City agreement to switch. In the competition. In the week. Good morning. Through the morning with. 4 degrees Fahrenheit. And as the. 7 degrees that's 45 degrees Fahrenheit. And also the kitchen this morning we are having a look forward to the Ludlow medieval fair which would just give me the date of the event when you go you know it is the 23rd and 24th of November so next weekend and this has been going on quite a while hasn't it yes we're actually coming right this year and this is our 21st year wow how did you all start up well. The bank I started you know a lot like I also spoke to me about the fact that I was at that point running a profitable in the spring right there with the summer arts festival and the autumn food festival which I was working on at that time and said you know what we need we need an outdoor festival. You know in the winter that would be great it'll be fun so we did some research into all festivals most people events around the country and came up with Ludlow medieval Christmas fare and how easy is it to have a mediæval themed thing because obviously it's quite nice she tells you the number of people the. Class is medieval right it certainly is so we've got a core if you like of people who are on what you might call the medieval circuits Reichl traders who do. Reproduction and jewellery leather wear clothes and so on but we've also got 2 other kind of main categories of people who come in the independent craftspeople and the independent food and drink producers and what they do is they dress up they dress their stall appropriately in order to encourage people we actually have a competition for the best dress outside store and the best dressed all in the marquee and people actually get quite competitive modified so that I have to say over the years the standard of. Dress that people put together they way they decorate best all the way they join in has just come up and up and up obviously of our stewards and everybody who's working on the event is in that evil costume as well 20 years ago when they speak out yes they the landscape of Christmas festival the Christmas markets was very different from it is now it definitely was I mean obviously there are a lot of German style markets across the country and those are absolutely great and people love them but we do offer something I think really unique when people walk through the gate into that wonderful night even castle they kind of walk back in time we've got just as we've got roving musicians we've got 2 stages that throughout the festival have got a rolling programme of music dance fighting night theatre all sorts of things storytelling so there's that real feel that you don't quite know what you're going to fall over around round the next corner so it's a very very experiential time you know if a festival to come to an unfortunate event like this that goes on it's very much a calendar event for a lot of people that go in year in year out in terms of finding exhibits isn't traders so you've got the right blend of the learning a bit of history getting a bit of nostalgia but also being able to buy a few Christmas tree kits or stocking shelves when the show how easy is it now as time has gone as it got easier or harder as there's been more complete competition if you like very very much easier I think because we are unique because we offer something to the public that they just love people get very excited about the event . People you know traders want to come to us and we're very strict on our conditions you've got to dress up I think Ok so you know there's a lot yet. Yeah. I one of the things that I do every is I go around the stalls on patrol ranch so all the women have got to have. Covered have something on their head we don't have the mediæval thought police out we don't say that alcohol is wrong you know That's it yeah you know yeah it's this. But we do go around and say well I'm sorry you know you can't actually wear an anorak over the top of your lovely medieval costume Here's a cape is a well in Cape so we spent quite a lot of the year dying and blankets and making them into capes and waistcoats and Unix and so I want them quite a lot of the fair going around going Yeah Ok you're costumes up to speed but yours isn't he has a hat that's Ok and if anybody hasn't been to the event before how much did you get in was the format off shore so we open on Saturdays our longest day so we're open from 10 right the way through to 9 in the evening on Saturdays Sunday is the normal day time from 10 till 4 ticket price cheapest in advance you can book online and she where you get your cheapest prices so adult 12 pounds we do concessions also family tickets we do also have a Saturday evening only ticket so if you just want to join us for $6.00 to 9 pm and that's a 7 pounds and then also Tickets available on the gate as well but on the lines where you can get our cheapest ticket price and when you look at the people attending a local or people travelling from from far and wide How does that sort of power it was very interesting actually we did a bit of an exercise in this earlier in the year looking at exactly that question of you know where all people coming from because we know that our exhibitors come as far afield we have people from Scotland have people from Cornwall we have a real spread in our exhibitors So we're looking into our visitors and it's actually pretty similar with our visitors as well right I think we have a real core loyal group of people who are released. Start the Christmas season with us which is lovely and we have some lovely kind of community things on Facebook and our social media of people really wanting to start celebrating Christmas with us because we're always the last weekend that falls entirely in November I think people go Ok we're allowed to start feeling a little bit festive you know it's not too yeah but you know we get we get people sort of fairly far afield really I mean we do find accommodation in Ludlow really fills out you know people come to make a weekend of it you know where obviously the castle is absolutely beautiful We've got an amazing setting but we're also in an amazing town that's got a lot lot to offer as well so we do find people travel from quite far to come and make a weekend of it and logistically in terms of putting marquees up and everything that goes with it in what has been an incredibly wet winter of light Well this cause you any headaches or problems or not we've already started getting the Marquis's up one of the things that we do during the event is we have tracking down on the rocks. On the Casa grounds and areas where we can put tracking straw Yes beautifully made authentic. And actually I do find round about June I think I probably get the last straw out of the house right Ok yeah it looks out on the because he ran for Obviously you think you've done it and then you get some more but actually we brought in some extra tracking the marquee started going up on Thursday so we brought in some extra tracking for that so that we're not damaging that the ground but in terms of yeah people walking around and also people coming in and setting up we've got tracking down so we're able to see right away to carry on yeah that. And it's our experience I have to say to yourself maybe even well he's. Missed a trick. Because it takes I will talk to some of the producers and retailers that you can find in the. And at the festival itself we'll also hear from the chocolate festival is currently underway intrigue 310 cent to Andy Broxton is down there we'll hear from him in a couple of ticks after this from should nice and I love you small. Yes. Looking forward to. Next weekend but. There is also the chocolate festival. Of poorness least there's some weather chocolate going on you'll definitely find me there I am in the center of Mary's Church and as you walk through the door not only does the smell of chocolate hit you square in the face but as you make your way left and start walking around the exhibition there is actually the smell of mulled wine and this gentleman is here with me your in charge of the old one to believe mold wine which he smells Cartman Paul to put some cinnamon in there so it's really nice when you open the lid to say this is brilliant and then hot chocolate which we've got some of the finest Belgian chocolate things. Together. Rich and delicious creamy in fact and I gave you want to hope you enjoyed it was really very nice and then in the end of the desk you've also got some beers which is looking pretty nice as well talks about this Janet chocolate it's made by Samuel Smith in your share we have sold so much of this yesterday that we're down to our last 5 or 6 bottles today but it's really nice it's the states and then you get real chocolate kick it's very smooth it's a really nice drink fantastic Well if they don't also like the most finish speaking so you pull them have to come back over there but let me walk through the venue a little bit further now because there's loads of exhibitors here just to my left hand side there's little chocolate balls going on here and there's a lady here I think selling fresh this morning I'm Hannah her experts on it why fudge and when she came to fudge I always love making fashion it's always been a passion of mine I've made it when I was young and yet just took off 4 months ago I decided to turn it into a business. And what flavors if you go because you've got quite a lot of different things Mr scavenging we have we've got our standard flavors which are cappuccino Pinella Brahman raisin chocolate and then we've got our Christmas flavors gingerbread shock. Shock orange white chocolate and crumb Bray and whiskey cream just a lot of there's a few flavors it really is there are so many which is the best one. Definitely chocolate it's time to enter or my Saltires is about the kick that I'm guessing with the ginger that is this made chocolate mass and then you get. You know old hands of the hates when you get this them to just say yeah it's very popular you have to make someone's a Christmas a what what people reckonings days yeah really really popular and I got a Christmas selection box as well which I got for the flavors and you know it's not serious and it's Ok there's people sort of making their way across take some of that enables the friends they all look fantastic. People thank you very much there's also a pool a demonstration going on of the name and they're just and it's all through exactly what chocolates going to different products and high things and they and as I walk past there's some fantastically glazed chocolate sort of spacey Hello these look like stones What are they I mean they are all individual chocolates home decorated home painting it and something to reflect the flavor inside them whereby see from the inside like local accents where we're not local no way based in Manchester so we had a nice to have a drive down there said nice church our factory tonight but it's worth it for a really lovely chocolate festival like this why should be there because I see it's not like it's a very close to Manchester it's a bit of a disability drive for you presume that is one of the people in the on they'll send to look at the chocolate Why sure is Barry and we were placed on line it's a bit clueless so we pop also sit for the festival solo country and this one has a really good high quality level and the produces a nice to get together to share their love for Gadhafi chocolate with customers and . So on and yes it is a living will of the well even than some parts of Manchester as well what if you made the time safe as such they are $38.00 doing the chocolate festival so apparently it was an aquarium last year it's are a really lovely place to be and I actually feel sorry sort of small town but yet has the recession on Christmas lights on means it's on so you see in the future some of it trying to stick around for those even show they'll be some to see if I can untangle myself from this one poll let me walk over here because I've just seen it will look like the most delicious I presume brownies Hello Guys what are you doing today. For Archie of different brownies on show as well as some of probably the biggest cookies most people in the. We have seen. That we've come in with ice brownies a selection of not products. I came to burners and then we've got another variety that just simply going off on still on a Wish we brought more. Limited by Spice I was going to say but they do look fabulous to go into what made you want to get into doing brownies that well business is actually my brother in law's. Side Up 2014 he's always had a passion for chocolate worked in development and then just decided to love it solo and then brownies was I market a lot of people were doing their own original take on just the buy but nobody was doing anything new innovative with it imo mixing anything in with the launch we've originated the pin and I think the Jaffa Cake wants to start off we have and I just took off a storm just developed developed developed refined it down and here we are a few years life to carry you know everything's going well so far for us I think is that people you know one's about these things easy is something different and they just looking for a taste they haven't had before and you just see Brownie interesting or warm gooey goodness it's like. It makes you happy it's all full of goodness that it's definitely not for people on the diets but I guess in these they are a particular. If I said they're totally calorie free I'd be not be the most honest person so. Yeah. It's come it's Christmas we're allowed to indulge a bit away. When you think of the smell of mulled wine for the door you wander through you've got your brain is there as well which look wonderful as I walk past the front I'm going to walk in the right in the way of the demonstration is going on but actually the chocolate and the smell around here fall in fantastic and it's not only produces from further afield like Manchester or here we've also got a couple of other exhibitors from the county and these guys are from I think Church Stretton is that right just yet between stress and recent playschool Dorrington fix now talk us through some of these because these little differences of the brain isn't a metropolis I've seen before yes is a traditional system. It's a sweet pastry then it gets fried it's a critter shell and they're filled with a sweet recorded she says cream cheesy. Some of the dream jobs that you can be sitting there in the morning afternoon you know usually until the end if. You get sick of them all the time working on those fast food restaurants they say yeah you can eat as much as you want you're going to get a little bit sick after a while exactly what made you get into it then that's a bit we started off about 5 years ago importing Italian products cheeses and wine salamis and things like that and then last year actually this time last year and I'm doing this and producing some sweet desserts really. Got a bit of a cue going on social Let me go thank you very much Paul there's so much going on here today if you were in the came to looking for something to do and actually got a bit of a taste for chocolate This is most certainly a place to go there's chocolate lollies are made early which means going try and find those those chocolate brownies you mentioned before and also lots of chocolate fudge so place to come scenarios here in the center of Shrewsbury thank you and it's on till 530 today if you fancy nipping down having a look at what's going on there and they're all things chocolate and Mary's Church ensures great films for our no doubts whatsoever about the main cinema release of this week is one everybody's talking about it Dr Sleep It's a companion piece to one of probably the most famous the most talked about one of the most controversial horror movies in modern times. On b.b.c. 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Had nothing to do with me at all it was my amazing wife which she sat looking after my firstborn next door probably smashing balloon again. She came through c.b.s. In the craft making Association Yeah well a little e-mail just saying we're looking for bakers for a new t.v. Show so she thought this would be great you know this bit of exposure Yeah so she filled the eye knowing that I won't do it because I like being front of house I like being back in house working with the like you just keeping control of stuff right so the idea of you know being on the radio shows Well it's just like I don't want to do that because people can pick fault and I don't like and I think to get into memory she filled in the application cut a long story short. I think it was by a 1000 people went for the same place I then got a phone call from a lady called our sling from water war which was a production company and gentlemen tonight she said it was a shock to star she said no don't worry about it they're just doing an article on you song talking to this lady on the phone you know I will not knowing I haven't got a claim Roy and at the end of it she asked me if I could Skype or and I thought well . Skype is this work I don't know what Skype is so I had to ask I'm not that technically minded in the 2nd one since I was city it's like a video chat and I was like well for paper and she giggled and she and Jane I told you enough and. You know she hasn't and let's say that was the start of it then and somehow I managed to get on selling so because of not being in you comfort zone doing telly media what every be. Was the when you realize what it was an element of I don't want to do this or do you do as you told. If you know my wife you do should tell your brother I'm kind of getting it when we got more involved with their And everyone sort of came together we've sort of met the other bakers John Foster said to me all of us he said What do you if you said you know you're here for yourselves he's here for you know you can industry because he's there for the bacon industry. Resonated with me because my family's been baking since 8 and 63 and before that we just can't find any dates so that was important because we're actually talking about my history my family members and you know I haven't got that voice but also the thousands and thousands of bakers that Dolly doing their trade and it was a brutal trade it killed people within 5 to 10 years it was about Bruce So we did a month of it and all of all the Bakers Harpreet Duncan me and Foster are all got problems because of it because it's so brutal so intense you know back problems or just up stairs problems because you can't get your head right and how many people died and why they would die you know were trapped simply trapped. And that really resonated so after all my panic attacks and stuff Ian on on telly I stood at the top of the hill at Stockwell and I looked down and I thought you know I'm going to do this I'm going to do this for the bakers that can