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The Sound of Sunday Summer Show will be returning for a 2024 series this summer, broadcasting from a variety of local events around Basingstoke.

The show, which replaces the usual live Sunday afternoon show, has already recorded the 3 shows,  at the annual Basingstoke Transport Festival, the Old Basing Carnival and the Alton Lions Safari in the Park.

The show will also promote other things going on in Basingstoke over the summer.  The regular word game Word Whizz will also feature in the show which will air for 90 minutes from Sunday 11 August.

A special edition of The Sound of Sunday on Hospital Radio Basingstoke will once again guide listeners through the final day of the Premier League season.

Starting at 3.30pm on Sunday 19 May, the show will feature reports from all 10 final games which all kick off at 4pm.  It looks like there will be issues to settle at both the top and bottom of the table so it could be an exciting afternoon.

The Sound of Sunday Last Day of the Premier League, Sunday 19 May 3.30pm on Hospital Radio Basingstoke

The Sound of Sunday was up for an award on 13 April at the National Hospital Radio Awards.  The promo that was produced for the Random Vinyl feature was shortlisted in the Best Station Promotion award.

The feature, which asks someone at random to choose a random number from HRB’s vinyl library, started in 2019, although took an extended break during the pandemic due to the fact that we didn’t have a record player in our remote studio.

The promo may not have won an award, but lots more people were recorded choosing their random vinyl , including Voice of the Balls Alan Dedicoat, and these will be heard in the coming months.

The promo produced to promote the Random Vinyl feature on The Sound of Sunday has been nominated for an award.

Random Vinyl asks a different person each week to select a number at random from HRB’s vinyl library and then that track is played – whatever it might be.  Hospital staff and volunteers from other hospital radio stations have chosen numbers as well as people met during HRB’s various outside broadcasts.

The 1 minute long promo is shortlisted for the Best Station Promotion award at the National Hospital Radio Awards and is one of 4 nominations for HRB.  The winners will be announced on Saturday 13 April.

HRB is launching 3 new shows as part of an updated daytime schedule.  The 5 – 6pm show will become known as Tea Time in Basingstoke, airing Monday – Wednesday at 5 with Neil Ogden.

There will be features and local news and information during one of three shows that will look tomake the station more reflectve of what’s going on locally during the day.

Good Morning Basingstoke and the Lunch Break are the other two shows that will go out at 8am and 12pm respectively.

Once again we have been responsible for delivering HRB’s Most Requested Artists Countdown.

This year the show was presented live after 3 years of being a recorded programme.

The chart was compiled from requests played on HRB in 2023, with data up to the first weekend in December being used.  The show included a compatition to gues the number one and as well as a goody bag from Morrisons in Basingstoke, the winner, a patient caled Sylvia got to announce the number one.  This was recorded during the final hour of the show.

Nmber one once again was Elvis Presley.

Tadley held its annual Christmas lights switch-on with music and the Anvil panto cast taking part.  The event was held on Friday 24 November 2023 and the video is now available below.

The video of the Abseil into Christmas event at Basingstoke and North Hants Hospital is now available.

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