Lights Up, Carterton - Memory Club

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Chaos in Carterton

Improvised Radio Drama (Factual/Fiction)
Listen to Radio Drama Chaos in Carterton 

Written and performed by Lights Up Memory Club Carterton

Living Well with Dementia through the Arts Community Arts Workshop

   

The year is 1971, decimalization has been introduced, Middle of the Road charting with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Polly, a young struggling assistant on the Carterton Gazette, gets her first assignment. While trapped in a public house with local shoppers and market stallholders, she discovers a lot about the people and learns about their memories. From faggot making, joining the RAF, Saturday night dances, Jiving, Quickstep and seeing the all female Ivey Benson band in 1954, Polly comes away with a story that interests a well known Women's magazine.

Lights Up - Memory Club Chipping Norton- Video & Radio Project

Working with ‘Lights Up’ memory group to produce a video about their club. Lights Up - Living well with dementia through the arts. Lights Up is a partnership of organizations co-ordinated by West Oxfordshire District Council. The final film was shown at The Theatre, Chipping Norton on 12th April.

Lights Up Film
Lights Up Film made 

Partnership and further information see links below:

West Oxfordshire District Council

Chipping Norton Theatre

Lights Up Memory Club

Creative Dementia Arts Network 
Hospital Radio Cherwell

 

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Lights Up - Radio drama 

 Hear Radio Drama made with Lights Up group

A Very Strange Journey
 Lights Up - Living well with dementia through the arts. The Chipping Norton Memory Club remember a time in post-war Britain before computers, when Buddy Holly was in the charts and you had to find a payphone to call a friend. The Lights Up group using their memories develop an improvised radio drama. Where they find themselves stuck, at Chipping Norton train station. The year is 1957 and a small landslide followed by sheep on the track. Causes the train from Banbury to Wales to run 1 hour late.

 

Broadcast Wednesday evenings throughout December 2013 at 10pm  as part of 

The Midweek Theatre on Hospital Radio Cherwell

Broadcast the week of the 23rd December on Witney Radio    

2014 the drama broadcast on:

Preston Hospital Radio

Preston Hospital Radio 

 Banbury Live - Community Radio

Babury Live Community Radio

Newspaper write ups:

Witney Gazette - Radio Drama 

This Is Oxfordshire - Radio Drama 

 The Oxford Times - Radio Drama

Sharon Woodward (workshop artists) 

The best improvised line ever,  I thought I was going to have to be physically removed from the room. After the Spy leaves the briefcase in the WC and the Police Officer becomes suspicious, the line is uttered, “Watch that man carefully and make sure he doesn’t go to the toilet”. 

Sharon Woodward - Project and Films   

Sharon can also be found here  WoodwardMedia Facebook page