I. Cannot get to the island simply through thank us we were very lucky to be able to fly out there today and in fact when even when changed you could smell the sulfur before you knew that the cloud was slightly moving it would have to fly away from the patients or the g.p. Practice in Weston say they're having to go without potentially lifesaving medicine because of a shortage of doctors on site the horizon health center on the Bournville estate has been relying on highly trained nurses and paramedics to treat its 5000 patients Dr John Heather is from Pier Health Group Ltd which runs the horizon health center we are working really hard to make sure that happens clearly hasn't been happening . So we are doing things differently and hopefully better to make sure that the description is all that. And that people can get to see a g.p. Or a suitably qualified person visitors to 3 of Bristol's most popular open spaces could have to pay to park there in the future the city council is consulting on plans to introduce Penn display parking charges of the blaze cast list state or pre-court and snuff Mills the public consultation closes on Thursday the 19th of December Alister Blackwell the chair of the friends of blaze Castle says if they do start charging that money should be spent on improving the estate I think we've got to recognize if people come to blaze and they are now going to be paid for their parking that that money should be allocated to blaze and we should see some actual improvement in the staffing and resourcing of of the site because in cinema in Cleveland has raised more than 22000 pounds for its roof of pale by auctioning off old original roof tiles the $39.00 tiles are be turned into works of art by artists animators and illustrators including our admins Nick Park and Peter Lord the money will go towards repairing the roof to save the cinema from closure fund raising manager Karen Edgington says they still have a way to go to reach their target of 600000 pounds but they're hopeful of starting work next year when hoping that we can start work at the end to separate so we need something where we roughly were at about $460000.00 overall Now it's up to my mental arithmetic. So we're getting there we are getting there so there's still a little way to go and if we can start to separate that we're. On to the weather mostly dry and sunny this afternoon highs of 9 degrees Celsius b.b.c. Radio Bristol News It's 4 minutes past 2. Let's go ladies on the road situation with all of our had in Bristol through hang grove on Airport Road to the ring road there are delays because of road works especially towards. Both ways. And Cleveland placing these 2 keys and the Southwestern railway the. Checking before setting off and the 1000. Program in this. Area about a wonderful version of a Christmas Carol which is. One of the biggest. In considerable detail. With me in the studio. There was food all over the floor but boy did we have a good. I don't know this Martin but when you were out of the studio Ian came in and fiddled with your headphones and he put a couple of bits of metal down there and he's going to come back with his tools and I did put the point in the most he said don't touch those he said leave them. I did say that most professional engineers do carry their tools with them but I mean you just saw Swan's in he was trying to mend it with his pen ridiculous he tried to knit with a carrot the other day no I would not she genuinely like to see his qualifications as an engineer because I've not seen a certificate so what was he doing with that base salary in the fuse box the other day poking away yeah it's everything in the problem worse these people their Blackberries aren't they they're basically unemployable and they think they can walk talk the talk a bit but they can't walk the water coming out I'm an engineer wish comes in on a day when we happen to be short of Engineers given the chance it's a night rate only been here 30 years nobody asked for a qualification he hasn't mended my reel to reel tape recorder I was 25 years ago in this hour the show Steve Willie the actor and director is going to tell us about his wonderful one man version of Christmas Carol which has been performed before to great acclaim and won an award Well I did suggest to get more members of the cast in just a long load because it's a lot of work that way gets to keep all the money for himself so we're going to talk about his acclaimed version of a Christmas Carol at the Alma tavern plus Scooby Doo Doo the voice beautifully. Yes Scooby of course very friendly with Shaggy the I'm going to put it the youth you know not a drug user were led to believe just a sort of slack individual and you say that he did have a bit of a partial for the Scooby snack and what was in the yeah I dread to think but it's assumed it is hashish plus the forthcoming election will you be watching kingly Martin while will be I'll be there on the edge of my seat Yeah I can't wait when the results start coming in it's going to be excitement after a sudden after of doing a ballot my home do you like to go to a little bit of theater to the whole movie get the snacks we get the you know the nachos the dish the jerky and it's more of eating experience you haven't got to the tally. As is it forcible for the. One possible it's been a rough week affable No I said forcible it's a mixture of possible and Farmer is what I'm going to say is it possible to be a farmer and not have a ready face because I've met a lot of farmers over the years they'll have this very very exhibit exposure to the element they're very very ready face and all the alcohol they drink in the side or on Hay said that all may take a pitchfork smile you know they have got it and they will go for you plus this is serious are you concerned about the decline in sales of hot chestnut so very much they used to be 10 a penny when I was a kid my mum used to like chestnuts used to sell them on street corners these days you go to a new Waitrose all rever Tesco has asked to ask the hot chestnut You're not cold ones they haven't got the hot chestnuts anymore and I wish to be much from Portugal every street corner is the smell of chestnuts roasting on an open fire yeah they know what's good for them it's healthy it's organic and it's got a lot of fiber which is good for the gut is now what's happened to the chestnuts salespeople of the past because she got a good deal not just not from a few weeks ago. If you want to gamble with the program or suggest a dude of the day give us a call it's over 880-5949. Slow George Michael back in the charts this is how we want you to get high. Listen to local radio stations b.b.c. Radio Bristol Steve Jobs there with you on this Monday the 9th of December very shortly hearing about a wonderful production of a Christmas carol Christmas join a star Some comes on b.b.c. Radio Bristow Welcome to the downs it's boy day was it. You feeling proud this morning Bristow Saida has returned along with 56 other believes a smaller scale is just appearing from beyond the call of. The day which is much if it is going to successfully I just went you know I would simplify my listening to listen to this so much I want to say this was actually I still am a straight myself on b.b.c. Radio based. Was just take to 60 minutes past 2 and now it's time for my lovely guest in this hour of the show is the actor and director Steve Steve thank you for coming in thank you very much but I think Steve is appearing as himself in a Christmas Carol he's playing all the roles have a ring to morrow running through till Saturday it's a lovely reworking of the classic Dickens novella about in a moment about you where you from originally where were you born I'm from Bristol Well your interests did you go to university Fred I didn't so what did you do directly after school I went into I went to college college Ok so what exactly did you do directly after school was your 1st job as it were after college I worked for an agency in Clifton actually advertising agency that. Before the invention of the computer or your role then what were you doing there was like a junior paste up artist I said yeah and beautiful tight together for leaflets and flyers when I worked for an ad agency street when I was a teenager and it was just like that it was also a come pay stuff and then they'd send it off to get a photograph you know it was just before you know technology like a machine because a different era in effect was an arrow definitely you know Nice to see it oh yeah how do you create progress from then and then well I carried on within the advertising print trade for a number of years and then. 20 years ago. I went into cells and I now work for a company called Stage electrics and I'm on the cells team for them they're a big company there yes we saw lighting. A v 2 schools colleges universities internationally we did do some overseas trade know a lot but yeah I suppose that technology though House improved and finessed. Things got smaller and more intelligent especially would like to which is on the. Range now here. Tungsten stuff is. Really well when you look at the desks they have if you go to the Hippodrome or something you have a lighting desk and a sign I guess I mean a lot of it is preprogrammed anyway and you know this or you see it but it's so odd to me it's another world oh yeah it's like programming program basically for a show and yet it's absolutely crucial to the message of the success but to the effect of a show if it's correct you almost don't notice it but it is not correct no it sticks out yeah the audience will notice if it's not right when it does happen I mean I do think lighting is crucial not just in the article I was sent to my wife about this in restaurants when they get the lighting wrong particularly if it's too light you know I think it can create the more mood you need to you know cozy nesting I sometimes because the range of these days can be very bright and it needs taken back sometimes to travel right. Then no you know I'm based in pursuit of a stop at Patchwork. I think orifices up and as far as your own background as an actor go you've been acting all your life a great part of it yeah I think I started when I was 14 which is quite a few years you know what tried to do initially when you were a young man there I think it was because my parents or my dad was involved in the local church group as children we used to get taken along to see them in all things and it's just something that fascinated me a bit I suppose it's all went from there and you've been involved in several local imam It almost sounds pejorative does yeah they say I'm dramedy it's a norm professional professional you know the expression you've been involved in several groups over the years and have Yeah quite a few I've worked with there was backstage productions as we were talking earlier on picket lines to direct. Productions with block. Records over the St Mary's players who I've actually been involved with as an actor but also directing for them and you were with pro-active these days which you create co-founded didn't you before yes before that what was the show that was the standout for you that you'd been involved with looking back at your career as an actor one of the ones that I would say would be probably the producers the musical or the producer yeah I was lucky enough to play Max Bialystock in that great role is brilliant so it's good fun and sometimes when you know you got cast and script like that and the show's already got a reputation you've got to go through the motions and give it something even if you don't confident it's going to be a winner Oh yes it was and it worked really well Ok well a really good production I mentioned you were you founded pro at Theatre Company in 1991 with Andy Ford Tell me about Andy was he did and what he bring to the party well he's our producer as such so he. Puts up the funding to put the productions although he must have a love of theatre Oh yes oh yes just he's a gambler. He's a gambler and I think. He was involved in. Amateur theatre as well itself and when you put together the company what was your sort of dream at the time what did you want to do with the company probably mainly to do plays straight drama comedy drama whatever but. You know produce stuff that perhaps not every group would be doing we've done obviously we had to do something so your 1st show was popcorn the band out. Which went well presumably that was a great You've also I see one that you've appeared and I know you've appeared a lot them Educating Rita that you 200 you were the only friend that were there that's a great show that's brilliant. You also swimming with sharks now what was that film originally it was it was Kevin Spacey saying it was in life it was a look take on the backstabbing and everything in Hollywood yes the film in public or accurate yes it was fake and you played in Oliver Twist Yes I again for all of a twist the play that we did yes I adopted a script from the original novel but it didn't make it easy for yourself to you know you were also in Equus the classic play which is about the horses across the view from a bridge that is a perennial favorite isn't Arthur Miller's middle do you have a good accent for that idiot I wasn't actually in that when I need to read I directed that you've directed many other productions over the years but the one that you're putting on this week is a Christmas carol the festive masterpiece it's a one man show and you've staged it once before a couple years ago your performance was an award winner he won of the Rose Bowl one of those best actor which is a very very fine thing to get and you as you alluded to personally adapted this from the original Dickens but. Again this was the sort This is the 2nd one I've actually adapted of a decade novel How did you start with something like that I'm try try to look for. The characters that people identify with there's a there's quite a few in the actual novel itself but it's mainly the main ones of the Bob Cratchit the Tiny Tim The Ghost of Christmas Present Past Future and certain other characters that may not be as familiar to people but they are in the book is one thing adapting a book for the stage and it's another thing adapting a book for the stage for one person yeah. It is a bit of a challenge I will say that. There is I suppose there must be $25.00 different characters plus other variety of accents with different accents and because obviously when it's warm on the audience got to see who's actually saying well so you know it's just defining it yeah exactly and it's moving from one character to another isn't the audience appreciate that yeah so they realise the instance so you go from one straight into another and then also the sword in the ration in between drives the story along well as you mentioned you reenact a host of characters including most of the notable ones all of us know Charles Dickens who I suppose is a form of narrator Scrooge Bob Cratchit ghost of Christmas past Christmas present and Christmas Yet to Come Isabel Tiny Tim says awake and also suffer mentally characters a. Slightly different voice is what I try to. Everyone should be individual sometimes when you're coming out of one into the other you think that sounded like the last one but you know that's a no surprise voice have you chosen for screwed himself quite well and I just give me one line in his voice yeah. Humbug. Out upon Merry Christmas What's Christmas but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year not a penny richer if I had my will every idiot who goes about with merely Christmas on his lips should be boiled with his own putting and buried with a stake of holly through his heart he should. Karsh wonderful writing there from Dickens I have to say brilliant you did this is a mention a couple of years ago and we were laughing during the record saying that you've got to remember again because I said you put a lot full of effort into memorizing it the 1st time and then you've discarded am Hugo I guess other stuff and your brain is to go on so did you come to it fresh almost this time it was like coming back to it as a fresh lead up to write it this time not. Something yeah it's taking Well 6 weeks to get it back up to speed and get into the brain how does it run an hour or so it's just an hour and a quarter running straight through there's no break you just go straight and I presume as well as altering your accent your the way you move your body changes for different characters and also on moving the furniture around the stage to different areas of where they go do you use costumes or props or anything I just did one basic Victorian look alike costume so when color if you can keep changing out of it we get ridiculous and you know I don't wear a coat and I take off halfway through and see what you wrote the armor tavern theater which is a lovely small theater and people get really close to the action they're very intimate and you're be good on the old lighting what your background is you know I was reading on the website it says is Rev a relevant and thought provoking today as it was when it was 1st published in 843 and it resonates just because it has that simple message is the simple story. Has such a lot of power behind it and it is relevant today because of. His poor clogged up Pratchett and his family struggling you know people on 0 hours contracts with you over Christmas is the same thing it's history repeats itself all the way through this production will remind us all of the true spirit of Christmas and that's what's nice about it has written a lovely sort of buoyant resolution that you know and this is not a it takes away the commercialism of it tells us what Christmas is about really sort of you know rushing to the shops and spend. You know for to know everything how do you feel on the eve of the 1st night. But no vs Did you have a snifter before you go you know it. Was your voluntarily doing it on your yes there was forcing I'm sure would be a very warm crowd so Ok well if you'd like to see a Christmas Carol which is Steve will is one man show is that the hour Metatron theater opens tomorrow run through till Saturday I don't know if there's a matinee as well as I know at the moment but there has been a run on tickets I assume because of the season it is and yes people like to see this one there's still a very good ability I believe for the end of the week Ok you need to go to the have a website which is w w w dot com a tavern and theater dot co dot u.k. . Yeah I don't know how many I left there are some Ok Well every success with Steve I'm sure would be a winning night out anything else on the horizon at the moment in the New Year yes . Directing this time for St Mary's players a company I mean as I said involved with before they're doing the musical Titanic Carly Yes which is an American musical that lots of people clubs have done over here in the u.k. But let's hope you can miss the iceberg this time for more of the ending Yes And then for next November which is already booked in I believe we're doing a play for pro act. Called Joan and bet which is that Davis and Joan Crawford are and it serves all when they were making the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane is all in the intrigue and everything kept firing that yes exactly another next November at the Elma I believe Ok Well every success thank you for coming today Steve really nice to meet you very much that's Steve really the actor and director and you can see his one man version of a Christmas Carol of course the Charles Dickens classic which he personally is an adopted at the top and theater opens tomorrow runs through till Saturday check a ticket availability by phone in the know looking at the website. And theater don't. Through. Speech. From. L