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Chesney's Back for Christmas

  90s singer Chesney Hawkes has recorded a Christmas show for hospital radio stations to use over the festive season. It's the second show he has recorded and follows the success of the first...

HBA Members attend the Radio Academy Festival

Thanks to the Radio Academy, HBA was delighted to offer a handful of volunteers from HBA Member Stations the opportunity to attend the Radio Academy Festival in November. Volunteers from HBA Member...

Staying Calm & Carrying On

The team at Hospital Radio Ipswich have continued to provide programmes to patients and staff of The Ipswich Hospital. While the second wave of Coronavirus has presented further challenges to the...

Radio Horton extends service

North Oxfordshire’s hospital, health and wellbeing radio station, Radio Horton has expanded its broadcasting output to support residents at the Katharine House Hospice in Adderbury. Earlier this year...

Hospital Radio Plymouth Brings Community Together

Volunteers at Hospital Radio Plymouth (HRP) are keeping friends and families in contact while they cannot meet face to face.   Hospital Radio Plymouth has continued broadcasting throughout the...

National Hospital Radio Awards Winners 2020

*/ Congratulations to the winners of the National Hospital Radio Awards 2020. The National Hospital Radio Awards is an annual celebration of the excellent year-on-year standards found in hospital...

Radio Glamorgan Returns

Over the last five months, Radio Glamorgan (RG) volunteers have been mostly recording shows from home, doing their best to keep patients and staff entertained during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Lots of...

New soundtrack to MRI scans at Bedford Hospital

Anyone who has had an MRi scan will know that they are a very noisy affair, to say the least.  And sometimes patients can find the sound of the scanner quite disconcerting and upsetting. In a...

Brockley News Brings the Frontline to the Airwaves

London's longest running hospital radio station has not stopped broadcasting and has remained on-air throughout the Coronavirus pandemic.  As we have all experienced, the pandemic has made us change...

BHBN launches new radio drama

In March 2020, with the universal closure of theatres throughout the UK, the theatre company, Natura Contemporary Theatre, responded by asking themselves what could they do to help others during...