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Registered Charity No 1068428
When do Radio Halton broadcast?
** We're making more songs available on the playlist so that the same songs don't come round too often** New additions include
it's slow work to get more of the older songs included - but we are improving - see the About Us page Patients can settle back into bed or an easy chair and relax to favourite music through ...
We hope to be able to add BBC Radio Merseyside to another channel soon
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 HBA logo below to go to the site of the organisation for hospital radio in the whole of the UK
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 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" Find out more here... Why do we provide music?
"Music helps – during the times I’ve been really ill, I’ve listened to a lot of music and I find music incredibly therapeutic. There were days particularly when I was having the radiotherapy treatment and when I felt really down, and it’d give me a little bit of a lift and a buzz inside"
Book Reviews
Find out more from http://www.rebelepublishers.com
The winner of the book was Linda, a cardio technician from ECG.
When Margaret asked the question "Which
comedian carries a tickling stick?", she answered in a flash,
Flash Gordon. No, I think Margaret is jesting here, it was of course, Ken
Dodd
Margaret reviewed EJ Knapp's book 'Stealing the marbles' which is available from the usual online
websites in paperback or as
an electronic version from http://www.rebelepublishers.com
Christine Kennedy,
a patient in Clinic C during May 2011, answered Margaret's quiz
question, "how many
football teams are there in Liverpool?" Of course the answer is 2
(Everton and Everton Reserves, says the webmistress!) Christine
won a copy of 'Stealing the marbles'
John Kenwright interviewed star of TV's 'London's Burning' and 'Holby City', Samantha Beckinsale (elder daughter of Richard Beckinsale and half-sister of Kate Beckinsale) on his programme on Thursday afternoon 12 January 2012 He chatted to her about the film Samantha has recently been working on, which is due for release later in 2012
John Kenwright chatted to Matt Monro's daughter Michele on his afternoon show on Thursday 22 December 2011 Find out more about Matt Monro on Michele's website mattmonro.com Robert Carter chatted to local music teacher Anne Turner,
who is celebrating 20 years of private music tuition, on his Wednesday morning programme on 30 November
2011. Anne talked about the choir she runs, and the huge interest in choral singing generated by Gareth Malone's BAFTA-winning TV programme The Choir (also won an Emmy award too) John Kenwright was pleased to welcome a local
poet, Norman Weston,
to the studio in May 2011. It made an interesting change from non-stop
music to have some spoken word material which was entertaining to
hear. Norman
contacted us afterwards to say he thoroughly enjoyed
his time with us and hopes the patients did too Open Air Theatre at Norton Priory  Margaret
Longworth asked a competition question for tickets for 2 adults and 2 children
to see a performance by Chapterhouse Theatre Company of 'Snow White' in the Walled Garden
of Norton Priory on Thursday evening 28 July 2011The prize winner was Margaret Goodall, who was at Entrance 1 of the hospital, making her way to Clinic C. She took her grandchildren to see the performance, thanks to Chapterhouse Theatre who kindly provided the tickets. Find out more about the company here http://www.chapterhouse.org Events
Volunteer Recruitment Fair Radio Halton
volunteers are taking part in the Volunteer Recruitment Fair 2012 on Wednesday 29 February 2012 from 12 noon until 5pm at Riverside College, Kingsway Campus, Kingsway,
Widnes. Please come along to chat with us about how you might be
able to help deliver our service to patients within Halton Hospital All the fun at the Fayre in Halton Hospital Dining Room Mon 12 Dec 2011
There were
stalls selling bags, beauty products, candles, cards, clothing, crafts, floral
gifts, jewellery, purses, pyjamas and more. There were
free mince pies from Santa and his helpers and a free prize raffle as
well Radio Halton
volunteers were also in attendance with music and information on what volunteers do to help patients during
their stay, whether as in-patients or out-patients Keep it Local Fun Day
Margaret,
Derry and Roger from Radio Halton were there too, letting people Our Roger and John will be chatting to Denise and co-organiser Kelly on air in the
next week or so
The Staff Health and Wellbeing Event
was
held at Halton
Hospital on Friday 30 September 2011 Nearly 200 staff attended and Radio Halton's John Kenwright and Robert Carter were also there to play suitable music and answer any questions about the service Radio Halton provides Community Open Day at The Heath Business and Technical Park in Runcorn To celebrate the opening of the new Event Hall at The Heath Business and Technical Park, had a community open day for voluntary groups on Tuesday 19 July 2011. John Lewis and Neil Lancaster from SOG dropped into Roger Sloan's programme on Monday 18 July to chat to him about the event John Lewis is Managing Director of SOG Ltd, the owner and operator of the award-winning park and he has a famous uncle who officially opened the Events Hall: King of the Diddymen himself, Ken Dodd! John Lewis says, "The idea of the Heath Community Open Day is to offer voluntary organisations the chance to showcase what they do in an exhibition. It will give them a platform to promote their work and where possible attract support. We hope it will become an annual fixture"
To
commemorate the open day, Ken Dodd planted the first tree at the small community orchard, in an area of the business park
accessible to the public.
Radio Halton volunteers Margaret Longworth and Pam Eastwood were there with information about the service we provide for patients and the tasks we need volunteers to do on the wards and clinics
Doddy
stopped by our stall and volunteered to record a message for us, which
can be heard on air now and also here (click your back button on your browser to return to this page). Ken, complete with tickling stick, is
pictured with Pam Eastwood Volunteers Week 1 - 7 June
We’re
a very small band of volunteers – only 6 of us – so we
need more people to help us visit the
wards and make sure the radio headsets
are clean and fresh. We had our information
stall on Tuesday 7 June
2011 in the corridor just inside Entrance 2 of Halton Hospital Find out more
about volunteering at the Volunteers Week
website
Sponsored Half Marathon
News We are pleased that interview are now being arranged for another potential volunteer.
Hopefully they can begin
training before too long, but
we do know the enhanced CRB check, required for all volunteers, can take 4
weeks or so to come back Derek
Gates completed his training in November 2011 and now visits the wards and presents a programme from the
studio on Thursday mornings from 10 till 12noon
In October 2011 it was announced that Manchester based band, Marconi Union, had worked with sound therapists
to create a tune that's described by scientific researchers as the
“most relaxing song ever”. Find out more here: http://therandomfact.com/most-relaxing-tune-ever-created-scientifically-by-manchester-band/2210058
What kind of music do people ask to hear?
Top
10
most requested songs Oct to Dec 2011
National Hospital Request Chart Mark Snowdon
of Radio General in Warrington put together a national chart from
hospitals all over the UK. See 2011's Top 40 as well as past
years' charts at
http://www.requestcharts.org.uk
Change the world - or Runcorn at least! Our appeal for more volunteers is called "change the world" - we've put it 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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You can hear Radio Halton exclusively in
Halton General Hospital 24 hours a day, as our broadcasts
continue overnight thanks to our Myriad software providing a 'round the
clock' schedule. We have a
hard-wired system to the bedside and the speakers
Patients on the
wards can use the Radio Halton freephone to request a mention or a song
to help the time pass more easily. 
...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! 
Russell
Watson also told how music helped him through illness, when
chatting to Ken Bruce in Dec 2010:
In January 2012, Margaret Longworth reviewed a crime thriller titled 
A reissued book was reviewed and then given as a prize in a
competition on Tues 9 Aug 2011 by 
Halton
Lea was the venue for a Fun Day on Saturday 25 November 2011, where the
organiser, Denise from H&T Pawnbrokers, decided to put all the
funds raised towards Radio Halton. There was face painting, and a
raffle with prizes donated by small businesses within Halton Lea
Shopping Centre
know
what we do for patients in Halton Hospital by giving out newsletters
and information. The total amount raised was 
7 February 2012