Eastern Promise - The Podcast
‘Eastern Promise‘ explores the full potential of the East of England. We talk to experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, disrupters and more, finding out why the Eastern region is the best place in the UK to start, run and grow a business. From architecture to zoology, every business has a place here, with Mike Rigby as your guide on this audio journey, celebrating and promoting our region. Eastern Promise also features the Plug Board; where a panel of three get to plug their own business, event or project in exchange for giving a plug to someone else in return. And there‘s also a bit of lighthearted audience participation in ‘CrowdSourcery’, where folk from across the East of England - and even beyond! - choose their favourite things on a given theme to share and celebrate! You can contact Mike at podcast@easternpromise.org.uk.
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Episodes
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mike returns to the Norfolk Showground to join the throng attending the EEEGR SNS2022 conference. MD of the RNAA Mark Nicholas takes us more of the exhibition space at the Showground; and Mike's Wymondham wonders are wobbly but stick with it!
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Mike gets caught out this week, as one of his Wymondham facts is a bit wobbly and now, only one is true! Fear not: the record is corrected and hopefully it will not detract from your enjoyment...
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association, Mark Nicholas MBE DL, talks to Eastern Promise about why the Royal Norfolk Show is the RNAA's flagship, the work the Association does and Mark and Mike take a turn around the Royal Norfolk Showground, looking for (and finding) opportunities to expand the RNAA's offer.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
Mike tells us all about Fakenham and gets to grips with the tricky business of chocolate-making. Well, tricky for Mike anyway...
Thursday May 26, 2022
Thursday May 26, 2022
With the 2022 Royal Norfolk Show just weeks away, Mike talks to Mark Nicholas MBE, Managing Director of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA) about how and why the Show is the Association's flagship event, the purposes of the RNAA and we also take a tour of the Showground itself. Then, Challenge: Anglia takes on Fakenham! Thank you to Mark for his time.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Do you know your fact from your fiction when it comes to North Norfolk and its coastline? Only one way to find out!
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Mike talks more with Emma Fletcher, MD of Evera Homes and Chair of the Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust.
Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
This week, Mike continues his chat with Emma Fletcher, MD of Evera Homes & Chair of Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust, looking at housing provision and how CLTs can help. We also taker a look ahead at what's to come on Eastern Promise, and did you spot the slippery customer on Challenge:Anglia's visit to North Norfolk?
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Mike takes you to Lowestoft and unveils which of our three tunas of truth is a flounder. He also gleefully profanes the memory of one of Norfolk's greatest heroes...
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
Mike chats to Norwich-based singer-songwriter Eliza Delf about her forthcoming album, 'Into the Wilderness', her unique sound and her East Anglian influences. Excerpts from 'Into the Wilderness' are featured here by kind permission of Eliza Delf.
Welcome to Eastern Promise
Eastern Promise is the podcast that explores the full potential of the East of England. We showcase that potential, celebrate it and share it with you, our listener.
From architecture to zoology, your host Mike Rigby takes you on a tour of the region, finding out things you din't know you didn't know and surprising you as to the scale of fantastic stuff that's happening under our noses.
Photo, left: Mike and Engineer 49 record a Plug Board episode at the boardroom at the EpiCentre in Haverhill, Suffolk.