About Gloucestershire

In this six part series, we aim to bring you closer to those in our county with the more unusual or strange jobs and then let you hear how they go about earning a living.

In this part, BBC Gloucestershire's Dave Harries welcomes in the new football season with someone involved in the beautiful game.

Eddie Leather works at Cirencester Town Football Club and gets closer to the players than even the management!

"My official title is Cleaning Operative, but I'm in charge of all the kits".

Hear how Eddie got involved with the club and found himself in this full-time position by clicking on the link below:

Making a crust in a rock band

This time round our series on people in the county with unusual jobs has taken Dave Harries to new heights!

Heights in which Dave has to pretend to be young and trendy (again) as he meets up with four young lads from Tetbury who are trying to earn a crust from playing in a band. 

One member of the band even adds:

"I work as an administrator for a company, working in pensions, so it's not the most rock and roll job."

In the fourth part of the series, BBC Gloucestershire's Dave Harries meets a man who lives in the middle of beautiful Cotswold countryside but makes his living by trading foreign currencies on the worlds money markets, all from the comfort of his own home.

"With the development of the internet, there are now online trading systems so basically anybody can sit at home - as long as you've got a PC and some knowledge of the financial markets - you can actually now trade foreign exchange, all day long, from your home at your desk".

Here we find out the definition of "Cute". It turns out it's all to do with furry animals on greetings cards.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Dave Harries meets an artist from Cirencester who paints these images for a living.

"What this is all about is getting across emotion.

"When you're developing a character you're trying to put a bit of a story to it - where does this character live, does he live in the countryside, is he living in a house, does he live in a box, does he live in a pocket".

BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Dave Harries has been trying to find out what it takes to be your own boss, in charge of your very own multi million pound business.

Our series on people in the county with unusual jobs has taken him to Cirencester, to meet a self made businessman and entrepreneur who started, and now runs, a very successful Gloucestershire company:

In the first part of the series, Dave Harries knocks on the Cheltenham door of Tom Kane, a man who describes his job as the following:

"It's not glamorous! We're not meeting film stars, we're not TV directors or anything, we're simply writing music day by day which gets used by television companies when they need stuff."

Tom's a music composer. Listen to the full interview by clicking on the link below: