Our Story

Radio Brockley (RB) is the dedicated hospital radio station for patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Stanmore, north west London.

Our award-winning station is the longest-running hospital radio station in London and is run entirely by volunteers who visit patients on the wards and produce shows to provide entertainment and distraction during their stay at the RNOH.  We also produce shows which feature news and information on what is going on in and around the hospital, as well as healthcare advice.

1966	Radio Brockley was started by six volunteers who broke away from the ill-fated Radio Edgware and approached the authorities at the RNOH in Stanmore. RB owes much to Mr Jack Upton, the hospital’s engineer, who helped the original team set up the station. Tape recorders, a mixer, amplifiers and other equipment were built by and provided by members and the station was officially opened by Harrow East MP, Roy Roebuck, on Sunday 2nd October 1966. The first ‘studio’ was just off the “slope”, near “Intensive Care”. The disused air-raid shelter’s leaky roof affected the sound-quality, as the crystal cartridges dissolved in the damp.  A second shelter half way along the slope became RB’s next home for a few years. The first programme was a request show. Most of RB’s broadcasts took place on Sunday evenings and, although Bedside Bingo became popular, the request shows proved to be the station’s main strength, as they are today.  When RB was not on air, the BBC ‘Light Programme’ (later ‘Radio 2’) was re-broadcast via the hospital’s internal hard-wire system as the sustaining service for patients. All this was before BBC Radio 1, 2, 3 or 4 had been launched, pirate radio ruled the pop airwaves, and commercial radio in the UK was still illegal with legal stations 7-years away!
1967	Roger Moffatt of BBC Radio 1 & 2 helped RB celebrate its 1st birthday.  It was also the first outside broadcast (OB) from the wards. Using a Philips open-reel tape recorder, RB was present to commemorate the opening of the M1 extension from Watford to Edgware. Permission was given for RB members to ride in the opening ceremony’s cavalcade, so the proceedings could be recorded and later relayed for the patients to hear.
1968	RB starts Bedside Bingo, devised and presented by Ghislaine Painter, then a student nurse at RNOH.
1969	Peter Young (RIP) presented his first ever radio show on RB from the air-raid shelter studio. He went on to achieve major success on Capital Radio, Smooth and Jazz FM.  Peter returned to RB 37 years later to broadcast once more for our 40th anniversary celebrations.
1971	RB moves into its current secure and sturdy brick-building that was previously used as a laboratory, although not all the space we now have was available for use. A low-impedance bedside headset network is installed in most wards. This remained our primary means of reaching our audience until 2012. On 1st July, current member David Rauch joined.
1973	The first “phone out” takes place.  The idea, suggested by Pauline Cobden, way before the days of mobile phones, was that RB asked the patient if there was anyone in the world they would like to call from their bedside, at RB’s expense.  The call was then connected and the whole conversation broadcast live on RB.  Over the years many phone outs took place, linking many people with their friends and family in faraway places.  As you can imagine, these led to many, very special, emotional moments, both for the patients, the person on the other end of the phone and our volunteers.
1974	Current member Ron Laver joined RB.
1976	On 5 June, a sponsored “bed push” takes place between the RNOH Stanmore and the RNOH at Great Portland Street (now RNOH Bolsover Street) in central London, then the headquarters of the RNOH.   The distraction of several men dressed in nurses’ uniforms pushing a bed complete with “patient” attracted a lot of attention, such that when navigating Marble Arch a minor road traffic accident occurred between two vehicles. Mike Shelton’s backstage interviews with the original cast of “Side By Side By Sondheim” was broadcast on several hospital radio stations via the now defunct Hospital Radio Information Link.
1977	RB is given the room which is now the Control Room.  Previously it had been used as a porters rest room. In September, current member Keith Reeve joined RB.
1979	Local resident Pat Sharp joined RB, and promptly had his push bike stolen from outside the studio.  Pat went on to work on BBC Radio 1 as well as other national and regional stations in the UK. Founder member Barry Cobden, assisted by Keith Reeve, recorded the official opening of the Graham Hill Unit by HRH Prince Charles, for later broadcast.  The speeches were made in the Patients Centre, with Barry and Keith huddled in the manager’s office with a tape recorder connected to the microphones via long cables.
1980	We compiled our first Patients All-time Top 100 music chart, with “Way Down” by Elvis Presely at No 1. New charts were compiled in 1982, 1993 and 1996.
1981	On the Spring Bank Holiday Monday, Keith Reeve presented a marathon 6-hour show “Keith Springs Into Summer”, and is joined by special guest Jeremy Beadle.  Beadle was certainly about as he presented his part of the show live from the wards, and ran the whole OB operation single handed, including running all the cables out himself.  Keith recalls that Jeremy was great on air and with the patients, but a bit of a handful!
1984	A major studio refit utilised the current Control Room for the first time, with a new mixer constructed by apprentices from the nearby Marconi Industries. Most of the building work was done by RB volunteers.
1985	The Annual Request Chart begins, an idea introduced by Steph Farley. Nick Ashton joined Radio Brockley.  Nick’s technical skills prove to be invaluable for the upcoming marathon broadcast, and he still helps us today when we need his in-depth knowledge. On 24th August we commenced a week long sponsored broadcast marathon, where each presenter broadcasts for 24 hours non-stop, from the Patients Centre.  It raised £2500 and was a massive leap forward in our technological capabilities.  Michael Sundin (ex-Blue Peter presenter) and Susan Tully (actress from BBC TV’s Grange Hill & Eastenders) paid us a visit. In the autumn a Wheelchair Race is held on the old staff car park to raise further funds. RB’s epic radio production of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” is aired for the first time over the festive period.  The cast includes consultants, senior nursing staff and RB members, some in cameo roles. The producer is Steph Farley, and the editor Keith Reeve.
1986	The RNOH escapes closure (again), with “Keep Orthopaedics In Stanmore” car stickers common locally. However, the hospital loses its Accident & Emergency Unit, which is now the Jubilee Rehabilitation Ward. Permanent underground cables are run from the studio to the Patients Centre to facilitate more OB’s and to provide a radio feed to the buildings’ PA system.   In August another week long sponsored broadcast marathon takes place in the Patients Centre and raised a further £2500 from sponsorship.  John Barnes, then still a Watford footballer, visited the event.
1987	A mini-marathon is held to celebrate RB’s 21st birthday. The event again takes place in the Patients Centre, but this time it’s only over a long weekend. Fellow members Nick Ashton and Dave Bottcher built the electronics for a new mixer and re-cabled the studio.  David Reeve (Keith’s father) manufactured the mixer casing and panels.  It is still our primary broadcast mixer to this day, and has proved to be reliable and durable.
1988	We purchased our first CD player, a controversial decision at the time, but we found that the needle lasts a long time! A Balloon Race is held to raise further funds.  Permission is sought from Air Traffic Control to release them from the main car park on a Sunday afternoon.  The event did not work too well on radio!
1989	Capital Radio’s “Help A London Child” charity donated £7,000 for the installation of an inductive loop system (low power AM transmission) on the Sir William Coxon, Colonel Wood and Lina Williams Wards (which were then the children’s wards).
1990	On Sunday 11th February, ex-member and broadcaster Pat Sharp, then with London’s Capital Radio, officially launches the inductive loop AM service on 301m or 999kHz. A sponsored attempt at the world record for visiting all the London Underground Stations in a single day is made by members Steve Atkins & Syd Jarvis. The funds are used to extend the inductive loop system to other wards.
1991	A third 7-day broadcast marathon is held in the Patients Centre to celebrate RB’s 25th anniversary. Celebrations are held in the Mike Heaffey Centre, now part of the Aspire National Training Centre, with many past members returning for the event. Current members Alan Joyce and Martin Gold joined.
1992	In December, RB’s longest running weekday programme begins – “The Thursday Something Experience”, featuring Keith Reeve, Paul Downer, Alan Tomlinson, Anne James & Sue Weston. It ran, with slightly modified formats and personnel, until March 2020 with Keith Reeve always involved. The very first Christmas Raffle, organised by Daniel Gee, raises £198.
1994	Programmes are broadcast on RB 7-days a week for the first time.
1995	Our members began helping with the car parking at Edgware School’s Sunday Car Boot Sales. This proved very lucrative for the station, with over £4000 raised over the next 6 years.
1996	A second sponsored Tube run takes place, this time by Alan Joyce, Paul Joyce, Joe Lemer & Mandy Segall.
1997	We purchase our first MiniDisc machine, and dispense with our tape cartridge players. The inductive loop system is further extended to Ward 4.
1999	Member Josh Holzman makes our annual request chart Top 40 with his re-recording of Steps “Better Best Forgotten” under the alias “Brockley Tubby Steps”. Tony McNulty, then the MP for Harrow, was interviewed by Daniel Gee for “The Missing Link” news programme.  Other interviewees in the year were Douglas Cameron (broadcaster) and Boy George (singer).
2001	The Christmas Raffle raises over £1000 for the first time, and is again organised by Daniel Gee.
2004	At the annual Hospital Radio Awards, Daniel Gee’s interview with then RNOH Chairman Donald Hoodless MBE wins the gold award for “Best Speech Package”, the first of many awards for RB.  The show was compiled by Suz Joyce.
2005	Jackie Liff gives birth to the “Brockley Grandbaby”, Benjamin, on 1st July.  Benjamin’s parents, Jackie and Mike, met each other at RB, as did Jackie’s parents Shirley and Les Sackwild.
2006	Natalie Cassidy from BBC TV’s “Eastenders” visited the studio, the wards and takes questions from patients on-air after Beside Bingo. To celebrate our ruby (40th) anniversary a Reunion Party is held in a sports centre in Borehamwood.  Founder members join other members past and present for a wonderful evening of celebrations.   The Ruby Broadcast Weekend takes place around our birthday on 2nd October.  The schedule included 40 celebrity voices, the return of many ex-members to present special shows, Alan Joyce and Lorraine Joyce interviewing all-time request chart favourite Cliff Richard, well known broadcaster Peter Young returning to the station where it all started for him in 1969 to present a special show, and a surprise visit on the Saturday afternoon from then local resident and singer Alison Moyet.
2007	RB purchased an “Autoplus” automation system from Westcountry Broadcast.  It’s part funded by the Rotary Club of Edgware and Stanmore with the aim for RB to become a 24/7 station.
2008	David Rauch implements the online music catalogue.  As well as being available in the studio, it allows members to plan shows and check if we have a particular piece of music from anywhere there is an Internet connection.  The facility also records the requests we play, which assists in the compilation of our annual request chart. During our annual anniversary weekend we launch our 24/7 service.  Although the music library on the system was very limited at this time, most of our music is now sourced from the system.   Also during the anniversary weekend, Jeremy Levene and Marge Walker do a non-stop 24 hour sponsored show, and are joined for part of it by children’s entertainer and TV personality Dave Benson-Phillips and HBA President June Snowdon.
2010	On the 10th April, RB relays live the opening of the new RNOH Outpatient Assessment Centre, at Bolsover Street in Central London, by HRH Prince Andrew.  It was an ambitious project, masterminded by Keith Reeve who also provided the live commentary from Bolsover Street on the day.  The show’s anchor at Stanmore was Alan Joyce, supported by Tim McKenzie, Paul Downer, Graham Rich, Emma Nouriel and Lorraine Joyce.  Pre-recorded interviews were interlaced with live content and patient requests during the 3-hour special programme. In July, Alan Joyce launches “Brockley News” on Sunday evenings at 8pm, just before Bedside Bingo.  The programme is a weekly news digest of what’s going on in and around the hospital, and features many special guests, interesting information and interviews, including senior hospital staff.
2011	RB wins the Gold award for “Special Event” at the annual HBA Awards, for coverage of the opening of the RNOH Outpatient Assessment Centre at Bolsover Street in 2010. Some of our lady members and wives take part in the Adidas Women’s 5k Run in Hyde Park on the 11th September to raise funds for RB.
2012	Emma Nouriel’s “Alpha Sessions” becomes the first RB show to be regularly aired on another radio station, Able Radio in South Wales. In March RB pilots a webstream via the internal WiFi Spark pay-for-use service, which has recently been installed around the hospital.   The RB webstream, via WiFi Spark, is officially launched by HBA President June Snowdon during the anniversary weekend in late September.  RB is the first HR in the UK to broadcast via this method. On 18th October, The Garden Productions filmed RB members on the wards collecting  requests and presenting them on air.  The filming was for a BBC Open University series called “Keeping Britain Alive – The NHS In A Day”.  Only a brief clip was used in the final edit, featuring Paul Downer and Graham Rich presenting some requests live on air, and the programme was aired on BBC 2 on 7th May 2013.   A supper quiz is held on 24th November, organised by RB members and their families, which raised over £1100 for the station.   Keith Reeve is granted special permission by Buckingham Palace to be present for a surprise visit by HRH Princess Eugenie, the RNOH Patron, to the children’s wards for their Christmas party.
2013	Radio Brockley is nominated for 3 HBA Awards – Station of The Year, Special Event and Best Speech Package.  Several members attend the HBA Conference and Awards, held this year in Blackpool. Although it has been ongoing for some time, the project to reduce our vinyl record library becomes very evident, with much space now appearing on the library shelves as much of our music is now sourced from our automation system.
2014	Radio Brockley is nominated for 4 HBA Awards, and won three of these – Station of The Year (bronze) and Best Speech Package (gold) for Keith Reeve’s coverage of Princess Eugenie’s visit to the childrens wards.  Molly Townson won Best Newcomer (silver) and was a finalist for Best Female Presenter, the only person to be nominated for more than one award this year.  The HBA Conference and Awards were hosted in Bristol. On June 8, for the first time, Radio Brockley broadcast live from the hospital’s annual Buttercup Walk fund raising day. Rather than using the long lengths of cables which we used to use for OBs, this time we used the hospital’s wifi network, a project which Keith Reeve and Adam Levy had been working on for some months. Although there were some technical issues, overall the broadcast was a huge success, and an important aspect of our broadcasting capability was restored. On Christmas Eve we broadcast a 2-hour live show from the Duke of Gloucester Ward using our new outside broadcast wifi method for the second time.
2015	Radio Brockley is nominated for, and won, 4 HBA Awards, namely Station Promotion – The Thursday Experience, Special Event – Charity Bike Ride, Best Female Presenter – Marge Walker (all bronze), Station of the Year (silver).  This year the HBA Conference and Awards took place in Newcastle. As last year, we broadcast live from the Buttercup Walk. This time, we were also able to speak to the walkers en route, using a 3G connection. Radio Brockley was nominated for a Harrow Heroes Team Award. Sadly, we did not win but we were up against some very worthy competition from the 33 entries. In March, we upgraded our automation system with new hardware, a current operating system and much larger hard drive capacity. We retained use of the Autoplus automation software, using a much updated version. In July, we ceased transmitting on 999 kHz AM, via our low power inductive loop system, when the cable was severed. We had transmitted this way since 1989, but few people now used it. Our intranet webstream was the method of choice and offered superior audio quality. RB stalwarts Ron Laver and Keith Reeve appeared on BBC1’s “The One Show” in August, proudly wearing their blue RB polo shirts. In December we disposed of our entire library of over 500 CD singles, as all the tracks required were now present on the playout system.
2016	Radio Brockley is nominated for 4 HBA Awards and won in 3 categories –  Station Promotion for “Thursday Live” (bronze award), Best Specialist Music Programme for “The Country Music Show” with Ron Laver (nomination), Best Speech Package “RNOH Clinical Trials Day” with Ron Laver and Sue Weston (silver award) and Station Of The Year (gold award).  The latter was particularly pleasing as we had won the silver and bronze awards in the previous years. This was Radio Brockley’s 50th year and the award was a great tribute to the hard work the whole team, past and present, puts in. Long serving member Keith Reeve also received the prestigious “John Whitney Award” for his “outstanding contribution to Hospital Radio”.  Keith said “I’m absolutely stunned to win the John Whitney Award.  Hospital Radio has taught me so much, I’ve met many wonderful people and it’s a wonderful hobby”. The 2016 HBA Awards ceremony and Conference was held locally at the Watford Hilton, with a Radio Brockley contingent of 13 present at the awards ceremony.  As a local station, and to support the conference activities, Radio Brockley members welcomed groups of conference delegates to the Radio Brockley studios on the Friday and Saturday.  This was very successful as a networking opportunity, and good feedback was received from those who visited us. Starting in late May the old Presenter Studio, store cupboard and walkway was stripped out and an enlarged Presenter Studio built. Keith Reeve led the project with support from many of the station’s members, especially David Rauch and Jack Andrew, as well as an external builder. The room is now much more accessible for people with disabilities, has better lighting and electrical provision and provides scope to install equipment to create a second radio production studio which would greatly improve our flexibility. The new room was been dedicated to long serving member, Paul Downer, who passed away in December 2015 and left us a legacy in his will. To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we presented a season of special shows every Sunday in September. Past presenters returned to revive old show formats, and we did several outside broadcasts on the wards, including Bedside Bingo. Over the weekend of 1st and 2nd October, the latter being our actual 50th anniversary, we had a whole weekend of special shows, with more guest presenters, outside broadcasts, the all time patient request charts, outside broadcasts. Presentations were made to four members with a total of 105 years’ service – David Rauch (45 years), Alan Joyce (25 years), Martin Gold (25 years) and Emma Joyce (10 years).   The long awaited redevelopment of the hospital at our Stanmore site finally commenced in August, with the old main car park dug up, and the Patients Centre building demolished to provide the space. In early October, we moved our webstream to the RNOH-FREE-WIFI service, which is widely available around the hospital, and is much more easily accessible to our listeners than our old webstream. They can also use the Internet for other things whilst they listen to us.
2017	Radio Brockley is nominated in 4 categories for the 2017 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards, and won in 3 of them: Station of the Year (silver), Best Specialist Music Programme – Music Travels with Daniel Edward (bronze), Best Speech Package – The Story of Radio Brockley (gold), and Best Female Presenter – Judy De Hellner (nominated).  Several RB members make the journey to Bolton to be present at the HBA Conference and Awards. Daniel Edward designs and launches a much updated website. In September we said goodbye to the last of our vinyl records.  In 2009 we had around 5,500 7″ singles, fifty 12″ singles and approximately 800 LP’s.  We started to reduce the vinyl library once we were sure we either had a CD copy of the required tracks, or were able to source digital copies, for our automation system.  This was a long process, with much meticulous checking and cross referencing required.  Keith Reeve played the last library record on air, which was “Groovy Baby” by Microbe, as a request for long time patient Nick for his birthday on 24 September. On 3rd December, Keith Reeve is presented with a trophy and certificate during a special live show to commemorate his 40 years outstanding service to Radio Brockley and hospital radio in the UK.  The trophy was presented by the Mayor of Harrow, Margaret Davine, and the certificate by HBA President June Snowden.  Other surprises for Keith were recorded messages from friends, members current and past, veteran pirate DJ Emperor Rosko, Clive Anderson (TV and radio personality), the RNOH Chairman Tony Goldstone CBE, RNOH CEO Rob Hurd, an on-air chat with ‘Diddy’ David Hamilton (DJ), and letters of congratulations from the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, Bob Blackman MP and the CEO of QPR FC (his favourite football team).  Adam Hart-Davis also donated a signed book in Keith’s honour.
2018	The 2018 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards nominations are announced, and Radio Brockley was nominated in 3 categories, and won in 2 of them:  Station of the Year (gold), Best Speech Package (bronze for our coverage of the construction and “topping out” of the new ward block), and Best Programme with Multiple Presenters (nomination for “Thursday Live”).   The HBA Conference and Awards were held in Windsor, with several RB members present. In February, Radio Brockley again supported the RNOH NHS Trust Staff Achievement Awards, which for the first time were held offsite at The Village Hotel, Elstree, hosted by “Supervet” Noel Fitzpatrick. We ran the public address system, providing welcoming music, music drop ins as the winners walked up to the stage, as well as upbeat, party music until the DJ took over later in the evening.  Our team also obtained interviews with Noel and most of the winners. With thanks to our long standing friend Nick Ashton, and his links with Channel 5 TV News, we were donated two Sonifex tele-balance units which allow us to put phone calls on air.  These replaced 40 year old units, and not surprisingly, were a massive improvement in functionality and quality once installed by Keith Reeve.  They were first used in June on “Thursday Live”, hosted by Kate Beatty, just a few days after installation. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of our new music programme “Alpha Sessions“, the programme hosts Alan and Emma Joyce organised a weekend of live music on 20th & 21st October, and many of the artists who have featured on the show returned to play live.   Additional equipment was set up, and for the first time we streamed many of the acts via “Facebook Live”.  They were well supported by the membership. During our Alpha Sessions anniversary weekend, David Rauch, our longest serving member, presented HBA Long Service certificates to Sue Weston (35 years) and Marge Walker (15 years). The Stanmore Building welcomed its first patients over the weekend of 8th & 9th December.  It was the first significant new RNOH building on the Stanmore site for decades, meaning most patients previously accommodated in 1940’s EMS huts and century old brick buildings, were now in modern, 21st century wards. At 7pm on 9th December, Alan Joyce hosted Brockley News, with Keith Reeve, following up on his reports over the 28-months it took to build, reporting live from the new building. Later that evening, our first Bedside Bingo winner in the new building was Patrick on the London Irish Ward.
2019	On 21st March, The Stanmore Building was officially opened by HRH Prince Andrew, RNOH patron, and HRH Princess Eugenie, patron of the RNOH Charity and accompanied by husband Jack Brooksbank on their first official engagement.  RB relayed the opening speeches live during a special programme which included interviews with key people responsible for the construction and commissioning of the ward block, and also an interview with RNOH CEO Rob Hurd and RNOH Chairman Prof Tony Goldstone CBE.  The programme was managed by Keith Reeve, who also provided commentary from the building, with support from Caroline Keating, David Rauch, Ron Laver and Alan Joyce, and also Sarah Wright of the SCAT Bone Cancer Trust. At the 2019 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards, “Alpha Sessions 10”, produced by Emma & Alan Joyce with Ron Laver, wins Gold for Special Event, and it’s a Bronze for Kate Beatty for Best Newcomer.  We were nominated in three other categories, meaning we made the top 10, but did not win an award for Station of the Year, Best Speech Package and Station Promotion. In April, our colleagues in the RNOH IT Department migrated us to the rebranded NHS Free-Wi-Fi service which is available virtually anywhere in the hospital.   In May we launched our podcast service which is available from most of the usual podcast sources. Emma & Alan Joyce and Neil Boyt delivered this project, which was hosted on Spreaker
2020	The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic swept across the world and the UK, so we suspended live shows in mid-March to protect our volunteers, the patients and staff. We engaged with the RNOH NHS Trust to produce a weekly Podcast, which was also used as a Brockley News programme, to update anyone interested in how the hospital was handing the situation. The Podcasts involved a member of the RNOH senior management answering questions provided from various people, and helped to keep staff, patients and visitors updated. The programmes were produced by Keith Reeve and Alan Joyce. Sadly, the pandemic caused the demise of one of our longest running progammes of 52 years, Bedside Bingo. The fun game had taken place on Sunday evenings each week, but now, with restricted patient access and reduce numbers of volunteers available, it was not possible to continue with the format. At the delayed 2020 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards, for the first time announced via a webcast on 13th April due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations, RB wins Gold for Station Of The Year (the third time we have won the top award), and were nominated for Best Specialist Music Programme (Bedside Broadway with Sophie Horrocks), and Best Speech Package (Up On The Roof with Caroline Keating).   Limited live shows resumed in mid-June whilst ensuring we complied with the RNOH polices on social distancing, wearing a mask and having a fortnightly Covid-19 Swab Test.   From 1st November, “The Sunday Request Show” moved from its traditional 8pm slot to 2pm to allow members who can only attend at weekends to get their swab test, and still contribute by visiting patients.  This had become even more important as patients were generally not allowed visits from their relatives or friends due to the pandemic. In December, we premier the first in a series of programmes entitled “Searching For The Grey Lady – A Ghost From WW1 At The RNOH”, which are also made available simultaneously via our podcast service. The programmes describe how the site came to be a hospital in the 1880’s up to when it accepted wounded soldiers during WW1. Nicola Lane of Pegleg Productions, who is also an RNOH patient, produced the programmes with funding supplied byfrom the Heritage Lottery Fund. Keith Reeve was the narrator for the series, and several other Radio Brockley members voiced parts in the programmes.
2021	We submitted a record number of nine entries for the 2021 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards. Rebecca Lewis won Bronze for Female Presenter of the Year, plus we were nominated for Station of the Year and Rebecca Lewis for Best Newcomer. As coronavirus patients were again being treated at the hospital, patient visiting by our volunteers was suspended from early January. However, we continued to produce live shows in the usual slots. Patient visiting resumed in early March, with patients pleased to see a friendly face at their bedside once again, especially as visits from relatives and friends were still restricted. Four members receive long service certificates from the HBA as well as engraved glass trophies for a total of 125 years’ service. These were David Rauch (50 years), Martin Gold (30 years), Alan Joyce (30 years) and Emma Joyce (15 years).
2022	In the 2022 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards, RB won Bronze in the Station Of The Year category, which is the seventh time we have finished in one of the top three places.  In the Best Speech Package category we won Gold for Keith Reeve’s Brockley News feature on The Stanmore Steppers. Our thanks to Alan Joyce and Ron Laver for compiling and editing this years entries once again. RB is the first hospital radio to migrate its podcast content across to the new HBA Podcast Network hosted on Captivate. The latest in a series of firsts for RB over the decades. In August, a presentation took place for Keith Reeve to commemorate his 45-year service to the station. A glass trophy was presented by one of the 1966 founder members Barry Cobden.
2023	After a break of 3-years due to the coronavius pandemic, the RNOH Staff Achivement Awards return in event form. A presentation dinner was staged at The Village Hotel, Elstree, with the host “The Sinnerman” Chaser from ITV’s “The Chase, Paul Sinha. RB once again provided PA support, audio enhancement for the presentations themselves, conducted interviews with some of the winners and afterwards Alan Joyce produced a Brockley News show on the event. RB was nominated in the Best Speech Package category for a PSP Spinal Sarcoma Survey podcast produced by Keith Reeve at the 2023 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards.
2024	The RNOH Staff Achivement Awards at The Village Hotel , Elstree, had comedian, presenter, writer and actor Lucy Porter as the celebrity host. PA support was once again provided by RB, and a Brockley News show featured the highlights. At the 2024 HBA National Hospital Radio Awards Macie Lewis was nominated in the Best Newcomer and Best Female Presenter category. In September, after production runs in their thousands and about 44-years, the last Radio Brockley mug was sold to member Nicky Mehta. Over the years, many mugs were given away as prizes on Bedside Bingo, which ended in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Many mugs were sold at public events, bought for or by family, friends and colleagues, as well as by guests visiting the studio. If you’ve got one, it’s now a collectors piece!