![]() ![]() Minimum time commitment for this role is two hours per week. They also help as needed behind the scenes, whether that means joining in fund-raising activities or vacuuming the studio!įurther information about HRR can be found in our Hospital Radio Reading Magazine, available in some public areas of the hospital and on the wards, as well as on the HRR website or by emailing you feel you might like to join us and become a member of HRR you are welcome to contact Gerard Rocks (Chairman) directly. Specialist programmes at other times include comedy, short stories, interviews, programmes of old-time, jazz, blues, country and classical music, as well as our very own commentary on all Reading FC home fixtures.Īs well as presenting those programmes, our volunteers have an important role to play by visiting patients on the wards (when infection control measures allow) to publicise our service, showing patients how to listen in and collecting their requests. We also feature patients’ requests in “Good Afternoon Royal Berks” on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons between 2 – 4pm. Our live “HRR Requests” shows are broadcast most evenings 8– 10pm (repeated the following morning 8am – 10am) as well as on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. At other times you can hear recorded programmes or an automated “jukebox” of music and useful information and news updates from Sky News Radio every hour. We are staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers and are on-air 24 hours a day, including live programmes every evening as well as on midweek afternoons and during the day at weekends. Hospital Radio Reading (HRR) is the Royal Berkshire Hospital’s very own radio station and has been keeping Reading’s hospital patients company since 1957. ![]()
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