Category: Music

“My Way” by Frank Sinatra has been announced as our most requested song of all time by patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. As the request chart celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, Radio Brockley’s longest-serving volunteer David Rauch, alongside Macie Lewis, counted down the most requested songs of the last 40 years. “My Way” has made our request […]

As part of our 40th anniversary of the Radio Brockley Request Chart this year, a special live show will be broadcast to announce the Top 40 most requested songs of all-time, as chosen by patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital since 1985. Earlier in the year, Elvis Presley was revealed as being the most requested artist over the last […]

As the Request Chart celebrates it’s 40th anniversary this year, we look back on some of the artists that patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital have been asking to hear over the decades: 2000s As the chart entered a new millennium, the request chart was being broadcast monthly with huge numbers coming in from the Adolescent Unit. However, classic […]

The Beatles could be on course to top our annual artist request chart for the very first time, as they have a narrow lead at the mid-year stage in the request chart. The fab four have never previously been higher than number 3 in our request chart, having achieved that in 2008 and 2010. Earlier in the year they were announced […]

As the Request Chart celebrates it’s 40th anniversary this year, we look back on some of the artists that patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital have been asking to hear over the decades: 1990s As the chart entered a new decade, hosting duties were passed to Alan Tomlinson and Dave Mason at the start of the decade, and then […]

Elvis Presley was announced as our most requested artist of all time by patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. As the request chart celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, original host Keith Reeve and current host Alan Joyce counted down the most requested artists of the last 40 years. Elvis has topped our annual chart on three occasions, in […]

As the Request Chart celebrates it’s 40th anniversary this year, and ahead of our big chart this weekend to find out the all-time most requested artists, we look back on some of the artists that patients at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital have been asking to hear over the decades: 1980s The chart was started by long-serving member Keith Reeve […]