Darren Weale talks with Dr Puja Patel, GP and Clinical Lead for Urgent and Emergency Care in Bromley. Puja talks about the changes in the ways people can access local NHS health services, how they can prevent ill health, and a lot more.  Under the doctor's stethoscope on this episode, health options are discussed, including pharmacists, Bromley Well, Simply Connect Bromley, and Wellness Cafe's. The status of vaccinations on offer, the impact of the 1st October General Practitioners (GP) contract changes, and when and when not to call 999 are covered. Puja describes the 'Neighbourhood Health Service', and Darren refers to the new Talk Club at Contingent Works in Bromley. Then there is the One Bromley Wellbeing Hub on the 1st floor of The Glades Shopping Centre, and finally the use of triage in general practice We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Ray Dickens of Bromley Borough Foodbank.  From tinned meats to sweets, and helpful connections to help with housing, Bromley Borough Foodbank is a vital community resource. As the interview shows, the Foodbank provides easy essentials, Christmas hampers for the hard up, savoury extras, supermarket top ups with Sainsbury's, and dignity of choice. Ray mentions Joe from Sevenoaks, who is also well worth checking out. See his Instagram here.  Ray concludes with the thought that, "While people need us we'll be here." We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Dr Puja Patel, GP and Clinical Lead for Urgent and Emergency Care in Bromley. This episode is a trailer for further episodes in which Puja talks about the changes in the ways people can access local NHS health services, how they can prevent ill health, and more. In this episode, Puja describes what she loves about her work. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Aden Lane, volunteer and talk presenter at RAF Biggin Hill Memorial Museum and Chapel.  The interview covers the considerable history of the former military air base, which has importance in both world wars, research, and now commemorating the people who lived and died as that history unfolded. We talk about the numerous opportunities to learn that the Museum and Chapel offer now, both off and on site. We will be covering more topics that are explored and presented by the Museum in future episodes of the Bromley Buzz podcast. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks author Graham Whitlock ahead of the publication of his latest novel, Bertie and the Invisible Menace. The episode refers to a historic radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds from 1938, which can be heard here. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Billy Walton of The Billy Walton Band when they played The Beaverwood Club in Chislehurst during their most recent tour.  The short interview underlines what it means to touring musicians - and the people of South London - to have such music venues alive and well. The band is back at The Beaverwood Club on 22nd March 2026. We have also added a snippet of Billy's introduction to the crowd on the night. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with some attendees at the end of the Bromley BuzzUp free, all-sector networking meeting on 17 September at the Shampan at the Spinning Wheel restaurant near Westerham. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Sarah Marsh-Collings interviews Saif Zahran Founder of Art-Tech Space, from London Biggin Hill Airport.   Anoop Singh Bamrah of Falcon Flying Group is an Advisor to the Board of the company and was interviewed previously buy the Bromley Buzz podcast here.    We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale and Zeenat Noorani meet up at the Newman Flexible Workspace to record the historic 250th episode of the Bromley Buzz podcast. The podcast was named by Sarah Marsh-Collings from when we started with a pilot episode recorded in the Start Up Bromley facilities at Bromley Central Library on 4th August 2021.   We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Andrea Ellis, Head of Women and Girls at Bromley Football Club Community Trust. Andrea shares the rise of girls and womens and girls football at the club, which she has done so much to bring about.  This interview comes ahead of their free-entry 'Project 1000' home match on 28th September against Herne Bay, tickets here. And, on 11th October, an Octoberfest celebration at the clubs Broomfields venue, tickets here. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with people enjoying the recent opening of the new Free Little Library in Bromley Palace Park- Facebook page here and Instagram here.  The location is one of the few in our list of the Hidden gems of Bromley on the Bromley Buzz website. Darren talks with: Dawn Adamson, a Friend Of Bromley Palace Park Tony Banfield of the Bromley Civic Society and former Chairman of the Friends of Bromley Parks Children's author Allison Parkinson Volunteer builder and woodworker Andrew - apologies for inaccurately referring to 3 Little Libraries, there are currently 2, both of them lovely! We previously shared Cllr Jonathan Andrews, Mayor Of Bromley, speech recorded on the day, which can be heard here.  Listen to hear about St Blaise's Well; Penelope Pigstop; biodiversity; the moat and lake -  once the property of the Bishop of Rochester; the Boathouse that could be restored; birds such as coots, geese, ducks, herons, egret, little grebes, and bats to be found there and on the Merlin App; The Cascade; the Pulhamite Rockery rediscovered; the ha-ha; and the formal lawn. Above all the, wonderful people renewing this hidden gem. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Mark Goldberg and Jon Yantin from the Belle Collective, who are turning Bromley's historic hostelry The Royal Bell into a boutique hotel, community hub and hospitality venue, with bars, dining venues, co-working spaces, a members’ club, and event facilities. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

We hear Cllr Jonathan Andrews, Mayor Of Bromley, recorded when opening the new Free Little Library in Bromley Palace Park, after he is introduced by Dawn Adamson, a Friend Of Bromley Palace Park - Facebook page here and Instagram here - and Peter Lindford, Mayoral Attendant.  We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Zeenat Noorani talks with Brydon Duncan, Bromley-grown athlete and mental health advocate. Having been to Langley Park School For Boys, Brydon recently returned to the school to premiere his documentary film, Breaking The Circle, which was attended by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Jonathan Andrews. Brydon talks about his 'second home', Blackheath and Bromley Harriers, and how he hopes to be influential in helping to reduce the male suicide rate, alongside progressing his athletics career. You can hear more from Brydon in Zeenat's own podcast, Let's Talk Clarity. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

This is a recording of some of the opening section of the Bromley BuzzUp free, all-sector networking event held at VR3NXT in The Mall in Bromley town centre on 23rd July 2025.  Bromley Buzz podcast Founder Darren Weale speaks, then Cllr Gemma Turrell, Mayoress of Bromley, Atiya from the venue, Shampan restaurants, and finally Conor McGibney, Dungeon Master of Quest Soul Theatre's Bromley Dungeons & Dragons sessions, is introduced. The event continued after this point with that very exciting Dungeons & Dragons section.  We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property. talks with Davide Wheller of ASBO magazine and the ASBO Foundation. ASBO, "Set aight by youth culture", is at the the leading edge of youth content created with purpose, and a youth-driven leading music and fashion title whose beautiful, substantial magazine is cherished by lovers of the arts.  We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Davide Wheller of ASBO magazine and the ASBO Foundation. ASBO, "Set aight by youth culture", is at the the leading edge of youth content created with purpose, and a youth-driven leading music and fashion title whose beautiful, substantial magazine is cherished by lovers of the arts.  We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Anoop Singh Bamrah of Falcon Flying Group at London Biggin Hill Airport. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks again with Gareth Bacon, Member of Parliament for Orpington from his office in Portcullis House on the Parliamentary estate in Westminster. As Parliamentary recess approaches, Gareth reflects on his 6 years in Parliament, the demands of the job, meeting over 140 organisations already in his role as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, and "meeting good people doing good things for other people". Those include Sumeet Jalan, whose Big Jalebi Diwali celebration takes place in October, and Lauretta Wright, whose 'ABBBA' awards are also upcoming. More positives covered include Positive News magazine and the Smartphone Free Childhood initiative. Big Ben chimes in a timely manner during the recording. We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Frank Sisley and Eve Cartwright about Bromley Little Theatre's Youth Group. The interview was recorded on the stage of the theatre and Tony Jenner adds a few words late on while taking a short break from scene building!  From dancing backstage, to being professional onstage, Eve and Frank talk about some amazing experiences that build confidence and provide memories for life.  They talk about and perform extracts from the play The Radium Girls, crediting the support and brilliance behind the scenes at the theatre, and the kindness to be found there.  We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.

Darren Weale talks with Frank Sisley and Eve Cartwright about Bromley Little Theatre's Youth Group, as a trailer for the full interview. This excerpt captures the essence of what Bromley Little Theatre means to those involved, of all ages.   We are spreading the love! Do listen in and share the Buzz. You can find us on our website www.bromleybuzz.co.uk, where we feature local events here. We are also on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and You Tube. The Bromley Buzz podcast is sponsored by Shampan restaurants, London Biggin Hill Airport, and Ian Wood Property.