In this issue

ESCAPING THE CHATEAU
Dick and Angel Strawbridge heading to East Anglia.

100 YEARS
Celebrating a century of council houses.

OUR GREAT GRANDKIDS!
Why being a grandparent is so good for you..

She's our Christmas Robyn

As Robyn, she’s the heart of the accident and emergency department at Holby City Hospital. Now Amanda Henderson is swapping Casualty for the Norwich Theatre Royal panto. She speaks to Angi Kennedy.

4 mins

Making the dream come true

Dick and Angel Strawbridge, stars of Channel Four’s hit TV series, Escape to the Chateau, are heading to Ipswich as part of their Dare To Do It theatre tour early next year. The retired Army Lieutenant Colonel and his designer wife tell us that they hope audiences will be inspired by their story of bringing an abandoned French castle back to life.

5 mins

Thinking caps on for our giant Christmas quiz

It may be Christmas but there’s still no excuse not to use the brain cells. See how many of these 100 questions you can answer after the turkey, roast potatoes, Chirstmas pudding and brandy butter.

10 mins

Council housing changed the lives of many people and for the better

From dark, damp, stinking and overcrowded courts and yards and tumbledown cottages to some of the best council homes in the country. Derek James looks back on a century of council housing in Norfolk and Suffolk.

3 mins

A circus steeped in history but with a great future

What puts the Great in Yarmouth? Derek James thinks it’s a unique building called the Hippodrome, the only one of its kind in the whole country

2 mins

The day we played football with Bee Gees

A lifetime in music has certainly given Brian Russell some memorable moments, explains David Clayton.

4 mins

All Aboard The Middy For A Steaming Good Christmas

The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway is a busy place this festive season. Rachel Banham looks at what’s on at the line affectionately known as the ‘Middy’.

2 mins

Time for a quick change!

It’s the time of the year when you may have an invitation or two for the Christmas and New Year festivities. You may have got your party dress, but what about your hair? Let’s Talk’s fashion editor Corinne Tuddenham-Finn takes a look at wigs to see how to get that special new style sorted.

3 mins

Not just for Christmas

Why your festive decorations might be worth more than you think

2 mins

The mad moonlight on a magical trip to Brazil

Our nature writer Barry Madden treats us to his magical memories of an extraordinary wildlife trip to Brazil.

3 mins

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Nostalgia, gardening, advice, travel, puzzles and celebrity interviews all make a monthly appearance in East Anglia's best-loved magazine.“Let's Talk is a lifestyle magazine covering East Anglia, from North Essex to the “bump” that ...