Poole

And it's not fair for these guys to be treated the way they are.

The museum in Poole in Dorset has been shut down after its volunteers were subjected to intimidation and verbal abuse.

A bloody museum, John.

Commemorating in many ways, because these museums usually do, your colleagues who made the ultimate sacrifice.

That's normally a big focus of the museums that I've been to.

I don't know if I've been to the one in Poole, but staff have been doxing.

This is from the Museums Association.

Verbal harassment, physical intimidation.

No, I'm just kidding.

It was kind of, our hotel was in Poole.

Okay, yeah.

And the tennis tournament was also in Poole.

No, our tennis tournament was in Dorset.

Dorset is the county.

Given you played the team, Dorset was one of the teams you played against.

So it's a county.

I'm really looking forward to this podcast, reaching out toward you guys out there, um, living with WM or have families living with WM.

I live in Poole in the United Kingdom, on the south coast.

And my background is, uh, I was a soldier for 13 years and then a policeman for 21 years.

And then I worked in Iraq and Afghanistan for a further five years, and then I got ill.

Ooh.

Poole, Dorset.

[laughs]

Ooh.

Some chronicles recount how William of Winchester was abducted and later sold for three thousand marks to finance Stephen's army.

In the same vein, a lord in Dorset captured Sir Henry de Clare at Poole, only to be forced into a negotiated settlement when Matilda's forces approached.

These petty feuds were more common than we'd think, local disputes magnified by national chaos.

What you see on the map of castles is merely the tip of the iceberg.

The RNLI exists purely to save lives at sea.

Now, it's not clear that message is cutting through to those targeting the service in Poole, um, in Dorset.

Uh, Lifeboats Museum has announced it will close after its volunteers received repeated abuse following an anti-migrant protest last Sunday.

Um, on the plus side, the British public still have the RNLI's back with the charity, um, reporting a significant donations boost following the targeting of its volunteers by the far right.

And over at the Treehouse, it's Freesome, the music of Free and Bad Company.

Down on the coast at the Lighthouse in Poole, it's Rave On, the ultimate 50s and 60s experience.

at 7.45pm. And there's coastal comedy with Bob Mills, Andy Field, Joe Jacobs and Adrian Coles from 8pm.

City Hall in Salisbury have got Salisbury Rocks, that's the tribute band night.

Head on over to Corsham's Pound Arts for Old Baby Mackerel with some bluegrass music from 7.30. And at the Cheese and Grain in Froome, it's Flight performing.

Over in Poole at the Lighthouse is the Poole Symphonic Proms with the Poole and Parkstone Singers from 7.30. And there's some Balkan music with Oprah Rosa from 8.00. Over at the Salisbury Playhouse, it's the Haunting of Hill House, and at the Arts Centre, it's Steady Habits.

That's alternative country and soul music from 7.30. South Featherton's David Hall have got Martin Simpson performing some folk guitar music from 8, and it's the Folk Festival down in Swanage, and that's at various venues all the way through till Sunday.

Head to the Molum in Swanage, though, for the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra's ensemble with West End to Hollywood music.