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Rob starts the day with a mixture of music and chat.

Rob Dunger: Biblical Floods, Christian Jews, Rugby Sevens, and a boost for the Town Pastors. 

Biblical Floods, Christian Jews, Rugby Sevens, and a boost for the Town Pastors. 

BBC Radio Suffolk - Rob Dunger, Biblical Floods, Christian Jews, Rugby Sevens, and a boost for the Town Pastors.

Revd Roni Mechanic shares his story of conversion, and his passion for travel.

Rob speaks to Suffolk's newest cannon, as the Rev Dr Ian McIntosh is installed as an Honorary Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral by the Bishop.


Taking to his Pop Pulpit is the Revd Andrew Dotchin, vicar of Whitton, taking a closer look at Kylie Minogue's Finer Feelings.


Revd Roni Mechanic is Rob's studio guest.

He's currently in Barton Mills, but shares tales of working in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and also in the Choleston Desert among the Marwari Bheel dalit community. 

Born to a British Jewish family, he moved to South Africa as a child, becoming a Christian in his 20s whilst at design college.


Rob hears the story of bequest for the Bury St Edmunds Town pastors. 

Southgate Church in Bury St Edmunds has made a gift of £7000 to the work of the Bury Town Pastors from a legacy received from the late Brenda Mann who died last year aged 92.

A regular worshipper at Southgate Church for many years, Brenda was originally from London, joining the Suffolk police and working in Lowestoft, Felixstowe and Bury St Edmunds.  

She was her constabulary's first woman sergeant, working with young people and police cadets, and becoming head of the police women's department.  

In 1993, she was awarded the MBE for services to police welfare.  She left the Church a substantial legacy from which this gift to Bury Town Pastors is being made.



England rugby union winger David Strettle is to be special guest at this year's annual ULR Rugby Sevens Tournament in Suffolk.

Crowds of up to 3000 will see sixteen of the top national and international sevens rugby teams compete at the Haberden, home of Bury St Edmunds Rugby Club.

To add to the bank holiday weather, Rob looks back to the tale of Noah's Ark, and the Ipswich Buddhist centre explain why they'll be causing peace in the town centre.

Plus the BBC's School report team from Westley Middle School in Bury St Edmunds have been the auditions for the Queen's Jubilee children's choir.

The regional heats were at St Edmundsbury Cathedral yesterday, 40 youngsters will eventually perform for the Queen at St Paul's.

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