The Sound of Sunday on HRB

The Sound of Sunday was up for an award on 13 April at the National Hospital Radio Awards.  The promo that was produced for the Random Vinyl feature was shortlisted in the Best Station Promotion award.

The feature, which asks someone at random to choose a random number from HRB’s vinyl library, started in 2019, although took an extended break during the pandemic due to the fact that we didn’t have a record player in our remote studio.

The promo may not have won an award, but lots more people were recorded choosing their random vinyl , including Voice of the Balls Alan Dedicoat, and these will be heard in the coming months.

The promo produced to promote our Random Vinyl feature has been nominated for an award.

Random Vinyl asks a different person each week to select a number at random from HRB’s vinyl library and then that track is played – whatever it might be.  Hospital staff and volunteers from other hospital radio stations have chosen numbers as well as people met during HRB’s various outside broadcasts.

The 1 minute long promo is shortlisted for the Best Station Promotion award at the National Hospital Radio Awards and is one of 4 nominations for HRB.  The winners will be announced on Saturday 13 April.

Christmas is well and truly under way on HRB with the traditional start a big success.

The HRB team were live around the wards on Sunday afternoon (10 December) pulling crackers with the staff and patients of the hospital.  They even met a patient who was 100 year old on that day and saw her letter from the King.

Meanwhile more staff were entered into the competition to win a family ticket to the Anvil’s Christmas panto.

Over 20 requests were played for those pulling the crackers.  Adrian on CCU won a goody bag courtesy of Morrisons in Basingstoke in the weekend prize draw and it was Alex who works at the hospital in Winchester who will be taking her family to see the panto next weekend.

Alan Fletcher (Karl Kennedy in Neighbours) and soul singer Alexander O’Neal also joined in the fun as special guests.

The show starts 3 weeks of festive shows on HRB.

After 3 years of not being able to be on the wards and presenting the show remotely, The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show is back to it’s traditional format when it returns this year.

The show is a stand alone show, like no other in The Sound of Sunday’s run with special guests, competitions and lots of Christmas Crackers.

This year the show returns on Sunday 10 December at 12pm with special guests including the casts of the local pantos in Basingstoke and Newbury, Richard Smith talking about The A to Z of Pop going Live plys soul singing legend Alexander O’Neal and Neighbours legend Alan Fletcher AKA Doctor Karl Kennedy wil be joining in too.

The Great Christmas Cracker Dash will be back round the wards live plus at Bishopswood Court and Cherry Blossom Manor.

The Sound of Sunday Big Christmas Show live from 12pm on Sunday 10 December.

The start date of series 33 can now be confirmed – Sunday 10 September 2023 at 1.30pm.

The Sound of Sunday returns with all the regular Sunday afternoon fun and features plus some new ideas.

Soap Update, 60 Second Show Biz, Memory Makers and the Quiet Quarter of An Hour are all back along with the weekend’s Basingstoke Community Lottery results.  Hopefully there will be the return of the weekend prize draw too.

Huntsford continues and there’ll be more chances to win with the return of the Tell Me When Brain Teaser.

Plus Spot the Ball is coming to the radio!

The latest lcoal news and sport plus of course Music on Demand requests from around the hospital, and Residents’ Requests too.

And finally, The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show returns hopefully with the return of a live Christmas Cracker Dash around the awards plus cracker pulls with all the local care homes that are part of Residents’ Requests.

The Sound of Sunday Series 33 startsat 1.30 on 10 September.

The final edition of the 2023 srries of The Sound of Sunday Summer Show is scheduled for Sunday 27 August, but unfortunately the great British summer weather intervened in the original plan.

It was due to be recorded at the Alton Village Fete event in Alton in July, but the weather was so bad that day that the event was postponed until August.  However, on the rearranged date, the weather also intervened and the event was cancelled.

So instead, the show went to Bishopswood Court in Tadley to talk to the residents and play their favourite music.

Hear the show on 27 August from 1.30pm.

The locations for this year’s 3 week series of The Sound of Sunday Summer Show have been confirmed.

The show wil aim to promote what’s going on in Basingstoke during August and will be recorded at a different event each week.

The series will start on 13 August with a show recorded at Cherry Blossom Manor’s sumer fete.

On 20 August, it will move on to the Old Basing Carnival and Show and then on 27 August the show will come from the Alton Village Fete.

Each show will be 90 minutes this year and will also include the day’s local news and 2 episodes of the Sunday afternoon soap opera Huntsford which usually features during the regular edition of The Sound of Sunday.

This will be the first year since the return of the Summer Show that all 3 editions will be recorded on location.

The Sound of Sunday Summer Show, 1.30pm 13/20/27 August.

It’s the start of the Basingstoke Festival on 23 Junbe and this Sunday we’ll be talking about it to Paul Harvey, leader of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Coiuncil.

The festival wil showcase dowzens of events over the next 3 weeks, making arts and culture availabkle to more people in and around Basingstoke.

The event will start with a colourful parade through Basingstoke which HRB will be covering live, and there will also be a preview show just before each of the 3 weekends.

You can hear Paul Harvey talk about what else is to come on this week’s show (18 June) from 1.30pm.

The Sound of Sunday Summer Show will be returning for a new series in August.

The show will promote things going on in Basingstoke during the summer months and will be recorded at some of those events.

The first of the three shows will be on Sunday 13 August.

If you want us to promote something going on this summer, then send us an email with the details – summer@soundofsunday.co.uk