BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester came along to the reunion and interviewed Rachel and some of the original cast and here’s an excerpt – Do find out more on the BBC website and follow up their story on their Facebook page 

We had a brilliant time this week, meeting some of the stars of the 1959 Whitbourne Village School production of ‘The Man in the Moone’, adapted from Bishop Godwin’s book of the same name. The production went through to the final of an inter-school competition and the children went to London to perform it at…

Did you attend Whitbourne Village school in 1959 and do you remember the highly praised school play of that year? Based on the locally written story ‘The Man in the Moone’ it won the county competition and the opportunity to perform in London. We would like to hear about the play and the events surrounding…

Come and meet together to reminisce about old times, the trip to London and the play. There will be cake and coffee – and TEA as well!

We were fortunate enough to pay a visit to our Local & Family History centre in Bromyard on Friday and Kate Lack gave us a great introduction to the wonderful resource that the Centre is. If you have the time, do arrange a visit – you could spend HOURS here! http://bromyardhistorysociety.org.uk/ Dave Provis

  Whitbourne to Celebrate Early Science Fiction Pioneer with Community Performance 10th October By Robert Hale An illustration from the ancient book. A VILLAGE near Bromyard is putting on a heritage project to commemorate one of the earliest works of science fiction published in English.   The Man in the Moone was published in 1638…

    The Tempest – William Shakespeare  (1610) …. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,…

Francis Godwin – The Literary Context Contemporary writers: Francis Godwin 1562 – 1633 Sir Philip Sidney 1554 — 1586 William Shakespeare 1564 — 1616 Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637 Christopher Marlowe 1564 – 1593 John Donne 1572 – 1631 Edmund Spenser 1553 – 1599 Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626 Miguel de Cervantes 1547 — 1616…

The book group has now met five times and is proving fascinating. “It was a great first meeting – the historical Whitbourne information really started to root Godwin in time and place, and people are engaged with the concept. I’m really excited by it, and have been having lots of ideas. Where did he get…