Welcome to Ian Jowsey, NHR’s newest presenter.
Ian comes to NHR from Amber Radio (Nuneaton Hospital Radio) and is bringing with him the show “Pop Into the Sixties”.
Music from the sixties as well as any requests you might have for him.
Ian will be on NHR every Thursday between 10:00 and 12:00 (11:00 and 13:00 on 21st March)
Welcome Ian.
Other Changes
Philip Metcalf moves to 17:00 each Thursday with his Golden Years Show.
On the evening of Saturday 2nd March, at St Peter’s Church in Ruddington, The Boots Orchestra performed a charity concert of French classical music, in aid of Nottingham Hospitals’ Radio – kicking off NHR’s 50th Anniversary events for this special celebration year.
Despite wet and wintry conditions, the event was well-attended, and the concert itself was a great success.
This was the third time that Boots Orchestra had played in support of NHR, following previous concerts in 2015 and 2019. We would like to thank all who took part and helped to make it such a special night.
The event raised a fantastic total of £558.40 for NHR.
A massive thank you to everyone who took part, attended or donated.
Sport
Highlights – Featuring Featuring Nottingham Forest v Bristol City, Notts County v Gillingham and Nottingham Forest v Newcastle United.
Local Theatre
Max Bromley chatting about “Romeo & Juliet” at the Lace Market Theatre
Music
Mel Gaynor, Simple Minds’ longest serving drummer
Search for us on your favourite podcast provider of visit our podcasts page here
This Wednesday between 19:00 & 21:00 NHR brings you the AtoZ of Pop Valentines special
Richard Smith will take you through the letters of the Alphabet using romantic songs and information about the day.
Listen via your bedside unit, NHR Wifi Radio, MyTuner Radio App or online at nhradio.org.uk/listen.
In December 2023 the Radcliffe On Trent Male Voice Choir held their annual Charity Concert and we are delighted to announce that for this concert the choir chose NHR as their sponsor.
The event was extremely well attended and the sum raised for NHR amounted to £2000.
The Chairman of the Choir, John Bartle, visited the studio on Friday 2ndFebruary to present us with the cheque for this amount and the representatives of NHR showed their grateful appreciation for this marvellous achievement.
This Weeks Podcasts from NHR
Visit the NHR podcasts page (nhradio.org.uk/podcasts) or your favourite podcast provider for these and loads more.
It’s been a busy week on the NHR podcasts.
Gareth Howell, Andrea West and Sophie West from NUH Pantomime “Aladdin”
NHR Sport weekly highlights show.
There are loads of other great podcasts available from NHR, just search for Nottingham Hospitals Radio on your favourite Podcast provider or go to our podcasts page
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Did you know that most weeks, NHR publishes are Sports Highlights podcast?
You never need miss out on all the goal action again. You can even go back and hear the goal action from past games.
Just pop along to our Podcasts Page.
Of course, if you are in the podcast mood, we have a great selection of interviews, Desert Island Books and more.
Nottingham Hospitals radio excited to bring you ‘Christmas Advent 2023’
Working with the NUH arts co-ordinator and a number of local schools we bring you festive music from the pupils.
Thanks to The Becket School, Colonel Frank Seeley Academy, Edwalton Primary School, George Spencer Academy and Bramcote College and especially their pupils for submitting pieces for us to play out.
Listen in at 10:00 am on the 14 & 15th December and 19th-22nd December to hear their work.
You can listen on your bedside unit, NHR Radio, online at nhradio.org.uk/listen or on the MyTuner Radio app.
Merry Christmas from all at NHR
Steve Coulby, a volunteer at Nottingham Hospitals radio scooped “Recognising Innovation” award at this weekends National Hospital Broadcasting Association conference.
The award recognised the stations “Wifi radio” project.
Steve identified that there were many patients in the hospital that had no access to entertainment as they did not have access to a smart device. To solve this issue, he came up with the idea of building ‘Radio’ units which can be placed in wards, day rooms, side rooms, and bedsides. Utilising the hospital guest wifi network the units play the hospital stations output via inbuilt speakers or via the headphone socket.
The idea, design and build was all undertaken by Steve and 50 units were created.
Innovation and resourcefulness were also needed during the project due to components shortages. He worked directly with suppliers in the UK and USA in order to source the needed parts.
Show presenters from the station now regularly visit some of the wards where the radios are and do dedicated request shows which are proving incredibly popular.
"I cannot thank you and your team enough for the great radios we received. The patients love them as well as the staff, they are currently in use daily, it certainly helps for our older patients and those with dementia. Really appreciate your teams support."
"We love the radios, they make so much difference to the patients and staff"
"When we switch the radio's on the mood and atmosphere in the ward improves."
" The radios are working great and the music is awesome."
Nottingham Hospitals Radio is a registered charity that provides entertainment to the patients and staff of Nottinghams City and QMC hospitals for nearly 50 years. It is run entirely by volunteers and receives no income from the hospital trust. Donations and sponsorship for the station are always very welcome to allow the service to continue. https://nhradio.org.uk
Steve Coulby joined Nottingham Hospitals radio in December 2019, completing his training by March of 2020 and did his first live solo show at the start of Covid Lockdown. He did 3 request shows a week all the way through Covid lockdown. He became the global face of the station as the UK Hospital radio service nationally became a story for the international press featuring on TV, Radio, and Newspapers globally. He became a trustee and committee member taking on the role of Programme Controller. Whilst he doesn’t do regular shows at the moment, he can still be heard sometimes and he is busy in the background trying to improve the station and take it forward.