We’re planning to launch the audio walk with a big community event on Friday 29 July 2005, People are going to dress up in period costumes, and some of us will do a little re-enactment of the riot. The local policeman is going to read the Riot Act. There’s a group from The Laurels, which is a centre for adults with learning difficulties, and they’ll be dressed up and handing out flyers. And we’re going to have food of the time, which is probably bread and peas - not a lot else because at the time the people were almost starving, that’s why they were protesting in the first place!

There is talk of producing a community play, but that would be another separate project. The head of drama at local school has already put on two community plays and he will direct one for us. We’ve been so lucky - we didn’t realise when we started that there we already had so many useful and relevant skills in our community.

We’re producing a printed guide and a story booklet ourselves, and one of the lasting effects will be a discount scheme that we’re introducing, so that when people go on this walk, they will get a discount in the cafes or the bookshop or the pubs, which will benefit local businesses.

We had been wondering about creating a website, so it’s been really useful to have our own section on the LHI’s website to start us off on that particular learning curve.

We have been joined by two community groups. A music workshop has been set up by Somerset County Council Adult Learning and Leisure, where six unemployed adults are composing the intro’s and outro’s to each scene. They will also be performing at the launch event.

Adults with learning difficulties from the Laurel Centre in Chard are making a mosaic of the crowd gathering outside the Guildhall, and this will be displayed in the Chard Healthy Living Centre.