Award Winning Radio for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Radio Brockley is preparing to celebrate its 60th anniversary. But 6 of its members have been volunteering for more than half of its history – notching up an astounding 269 years of volunteering between them!!! David Rauch is Radio Brockley’s longest serving volunteer, having been at the station since 1971 – just 5 years after it launched. He is one […]
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Radio Brockley members past and present gathered on Saturday 19 September to celebrate the station’s diamond anniversary. The hospital radio for the RNOH celebrates its 60th anniversary on the 2nd October, making it London’s longest-running hospital radio, and also the longest-running independent radio station in London. Four of the six founder members joined in the celebrations, including two of the […]
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Radio Brockley will soon be celebrating its landmark 60th birthday with a special weekend of live shows and broadcasts. On Friday 2nd October, it will be exactly 60 years since six volunteers, who had broken away from Radio Edgware, went on air for the first time at the RNOH. Radio Brockley owes much to Mr Jack Upton, the hospital’s engineer, […]
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As part of Radio Brockley’s 60th birthday celebrations, its “new music” show Alpha Sessions will also be celebrating a landmark birthday. The show, started by Emma and Alan Joyce back in 2008, will be welcoming back a number of artists to mark 18 years of the programme, which has welcomed hundreds of independent artists to the studio from across the […]
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Radio Brockley will be marking its birthday with a special 3 days of live broadcasts in October. London’s longest-running hospital radio station, which is also the longest running independent radio station in London, will celebrate its 60th birthday on Friday 2nd October. Presenters and volunteers from the last 60 years will be coming back to present special programmes across the […]
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London’s longest running radio station, Radio Brockley, will soon be celebrating it’s landmark 60th birthday and we have a number of special events coming soon to mark the event. The station first went on air on 2nd October 1966, after former members of Edgware Radio decided to set up a radio station at the RNOH. The original studio was set […]
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In the year the Radio Brockley will soon be celebrating its 60th anniversary, Elvis Presley currently has a narrow lead in the race to be the most requested artist of the year. Elvis was confirmed last year as our all-time most requested artist ahead of Queen, who are also currently runners up in the race for the 2026 crown – […]
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Radio Brockley volunteers came out in force to support the annual RNOH Staff Achievement Awards last month. The event took place at The Village hotel in Elstree, and Radio Brockley members were there to provide music for the night, as well as interviewing the winners and other key staff and guests from the evening, including the special guest host Gavin […]
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Radio Brockley recently interviewed a former patient of the RNOH, Glenn Meyer. Due to an accident, he damaged discs in his spine, which caused him so much pain that he was unable to walk. He underwent a number of operations, and, slowly was able to recover his ability to walk. Glenn says “Having successfully undergone spinal fusion surgery at RNOH […]
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Radio Brockley’s most requested act of 2025 has been announced, and for the first time in the request chart’s 41 year history, Abba finally reached the top of our chart – being the most requested artist of the year by patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. It was a very tight race, with the lead changing hands several times […]
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