Radio Features

The 'Summer of Art' brings together 14 art trails from across the county. The online team here at BBC Essex are very excited about the project and would like you to join in with their trail, with your pictures of our lovely county.

To set a high standard, BBC Essex listener Jez from Little Baddow has sent in a beautiful shot of a hidden corner of our county. Have you seen Ulting church before?

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Planet Ray's voice of the travel, David Reece

That's the business news - and now the travel

There was a time when you turned on the radio and just imagined what the person who belonged to the voice looked like. It's different nowadays with webcams active all the time. But, until now, two regular members of our team have remained faceless!

Thousands of Planet Ray listeners are helped on their way to work each day by our voice of the travel David Reece.

Karen studies the stocks and shares

And if it's business news you need then Karen Hoggan is our finance expert, and in this strange world of radio, although we speak daily, I'd never met either of them until recently.

And now here's your chance to meet them.

The train's due soon

Ray Clark Breakfast Show listener, Ed, tipped us the wink that Oliver Cromwell would be speeding through the county on Thursday morning. Old Ollie is a preserved railway locomotive and it was hauling a train to Norwich on its way from Liverpool Street.

Oliver Cromwell visited Essex on St George's Day

Ever keen to see an unusual spectacle I enlisted volunteers to witness the train passing over the viaduct in Chelmsford's Central Park.

BBC Essex sports man Ben Fryer and I met up with a growing number of Planet Ray listeners at strategic points along the railway line to witness this rare sight.

Still walking the plank!

It was two weeks ago that Pirate BBC Essex sailed off into the sunset, but I'm still getting e-mails about those Pirate days.

Gordon's take on Pirate BBC Essex

The ship-borne broadcasts prompted Ray Clark Breakfast Show listener Gordon (we only know his firstname - that's all) to offer another of his occasional, but brilliant, cartoons.

The story 'wot' you write

A lovely story this week from Jean in Ramsey, near Harwich - and a twist in the tale... or should that be tail?