How it all began

A short time ago, our local newspaper - The Portobello Reporter - announced plans to close which, thankfully, didn't come to pass. However, at the time it seemed all too probable. So retired BBC Broadcast Journalist, David Calder, saw a possible opportunity to move to a new technology and decided to create The Porty Podcast.

This coincided with a lot of local activity. In particular, the community had the opportunity to buy the redundant Portobello Old Parish Church at Bellfield and public meetings were being held to find out just how much enthusiasm there was for such a major decision.

Portobello Old Parish Church

There turned out to be a great deal of interest and enthusiasm. So David took his trusty recorder along to one of those meetings and asked to interview assorted people from Action Porty, the steering group which was leading the campaign. He took them home and produced a 10 minute feature. But then, what should be done with it?

He chose Buzzsprout as the host, partly because it offered the safety net of the first three months free! This was important in case the idea didn't work. However, it did and The Porty Podcast was born.