Radio London Non League Show visiting Saturday

At Saturday's game against Bridport we will be visited by a reporter from the Non League Show, which is transmitted by Radio London. The club will feature on the show a week or so after. The reporter will seek to interview a variety of people from the club during the afternoon, including supporters during the match.

This is the relevant website to listen to it:

www.bbc.co.uk/nonleague

Was anyone there on Saturday from the Non League Show.

Yes - reporter was there for about 5 hours Sat. Will let you know when i am told it will be broadcast - hopefully next Monday.

Yes, I was interviewed, along with a few others.

He was a nice guy in fairness to him

Always said you had the facefor radio Rich!

Mr Solihull Martyr: I was talking to a chap from Glasgow who said his brother-in-law was from Merthyr but was now living in Solihull.
His name is Evans!!! Do you know him?????

I am advised that the Radio London Non League feature is likely to be broadcast on Monday Dec 5th

Anyone know whether the broadcast is being made tonight?

just listened to tonights show and we were not on there tonight,probably next week i hope.

Caroline Baker of the Non League Show has confirmed this evening that they hope to broadcast the article on the Trust in their Christmas special show.

No specific date for this 'special show' was provided!

Tim Drummond wrote:Mr Solihull Martyr: I was talking to a chap from Glasgow who said his brother-in-law was from Merthyr but was now living in Solihull.
His name is Evans!!! Do you know him?????

Not - Evan Evans...?!!

The Non League Show has confirmed today that the article on the Martyrs will be broadcast during tomorrow evening's show which starts at 9.00pm.

Link to BBC Radio London

What Sky channel is it on Rob?

Mark unless you actually live in the London area you would need to set up the channel on frequency: 11.954 Polarisation: H! That's all the help I can provide I'm afraid!

If anyone is unable to tune in tonight you can catch up with the podcast in a few days time.

Thanks, but I'll wait for the podcast!

All I can get at the moment is live coverage of Crystal Palace v Birmingham City...

Rich you needed to head for Radio London FM (not DAB) - have to pick up podcast.

The coverage was good with lots of quotes from you among many others.

Don't know if you heard it old sod, but the item following was an interviiew with our old boss Neil Chambers about his book about Darlaston Town.

Quite a number of people were interviewed and recalled their favourite moments of watching the Martyrs and stated their reasons why Merthyr Town have been able to maintain football in the borough.
There was a lot of background noise, unfortunately, but the interviews painted an overall picture of the enthusiasm of the loyal supporters, a good template for any other club trying to run things themselves rather than rely on one man holding the purse-strings.
There was a mention of the televised FA Cup game with Walsall and a comment that the income generated was not ploughed back into the Merthyr Tydfil club.
Well, of course, as the club faced massive debts at the time, they didn't suddenly find themselves in the black from the red! And as I understand it, some of the pressing debts were paid off.
Otherwise, Merthyr Tydfil could have been liquidated much earlier than it was as there would have been more winding-up orders.
The facts behind the various regimes at Penydarren Park and what went on would make interesting reading. I probably only knew some things! But in whatever way the club was run, it still survived, somehow, until last year's liquidation, providing some base on which to build.
Now the club is fan-based, the people involved have football as their priority and they can plan accordingly with realistic hopes. The club is greater than the sum of the personalities of the past and having fought off fears can move forward.
The item should prove to be important to non-league devotees.

Listening to it for a second time this morning on the podcast, it was a smashing poignant biopic of the last 25 years.

In fact quite emotional by the end.

Anyone who wants to listen to the podcast but would only like to hear the section on the Martyrs, it begins 35 minutes into the broadcast and lasts for 7 minutes. The podcast will be available on line for the next 30 days or you could download it to your hard-drive or MP3 player.

Just listened to the podcast what a great show, i listened to the complete programme very interesting good coverage of the Non League i will certainly listen to future shows.

"We own our football club". Quality. Nice piece and a good podcast all-round, fairplay.

Up the - cooperatively run - Martyrs of Merthyr Town!

John Strand wrote:Rich you needed to head for Radio London FM (not DAB) - have to pick up podcast.

The coverage was good with lots of quotes from you among many others.

Don't know if you heard it old sod, but the item following was an interviiew with our old boss Neil Chambers about his book about Darlaston Town.

Just listened to it and enjoyed the coverage. It summed up what we're about. Yes, John, I stayed listening to hear Chubby Chambers. Sounds exactly the same as he was when he had the privilege of managing us. I think he took early retirement and moved back home to help care for his old dad and obviously enjoyed writing his book. He used to come up the Park when he lived in Cardiff usually when we were playing a team from the Midlands.

fistral10 wrote:Thanks, but I'll wait for the podcast!

Wandering wrote:The podcast will be available on line for the next 30 days or you could download it to your hard-drive or MP3 player.

Bl**dy hell - who say you cant teach (very) old dogs new tricks?!!

Next week: John Strand - Little Mix v the Saturdays - you decide.

Could someone pls post the link.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/nonleague - newest episode (21).