Exeter Stories

Exeter Stories

Exeter Stories showcases the changemakers, entrepreneurs, and community leaders transforming Exeter and the Exe Valley. Host Paul Batterham interviews local heroes building a better future across health, culture, business, and social innovation.

Discover inspiring stories from brilliant people doing brilliant things right on your doorstep. From a multi-agency support model, to a volunteer-run theatres, to a vision of the city as a place for everyone, each fortnightly episode showcases the positive impact happening across our region.

Perfect for residents, business leaders, and anyone interested in community development, local innovation, and grassroots changemaking in Devon.

New episodes every other Wednesday on all major platforms.

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This podcast has been made possible by the support of the University of Exeter's Innovation team, and the Arts & Culture team.

The idea grew out of civic innovation workshops led by Julie McLaren and Kate Jago in early 2024. Without their work bringing together Exeter's movers and shakers, this podcast wouldn’t exist.

Thanks also go to Adrian Webb at Outcome Path for marketing support and for encouraging me to think bigger and bolder.

And finally, to all of the interviewees: thank you for being candid, funny, serious, passionate, and for all the brilliant things you do.

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Episoder(20)

Malcolm Mardon: 50 Years of Hospital Radio

Malcolm Mardon: 50 Years of Hospital Radio

Malcolm Mardon, chairman of Hospital Radio Exeter, tells the story of a station that has been on air since 1974, and reflects on fifty-one years of walking hospital wards, collecting requests, and kee...

26 Aug 34min

Ellie Taylor: What Exeter's Oldest Community Charity Has Learnt About Lasting Change

Ellie Taylor: What Exeter's Oldest Community Charity Has Learnt About Lasting Change

Ellie Taylor, Chief Executive of Exeter Community Initiatives, traces the thirty-year history of one of the city's oldest charities and explains why the most important outcomes of its work are often t...

12 Aug 40min

Nick Hall: Music in Devon Initiative and The Devon Music Scene

Nick Hall: Music in Devon Initiative and The Devon Music Scene

Nick Hall and Dave Knox of Music in Devon Initiative (MIDI) share the story of a decade spent building the infrastructure Devon's music scene never had, and reveal the two city centre spaces that are ...

22 Jul 36min

Jen Harris: Leading the Cloth Nappy Revolution

Jen Harris: Leading the Cloth Nappy Revolution

Jen Harris, founder of the Baby Room on Paris Street, traces an eighteen-year journey from a cold scout hut in Heavitree to one of the most essential community spaces in Exeter, and makes an unanswera...

8 Jul 45min

Debbie Bucella: Alibi and the Case for Children's Creativity

Debbie Bucella: Alibi and the Case for Children's Creativity

Debbie Bucella, Chief Executive of Alibi, tells the story of one of Devon's most significant arts organisations; forty years of taking world-class theatre into school halls, and a reinvention that tur...

24 Jun 34min

Maresa Bossano: Building a Community Food Hub on Cowick Street

Maresa Bossano: Building a Community Food Hub on Cowick Street

Maresa Bossano, founder of Love Food CIC, shares the story behind Exeter's community food hub on Cowick Street in St Thomas, and makes a compelling case for why local, plant-based food isn't a lifesty...

27 Mai 38min

Will Adamsdale: Building Exeter's Comedy Scene From Pub To Festival

Will Adamsdale: Building Exeter's Comedy Scene From Pub To Festival

Perrier Award winner, actor, and the man behind Locally Sourced comedy night, Will Adamsdale traces the unlikely journey from a comedy emergency in a Sidwell Street cafe to founding Exeter's own annua...

22 Apr 39min

Lightbear Lane: Building Culture and Community Across Exeter's Streets and Stories

Lightbear Lane: Building Culture and Community Across Exeter's Streets and Stories

Dr Sarah Spencer and Dr Judith Morgane, the partnership behind arts and heritage organisation Lightbear Lane, share how they are using community film, creative mapping, Shakespeare and asset-based dev...

8 Apr 43min

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