Surrey Day - Saturday 11 May 2024

A celebration of all that is great about the county, Surrey Day is set to return for a sixth year to bring the area’s towns, villages and attractions together in recognition of this fantastic location on.

Surrey Day is a huge, inclusive initiative to which everyone is invited!

 

Events

High-flying new theme for 2024
Surrey From The Sky

The countdown is on to Surrey Day 2024. The annual celebration of life in Surrey will take place on Saturday 11 May and is organised by BBC Radio Surrey, Visit Surrey and the Surrey Lieutenancy.

This year’s celebration takes the theme ‘Surrey from the Sky’, encompassing everything from some of Surrey’s wonderful vantage points, through to aviation and aviaries!

Surrey Day’s 2024 Ambassador is the veteran actor Brian Blessed, who has enjoyed an incredible career spanning six decades. The Flash Gordon star, 87, lives in Lightwater, and is an honorary patron of the Guildford Shakespeare Company. The GSC are celebrating their eighteenth birthday and BBC Radio Surrey will be telling the story of how the theatre group has grown, in a special week-long series. Brian follows in the footsteps of previous Ambassadors including Dame Penelope Keith, Sir Brian May, and Eamonn Holmes. 

As usual, BBC Radio Surrey will have a special day of programmes, kicking off from 6am with Peter Gordon for a Surrey Day Breakfast Show. At 10am, Sara Thornton will host a show from Birdworld in Farnham, one of the largest bird parks in the country. At 1pm, James Cannon will go behind the scenes of Fairoaks Airport in Chobham. Then from 4pm, Surrey Day co-founder and Deputy Lieutenant Mark Carter will be at Brooklands Museum, which is home to an incredible collection of aviation memorabilia, not least one of the actual Concordes.

In the evening, BBC Radio Surrey will broadcast a special show (7-8pm) hosted by Emily Jeffery and the chair of Visit Surrey and Deputy Lieutenant Christine Howard, recorded at a host of locations including Kenley Airfield, exploring the county’s many links with aviation. The podcast also includes artists, bugs, bees, birds, bats, helicopters, gliders, air cadets, satellites and space exploration - and if you don’t manage to catch it on 11 May, you can listen again on BBC Sounds.

The day of broadcasting will conclude with a celebration of new and unsigned music acts from Surrey in a BBC Introducing special from 8-10pm.

There will also be special prizes to be won for a host of Surrey tourist destinations on both BBC Radio Surrey and our social media platforms, so be sure to follow the Surrey Day accounts on Facebook, X and Instagram. Use the hashtag #SurreyDay and be part of our huge celebration of Surrey. 

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