Radio Clatterbridge

Radio Clatterbridge

Radio Clatterbridge is one of North West England's oldest Hospital Radio stations. Broadcasting since 1951, the station is free and available twenty-four hours a day to patients and staff at Clatterbridge Hospital, near Bebington, Wirral. It is staffed by a team of about forty volunteers who donate their time to help the charity.

Radio Clatterbridge began its life as a group of boys from a local youth group. They set about visiting patients at Clatterbridge General Hospital and playing them songs from a portable record player. So popular was this idea that it soon became possible to buy permanent gramophones and "broadcast" the songs back to the patients, via a simple land-line system.

By the early 1960s, the new radio station was broadcasting a number of programmes every week. One of those, "Sunday Spin", became a milestone in musical history. The presenter, Monty Lister, recorded the first broadcast interview with a new up-and-coming band, The Beatles.

As technology advanced, Radio Clatterbridge moved into Larch House during the 1970s. The station remained in these studios for nearly two decades. Digital technology was first introduced during the late 1980s, as the station (now equipped with two studios) took delivery of its first compact disc player. In 1993, Radio Clatterbridge moved to a temporary home near to St John's Hospice. The temporary move lasted for nearly a decade. Radio Clatterbridge made its permanent move into the old boiler house, renamed Larch House, over the winter of 2000/2001. The station's new home had to be developed from scratch. Successful applications for a number of grants enabled Radio Clatterbridge to fit a new studio for the new millennium. In 2003, new computer equipment enabled the station to do something it had never been able to do before: Radio Clatterbridge now provides a 24-hour service for the hospital site.

External links

* [http://www.radioclatterbridge.co.uk Radio Clatterbridge website]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Clatterbridge — Coordinates: 53°20′N 3°02′W / 53.33°N 3.03°W / 53.33; 3.03 …   Wikipedia

  • Port Sunlight — infobox UK place country= England official name= Port Sunlight latitude= 53.35542 longitude= 2.99459 population= 1,450 (2001 Census)citeweb|url=http://www.wirral.gov.uk/factsandfigures/census2001/oneward2recset.asp?ref=TS31|title=Wirral 2001… …   Wikipedia

  • Port Sunlight — 53° 21′ 18″ N 2° 59′ 38″ W / 53.355, 2.994 Port Sunlight est un village …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Ultralase — Infobox Company company name = Ultralase company company type = Limited company, registered in England and Wales location = Leeds,UK foundation = 1991 key people = Tony Veverka, CEO Jonathan Simpson, CFO Mark Korolkiewicz, Clinical Services… …   Wikipedia

  • Birkenhead — For other uses, see Birkenhead (disambiguation). Coordinates: 53°23′35″N 3°00′50″W / 53.393°N 3.014°W / 53.393; 3.014 …   Wikipedia

  • List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom, 1992 — This is a complete list of all 1922 Statutory Instruments published in the United Kingdom in the year 1992. NOTOC 1 100* North Hull Housing Action Trust (Transfer of Property) Order 1992 S.I. 1992/1 * Merchant Shipping (Radio Installations)… …   Wikipedia

  • William Herbert Wallace — (29 August 1878 ndash; 26 February 1933) was convicted in 1931 of the murder of his wife Julia in their home in Wolverton Street in Liverpool s Anfield district. His conviction was later overturned by the Court Of Criminal Appeal, the first… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”