The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show was able to return to its normal format for the first time since 2019.

The show is a stand alone annual edition of The Sound of Sunday running for over 5 hours with special guests, requests, competitions and the Great Christmas Cracker Dash which was back live around the wards.

The show was broadcast on HRB om Sunday 10 December from 12 – 5.30pm.  Julie Jones from the hospital staff panto talked about this year’s staff panto production at the Haymarket theatre, Christine from the Chaplaincy team at the hospital talked about their Christmas events around the hospital.

Richard Smith talked about The A to Z of Pop Live which was a part of HRB’s Christmas schedule.

Singer Alexander O’Neal and Alan Fletcher (Karl Kennedy in Neighbours) were special guests.

There was a prize draw for patients with the iner chosn by Vernon Pearce live from Spain and Nick from Hospital Radio Reading chose the winner of he panto ticket staff competition during a live link up.

There was also a link up with Steve Pexton from Harrogate Hospital Radio.

There was plenty of crackers pulled and instant requests from around the wards.

The show is always one of the most complicated shows of the year to produce with live link ups from various different sources and locations.  It took 3 months of planning, but followed the format of the shows of 2019 and before.

Memory Makers will be making another stand alone appearance this November with a special show to mark 60 years of Doctor Who.

The show will play the biggest selling single during each era of the show as well as facts and information about the programme.

The programme can be heard on HRB on Wednesday 22 November at 6.30pm and will be a compilation of the same feature that wil have been on The Sound of Sunday for the previous few weeks.

Memory Makers The Doctor Who Years, 22 November 6.30pm

Neil Ogden’s Sound of Sunday will return for its 33rd series on Hospital Radio Basingstoke on 10 September at 1.30pm.

The show has become a regular part of Sunday afternoons on Hospital Radio Basingstoke and has regularly attracted the largest online audience of the weekend to the station which also broadcasts around the wards at Basingstoke and North Hants Hospital and, since the end of March, can be heard on DAB+ radios around Basingstoke.

All the regular features will return as part of the new run including Huntsford, the soap produced by Huntingdon Community Radio.  There will also be a new competition, Spot the Ball, and part of the show will also be Residents’ Requests playing requests for the residents of local care homes and sheltered living.

Twice a month we will take Residents’ Requests out to the residents so that they can make their requests in person at Cherry Blossom Manor in Bramley and Bishopswood Court in Tadley.

Memory Makers will be back playing the songs that were hits at the time of different anniversaries, starting the series with the Rugvy World Cup and then 60 Years of Doctor Who.

And finally the Big Christmas Show will once again launch the HRB Christmas schedule with hopefully the return of the Great Christmas Cracker Dash around the wards.

Neil Ogden’s Sound of Sunday, Hospital Radio Basingstoke every Sunday at 1.30pm www.hrbasingstoke.co.uk

Hospital Radio Basingstoke recently broadcast a day of special shows to mark NHS75 and 3 months of successful broadcasting on DAB around Basingstoke.  We produced the video of the special day on Wednesday 5 July 2023.

Parade the Giant Wheel was an outdoor performance staged by Autin Dance Theatre at the Basingstoke Festival.

It combined acrobatics and dance with a giant wooden wheel which went from London Street to Cross Street during the show which lasted nearly an hour.

Using more or less one continuous camera shot, the video was filmed of the entire event.

Studio 63 Media was asked to film the opening of the new skatepark in Tadley.

The new skate park was opened at an event attended by the Mayor of Basingtoke Councilor David Leech on Saturday 3 June 2023.  The ribbon was cut by Ben Sleet, WCMX World Champion.

The video can be seen below.

The Sound of Sunday’s summertime spin off wil return for a new series in August 2023.

The show has been renewed for 3 new editions to feature events going on around Basingstoke and around the area this summer.

It will be the 4th series of the revived show which began back in the 1990s. The show is recorded at various events around Basingstoke during July and August.  Confirmed for this year, one of the three shows wil come from the Alton Village Fete which is being held in JUly.

The Sound of Sunday Summer Show, starts 13 August on HRB

Residents’ Requests, the popular show on Hospital Radio Basingstoke that sees residents of local care homes choose their favourite music has been taking a new direction in recent months with the residents themselves appearing on the show to choose the music and talk.

Presenter Neil Ogden has been visiting residents of Cherry Blossom Manor in Bramley and Bishopswood Court in Tadley in person to record them talking and introducing their favourite songs.  Neil has also been to Magnolia Court in Popley in Basingstoke and recorded a special Coronation edition.

It seems to be a more successful way of producing the show with a more enthusiastic response from those taking part, who all listen in to hear themselves when the show gets broadcast.

Studio 63 Media has produced a special programme for Coronation weekend.

Following on from the 2022 Jubilee special. Memory Makers the King’s Anniversary Years plays an hour of music that was relevant to King Charles at the significant times in his life, so the songs that were popular at the time he was born, became Heir, was invested at Prince of Wales etc.  His life in music essentially with a narrative in between the songs.

The programme has been scheduled on Hospital Radio Basingstoke on Friday 5 May and can also be heard on internet station Reach On Air on Thursday 4 May.

Memory Makers has been a regular weekly feature on The Sound of Sunday on Hospital Radio Basingstoke for several years, and this is the third edition that has been developed as a show in its own right.

The return date of Studio 63’s flagship show The Sound of Sunday has been confirmed as Sunday 11 September 2022.

The show will return to Hospital Radio Basingstoke every week until next July with the usual two and a half hours of features and interaction with award winning presenter Neil Ogden.

There will be competitions for listeners to rakepart in to win the Sound of Sunday pen plus features including Soap Update, Same Title Different Song and Memory Makers.  Plus the return of Sunday afternoon soap Huntsford.

The show will continue to be presented remotely from Studio 63’s studio.

Neil Ogden’s Sound of Sunday, Sundays at 1.30 on Hospital Radio Basingstoke from 11 September.