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Programme change Katie Nolan has moved to Friday mornings from 11 till 1 from July 2010 Memories set off by music Hazel Maguire from Croft, near Warrington, was sitting in Outpatients one day when she heard a song which took her back to 1965. The song was "Queen of the House" by Jody Miller, who was Roger Miller's wife, the song being an answer to his hit "King of the Road". Hazel phoned us and asked if we knew where to get a copy, but it wasn't in our collection of CDs
Recent Events
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and for the £23.88 donated into the collection box held by Derry
Find out more about volunteering at
the
Volunteers Week website
Derry, Roger, Margaret and John are pictured at our information stall for Volunteers Week on 3 June 2010
When do Radio Halton broadcast?
** We're constantly making more songs available on the playlist so that the same songs don't come round too often**
Donations news - moved to the About Us page New starters
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 20 most requested songs April to June 2010 - new chart
National Hospital Request Chart Mark Snowdon of Radio General in Warrington put together a national chart from hospitals all over the UK. See 2009'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
Marjorie listening in Clinic A won 2 tickets for
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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Margaret Longworth
chatted to Matt Monro's daughter
Michele
on her Tuesday morning show on Tuesday
29 June 2010
We
looked into which of our presenters had played the song, and found it was played
by Richard Smith on his "
The
reason it took her back to when she was a young mum was because the lyrics are "four
kids from 1 to 4, pretty soon there'll be one more", and that was Hazel's
situation at the time the song was a hit. Sadly, only three of her five
children are still living, and they're pictured here in 1996
Volunteers
Week was 1-7 June 2010 and Radio
Halton celebrated with an information stall on Thursday 3 June 2010 in the corridor by Entrance 2
of Halton General Hospital, playing some of our programmes
You
can hear Radio Halton 24 hours a day, as our broadcasts continue
overnight thanks to our Myriad software providing a 'round the
clock' schedule.
This saves us relying on the satellite for another service to keep us going
Two new volunteers have joined our team,
which takes our number into double figures. Welcome to Laura
Kirk, who started her training in June, while Jack Kelly began training in July
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
Cara
Dillon's concert at 
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"? Answer: 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
27 July 2010