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Sep 2020
54m 12s

CoronaCast - Edition 6

STEPHEN WEST
About this episode

Our final edition comes from the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham which is where we started.

In this edition, we’ll be hearing from the manager of a local charity for disabled children and young people about how it has had to adapt to the Coronavirus lockdown.

We’ll be catching up with the landlord of The Newbuy pub who’s turned his gin distillery into a hand sanitiser factory to supply key workers.

And we’re finding out how the Nature Discovery Centre is slowly beginning to re-open when we speak with the centre manager.

To mark the end of this series, we end on a musical note with an Irish ballad 'What the Piano Knows' by Dave Corwin and Catherine Ashcroft written to offer hope in a time of great uncertainty and anxiety.

Links to web sites featured in this edition:

Nature Discovery Centre

PALS - Children's Disability charity in West Berkshire

The Newbury - Visit the Landlord Pete Lumber, enjoy a drink and a meal or support his hand sanitiser project

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