What a night!  It was absolutely marvellous..... and to top off the great entertainment (Robert Hardy, CBE and our Auctioneer, Sam Butler) we raised almost £8,000.00 for the Theatre! The food was fantastic, the audience in high spirits and the evening a tremendous success! Thank you so very much for allowing me to come and ‘chat’ about our event and of course for your support of the Theatre.  In this day of economic downs, you came through and made this the evening that it turned out to be .. no matter the snow, no matter the icy cold weather ... people came, people put their hands in their pockets and paid a lot of cash to take home each and every one of the wonderful donations.  Thank you so very much!

Gayle M. Eastell

Want to be close to NCCR? Are you looking for a small office 10 square metres in area? Then Chipping Campden is the place for you. The Campden & District Peelers Trust have an office to let. For further information e-mail  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   or contact The Peelers Trust - tell them NCCR sent you.

This week on Cotswold Community we'll be talking to local writer and entertainer Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers. Chloe will be joining an intrepid team of Flying Authors for a day of dashing round Gloucestershire libraries on Saturday 4 February & she'll be at the NCCR studios this Wednesday to tell us all about it. To celebrate the second National Libraries Day, at the end of National Storytelling Week, Chloë dons her dragonproof cloak to appear as Agent Green, Dragon Whisperer, and tell stories from her forthcoming CD and book Dragon Tales.

Chloë's free family storytelling sessions take place at Winchcombe Library 10.15am-10.45am, Chipping Campden Library 11.45am-12.15, Moreton in Marsh Library 1.15pm-1.45pm and Stow on the Wold Library 2.15pm-2.45pm.

Information about 4th February events arranged by library users around the county have been posted at  www.foclibrary.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/national-libraries-day-in-gloucestershire-programme-of-events/

Information about National Libraries Day at  www.nationallibrariesday.org.uk/

Read all about Agent Green and Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers at www.midnightstorytellers.co.uk

Our intrepid co-presenter, Freya Leng, won't be with us in the studio but she'll be ringing in from a lively Town Council meeting at Bourton-on-the-Water to tell us the latest news & gossip!

This week on Cotswold Country we have a very special guest talking to us on the telephone from his home in Brighton.

At around 12.30pm, Jim Marshall a stalwart of Country Music in the UK for over 40 years and not only a founder of the British Country Music Association but also producer and presenter of BBC 's Radio Brighton Country music show for many years will be giving us the lowdown on how Country Music has evolved over the last 40 years in the UK.

We also will be playing tracks selected by Jim plus more tracks from the Randy Travis 25th Anniversary album we featured last week.

As usual at around 12.15 pm we will be taking our weekly look at the USA charts and then at around 1.00pm the easy listening segment features two tracks from Randy Travis plus one each from "The Judds " and "Trisha Yearwood ".

Then at around 1.30pm the Classic segment will feature tracks from Randy Travis , CW McCall , Tammy Wynette and Merle Haggard .

So we do hope you can join us for some if not all of Cotswold Country this Saturday 12.00pm -2.00pm on NCCR

all the best John Bowlt

Canadian singer-songwriter Josh Taerk will be talking to Tom on the
Saturday Breakfast Show after 9am tomorrow (21st January) as he embarks
on a tour of the UK. We'll ask him why songwriting is so important to
him, find out about the story of his first performance and also about
how perfoming here differs from gigging across the pond. Tom will be on
air as usual from 8 with the best mix of music to get you going in the
morning, along with film reviews and the latest local, national and
international news.

Special guest on this Friday's edition of The Diary Room (6.30pm-8.30pm) will be author, historian and journalist Nell Darby. Nell has written several books about the seedier side of this most bucolic corner of the country, including 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in the Cotswolds' and, more recently, 'Olde Cotswold Punishments'. Appropriately enough she'll be 'doing a bit of bird' in The Cooler herself this Friday when she pops in to discuss her work and lift the lid on some of the more unsavoury goings on in the Cotswolds over the centuries!

There'll be plenty of  STATUS  QUO  on the Double Decade this Friday lunchtime (6th January) as we're going to be joined in the studio by John Coghlan who for almost 20 years was part of that band.

As usual the show starts at 12.30 so please join me then for the first show of 2012.

Andy Garside.