Episode 2

BEHIND THE SCENES at the DOE SHOW with Graham Parker

The annual Doe Show staged by the multi-branch dealership Ernest Doe Ltd has been held every year since 1960.

The 2020 show, always held during the first week of February, was staged a few weeks before the Government announced a complete lockdown due to the spreading pandemic.

Determined to keep the show on the road, Doe sales director Graham Parker and his team started to make plans for the 2021 show - whatever the ever-changing restrictions.

Graham describes how they put together a very different event in 2021, and still had to juggle Plan A, Plan B, Plan C for the February 2022 show as a second wave of Covid arrived, making a last-minute decision on the show format inevitable.

Graham describes changing plans, sleepless nights, new technology and visitor feedback

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Chris Biddle

Podcast host Chris Biddle has over 50 years industry experience having worked for a major tractor manufacturer, run a multi-branch dealership, launched two trade magazines (Service Dealer and Turf Pro), was Editor of Landwards (the professional journal of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers IAgrE) from 2012 to 2019, has spoken at many industry conferences and written countless features and articles for specialist publications.
He received an industry Lifetime Achievement in 2012 and an Award for Contribution to the Landbased Sector in 2020.
He is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Agricultural Engineers and a member of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists.
Chris lives in Salisbury, Wiltshire with his wife Trish, and has three children and four grand-children