Award Winning Radio for the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
“Dancing Queen” by Abba has been announced as the most requested song of 2018 by patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. It’s the first time that the song has topped our annual request chart on its 16th appearance. It managed to beat “My Way” by Frank Sinatra into second place, which despite being Radio Brockley’s all-time most requested song […]
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Radio Brockley celebrated the new year by being nominated for FIVE awards at the 2019 Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA) awards, which will this year be held in Stoke-on-Trent. It’s the station’s most ever nominations at this stage, and includes a nomination for the prestigious “Station Of The Year”, for which we won Gold in 2018 and have been nominated for the […]
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Radio Brockley has featured in a music video for the very first time! The latest video by Steve Mahoney & The Milkshakes features a kitchen scene in which an old Radio Brockley mug is clearly visible. Steve was the first EVER guest of the Alpha Sessions (then called “Behind The Music”) when the show launched back in 2008 by Emma […]
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Radio Brockley volunteers visited patients in the brand new wards for the first time last Sunday, as The Stanmore Building was finally opened to patients at the RNOH. The opening of the new building comes after a thirty-year campaign to replace the hut wards which had been in operation since World War 2. The building includes: * a 27 bed […]
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Frank Sinatra returned to the top of the request chart for the first time this year to become the most request artist of November by patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Frank Sinatra is one of only two artists to have topped our annual chart on four occasions (the other being Michael Jackson), reaching our annual number one four […]
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Former Capital Radio and Jazz FM presenter Peter Young, often nicknamed “PY the Pork Pie”, sadly passed away this week. Peter had a very special connection to Radio Brockley, having made his first radio appearance on the station way back in 1969, when he accompanied a friend of his who was volunteering at the time. He presented for 20 minutes […]
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Two of Radio Brockley’s long-serving members were presented with certificates last weekend for their services to Radio Brockley for a combined total of 50 years!! Marge Walker joined the station back in 2003 and has been a very popular patient rep on the wards, a long-time supporter of Bedside Bingo, and has putting together some amusing and compelling speech packages […]
Read moreRadio Brockley, London’s longest-running hospital radio station, celebrates its 52 birthday today. The station was started on 2nd October 1966 by six volunteers who had previously volunteered at Radio Edgware. The hospital’s engineer at the time, Jack Upton, set up the station in a disused air-raid shelter near to the old “intensive care” unit. The shelter had a leaky roof […]
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Radio Brockley’s newly launched Mental Health programme – “Mending Minds” has been reaching out to a large new audience. Since its launch in July, well over 300 people have listened to the first few programmes online, as well as the audience in the hospital listening on Monday evenings. The programme is introduced by Sharon Keaney from The Disability Foundation, another […]
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The requests kept rolling in for Abba on Radio Brockley in June, as they remained the most requested artists for the second month in a row by patients of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. It’s the third time they have topped our monthly poll this year, just holding off challenges by Elvis Presley who remained at No.2 and […]
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