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The best music for the Health Park, we are Radio Clatterbridge.

Founded in 1951, Radio Clatterbridge is one of the oldest hospital radio stations in the world. We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) staffed entirely by volunteers dedicated to providing a round-the-clock service of music, entertainment and information to patients, staff and visitors to the Clatterbridge Health Park, and Clatterbridge Cancer Centres.

Funded by our members, as well as donations and grants, plus support from organisations on the health park and within the local community, our volunteers give up their spare time to manage, present, assist on programmes, conduct interviews and ward visits to collect requests.

 

This Bank Holiday Monday From 12pm on Radio Clatterbridge

Please Don’t Take Them Away - The Story of The Great British Pirate Era

60 years ago, on the Easter Weekend of 1964, radio listening in Britain was changed forever. With the start of broadcasts from Britain’s first daytime commercial radio station Radio Caroline.

Anchored off the Essex coast and free of government control, Caroline (and the offshore radio stations that followed in her footsteps over the next few years) gave the British Radio Listeners a complete transformation in their radio landscape. In place of the limited pop music choice offered by the BBC Light Programme, listeners learned to love Offshore Radio Stations such as Radio Caroline, Radio London, Swinging Radio England, Radio 270 and many more.

Exactly 60 years on, join Mark Stafford, for “Please Don’t Take Them Away - The Story Of The Great British Pirate Era” as we revisit the Swinging 60’s and tell the full story of those great radio days along with a soundtrack of the wonderful music of the era.

Along the way Dave Cash, Robbie Dale, Tony Prince, Roger “Twiggy” Day, Don Allen, Johnnie Walker, John Peel and more will tell us exactly what life was like breaking all the rules in a life at sea.

Radio Clatterbridge Shortlisted for Four HBA Awards in 2024.

The dedication and commitment of our volunteers at Radio Clatterbridge has been recognised by the Hospital Broadcasting Association by being shortlisted for four awards. The winners will be announced at the Annual Conference and Gala Dinner in April, The Radio Clatterbridge nominations are:

STATION OF THE YEAR
FEMALE PRESENTER OF THE YEAR - MANDY SHEPHERD
MALE PRESENTER OF THE YEAR - STEVE EVANS
BEST SPECIALIST MUSIC PROGRAMME - JAKE’S JUKEBOX

Well done to all participating Hospital Radio Stations that have been shortlisted

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