic.
BBC Radio Lancashire's Unmissable moves from a question about what to do with a Christmas tree to an alpaca enclosure and the canned-cocktail business Sipful. At the enclosure, the alpacas eat needles from a tree while their keepers joke that they are just there to feed them.
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A weekly compilation of the best bits from BBC Radio Lancashire, featuring local news, sports, music, and community stories.
A weekly compilation of the best segments from BBC Radio Lancashire, including news, interviews, and community stories.
Joe Wilson curates highlights from BBC Radio Lancashire's first week of 2022.
Amy Doran says Winston the former Blackpool donkey may be needed back before Christmas.
The Duchess of York visits Burnley with Father Alex Frost and Sarah’s Trust, praising the community’s "love and kindness" at St Matthew’s Church and nearby projects.
The Unmissable Podcast with Jo Wilson opens with the 1958 Preston Bypass, described by County Councillor Rupert Swarbrick as the first motorway in the UK and later widened from two lanes each way to four.
The episode opens with Lancashire Day, including the 2023 proclamation read by Amanda Parker, the new Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, and references to the County Palatine, the Red Rose, and November 27th.
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A weekly compilation of the best segments from BBC Radio Lancashire, featuring local news and interviews.
A weekly compilation of the best bits from BBC Radio Lancashire, featuring local news, community events, and human interest stories.
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A weekly compilation of the best moments from BBC Radio Lancashire, including a reminder about the Make a Difference Awards nominations.
A weekly compilation of the best moments from BBC Radio Lancashire, featuring local news, interviews, and community stories.
A weekly podcast sampling the best bits of BBC Radio Lancashire, featuring local news, events, and stories from the past week.