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Registered Charity No 1068428
Recent Events
Radio Halton didn't miss out and was represented by Margaret Longworth who found advice on how to make charities run more effectively She was pleased to meet with the Mayor and Mayoress of Halton, Councillor Frank Fraser and Mrs Irene Fraser, and she told them how we provide music to help patients and staff get through the day
Recent interviews Margaret Longworth chatted to Stan Martin, Chairman of the Highfield Male Voice Choir and shared their interest of choral music in October 09 Jim Wood chatted to Peter Bentham from The Brindley in Runcorn on his Wednesday show in October 09 Donations news - moved to the About Us page
Book competition winners Bookworms are taking part in Margaret Longworth's book competition on Tuesday mornings. Margaret gave away some of the books she's reviewed on her 10 till 12 noon show
From Mallard Independent Publishing:
Volunteers Week
Here's Margaret, Derry and Pam in the dining Room watching everyone else eat to the music. Find out more about Volunteers Week here
Thank you, whoever you are
Thank you to the anonymous person who donated all the 5-CD box sets of 100 songs on each set - thank you, whoever you are! New
starters Katie Nolan and Laura Gladman - started training in October 09 and have almost completed training Logo design Credit is due to designer Jason Hill for our musical logo at the top of the pages. It links in with the NHS logo which is blue, and being a bass clef, also harmonises (sorry!) with our sister station Radio General in Warrington who have a blue and white treble clef Do you know someone in hospital? You can find the station that serves their hospital and request a song or send them a message. Just click on the logo below to go to the site of the organisation for hospital radio in the whole of the UK
What kind of music do people ask to hear? Well, here's our most popular music: Top 30 most requested songs Sept to Dec 2009
National Hospital Request Chart Mark Snowdon of Radio General in Warrington put together a national chart from hospitals all over the UK. See 2008's Top 40 as well as past years' charts at http://www.requestcharts.org.uk
News on the benefits of
music in hospital Legendary folk musician Dave Swarbrick says, "Hospital radio is a fantastic service with volunteers giving their time free to entertain patients with music. When I have been in hospital, which is quite considerable, I have been very glad of it. As a musician you don't tend to realise the therapeutic effect it can have until you are receiving it yourself. Without having music and great friends around me in hospital I would have been climbing the walls. Keep up the good work."
Scientists have found that happy music causes the lining of blood vessels to expand, increasing the amount of blood flow And the benefits of joyful music are even greater than that of laughter, according to the researchers from the University of Maryland They say the effect could be
down to the release of endorphins, which are released by the brain to induce the
feeling of well-being Study leader Dr Michael Miller said: "We had previously demonstrated that positive emotions, such as laughter, were good for vascular health." The type of music did not matter, as long as it made the listener 'feel good'. Source: Daily Mail - By Daniel Martin 12 November 2008 Competition winners for shows at The Brindley 2 tickets
for Karine Polwart's
Liz Davies won 2 tickets for Carthy and Swarbrick in September 09 - see Jim Wood's review Janet
Sandiford from the ECG Department was the
lucky winner of 2 tickets to see soul legend Geno
Washington
Jingles
Jim Wood showed him round our studio in June 2008 Karl's also made our appeal for more volunteers called "change the world" which we have put on this page for you to hear - just click on the link above - then click your back button on your browser to return here
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Patients on
the wards can use the Radio Halton freephone to request a mention or a song to
help the time pass more easily. Then, settle back into bed or an easy
chair and relax to favourite music through ...
...the
bedside headset - it's
all technology from more than 40 years ago - no wires involved here, just a pipe into the
console on the wall with a volume knob and a channel knob - so it is literally
piped music! 
"A
study has shown listening to your favourite music can improve the health of your
heart
Brindley concert
on Thursday 26 November 09 were won by Jayne Moseley
from Physiotherapy
in June 09.
She correctly answered our question: Who had
a number 1 hit in 1980 with a tribute song "Geno"? and it was Dexy's
Midnight Runners
We
had a flying visit from Canada's Karl King who has produced many of our jingles
out of the goodness of his heart for no charge
29 January 2010