The Circle Sessions is Peterborough's newest live music experience and artist showcase, built to spotlight the next wave of talent. Each event delivers a powerful live experience featuring an 8-piece R&B house band, five artists, and a DJ, creating a night filled withgreat music, connection, and non-stop vibes. It's debuting on July 3 at the Met Lounge, and we spoke to singer Ramaen and host Asha - two of those behind the evening. How can creatives get ahead in Peterborough? Is the bid for City of Culture status a strong one? How did the duo meet, and what's their background? Who are the city's creatives we should be looking out for? And how will they know the evening is a success? A great chat with two skilful creatives in our city!The Peterborough #Podcast is hosted in conjunction with The Comms Smith- we're on a mission to share stories about why #Peterborough is a great place to live, work, and play.

Pep Cipriano and Terri Flack are two members of the Peterborough Positive team - responsible for the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) campaign. Representing over 350 businesses and organisations, Peterborough Positive is focused on delivering an ambitious business plan to transform the city centre – improving experiences, standards and adding value for all city users.In this podcast we talk about the upcoming ballot; a great summer music event in the heart of Peterborough; the challenges facing businesses; how entrepreneurs are shaping the city centre; and much more. The Peterborough #Podcast is hosted in conjunction with The Comms Smith - we're on a mission to share stories about why #Peterborough is a great place to live, work, and play.

Zoë McCabe Brennan is the Events and Training Manager at the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce. Based in St Neots, she specialises in organising business networking events, including the CambsB2B exhibition.In our latest podcast we spoke about how she started at the Chamber; her role as Events and Training Manager; help for businesses; AI; a busy year ahead in Peterborough and much more. A great chat at Allia Business Centre!The Peterborough #Podcast is hosted in conjunction with The Comms Smith- we're on a mission to share stories about why #Peterborough is a great place to live, work, and play.

Dr Scott Steele is a lecturer in Law in the Faculty of Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship based at ARU Peterborough. As Employability Lead for ARUP, an accredited mediator and an award‑nominated educator, Scott builds bridges between academia, industry and policy to create learning that matters now and for the future.We spoke for 30 minutes on his road to the university; innovative ways of exploring law with young people; civil justice and disability; and the challenges ahead from AI.This podcast is hosted in collaboration with The Comms Smith (Pauline Smith) - we're sharing stories about why Peterborough is a great place to live, work and play: https://www.commssmith.com/We're always looking for interesting guests to tell their Peterborough story - email us at peterboroughpodcast@gmail.com

Jamie Jones is Vice Principal (Operations & Infrastructure) at ARU Peterborough and Chair of the Peterborough United Foundation.

In the second part of our chat at the University, we look at student numbers, the journey ahead, and Jamie's role in the Posh Foundation.

We're always looking for interesting guests to tell their Peterborough story - email us at peterboroughpodcast@gmail.com

Jamie Jones is Vice Principal (Operations & Infrastructure) at ARU Peterborough and Chair of the Peterborough United Foundation.In the first part of our chat at the University, we cover its rapid four year growth and future plans; how students are supported and the challenges facing them; and working with employers.We're always looking for interesting guests to tell their Peterborough story - email us at peterboroughpodcast@gmail.com

Jackson van Uden is an award winning historian and political theorist who specialises in dictators and power and is a History PhD Candidate at Royal Holloway, University of London. He lives in Longthorpe in Peterborough and is a director of the Katharine of Aragon Festival.In this podcast he talks about how Henry VIII's wives are gaining prominence; the magic of Peterborough Cathedral; and the current political scene locally, nationally and internationally.Jackson's channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/historywithjackson

We're always looking for interesting guests to tell their Peterborough story - email us at peterboroughpodcast@gmail.com

Louise Thirlwall is Head of Place & Partnerships at Peterborough Cultural Alliance, which helps creative culture grow by investing in people and places – working to enable diverse voices to be heard and supporting everyone to have the chance to take part in meaningful arts and heritage opportunities.

In this podcast we examine Peterborough's 2029 City of Culture bid; look at the success of challenges in promoting culture in the city; chat about what makes it a special city; and find out what inspires Louise.

Find out more about the Alliance here: https://peterboroughculturalstrategy.org.uk

And Peterborough Tourism Group here: ⁠https://discoverpeterborough.co.uk/⁠We're always looking for interesting guests to tell their Peterborough story - email us at peterboroughpodcast@gmail.com