The Sound of Sunday on HRB

Sunday 28 MAy is the final dayof the Premier League season and as usual The Sound of Sunday will be on air to tell the story of the afternoon.

With the title decided and most of the top of the table issues sorted, the attention this year will be on the relegation places.  Two of three clubs will join Southampton in the Championship next season but it wil depend on the results of the teams involved.

Leeds look to be relegated unless they can win against Tottenham but the other place is very much between Everton and Leicester.  Leicester need to win and hope that Everton will slip up.  Anything other than a win against Bournemouth will see Everton relegated and Leicester safe.

All 10 matches kcick off at 4.30.  There will be reporters at all 10 games throughout the show.

The Sound of Sunday Last Day of the Premier League, Sunday 28 May 4.30 – 7pm

British Swimming legend Duncan Goodhew will be a special guest on this week’s show.

Duncan will be appearing on the show to talk about Swimathon, the world’s biggest swimming fundraising event.

Swimathon takes place around the UK later this month and wil be looking to raise millions of pounds for charity once again at swimming pools all over the country.

Hear Duncan Goodhew on The Sound of Sunday this Sunday (7 May) from 1.30.

22 February 2013 was a memorable afternon.  It was the day of the final public tour of perhaps the most iconic and recognisable TV studios building in the world.

Home to thousands of hours of TV over more than 60 years, BBC Television Centre in West London was destined to close and be turned into a hotel and apartments.  I had booked myself on what was at the time the final public tour of the building, although they did add an extra tour afterwards due to demand!

I had been on one tour previously during which the rule was strictly no photography or recording, but I took along my microphone anyway on the chance that I might be able to grab an interview with someone.  You never knew who you might bump in to at this famous building.

When I got there, the first person I met was actually someone I knew.  Martin Parsons was the tour guide for the final CBBC tour of the building.  Martin was a former member of HRB!

I joined up with the tour that I had booked on where I found that someone had got permission to film it and two media study students had got permission to record it.  The rule about photography seemed to have been well and truly dropped that afternoon.  The tour guides Adrian Lacey and Mark Hemmings took us nto the Media Centre (newsroom) to start off with, and then on to the viewing gallery of TC3 where an edition of Gory Games was being filmed.

We went to TC5 where some of the Match of the Day/BBC Sport set were remaining and then to the scenery store where the Blue Peter set was stil in storage.  We saw a dressing room and also took part in a quiz.  I did rather well at knowing my TV themes!  We stopped at the Stage Door entrance where so many stars had entered the building including Richard Briars who had died just that week.  Filming had just wrapped for the 50th anniversary Doctor Who documdrama so some parts of the building were looking like they had done 50 years before.

We ended up back at the audience reception area where no one seemed to want to leave and Adrian, Mark, Martin and others talked to me and the media study students.

I subsequently used that audio in a programme that was broadcast a month or so later when the building itself closed and it was shortlisted at the National Hospital Radio Awards 2014.

10 years on and the building has been reopened for some time, after large parts of it were demolished and rebuilt as the hotel and the dougnut refurbished as apartments.  Studios 1, 2 and 3 are once again working studios looked after by BBC Studioworks but mostly used these days by ITV.  What was once the media centre is now the offices to BBC Studios and even the doughnut is used for programmes once again with the recent series of Top Gear using it as the backdrop to the show.

At a time when there is a shortage of studio space around London, many still question the wisdom of selling off the building, but at least part of it is still in use as TV studios, and it does look smarter than it did when it closed.  It had been run down for many years before the closure, so the redevelopment has breathed some life back into the site, which is also now accessible for the public to walk around the outside areas of the building

The video recorded by Cliff Harris can be seen below:

and the award nominated programme recorded that afternoon can be heard below:

Once again The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show will kick off Christmas on HRB.

The show has provided the start of the Christmas schedules since the mid-1990s with its mix of fast moving festive fun, special guests, competitions and crackers.

The cast of the Corn Exchange panto in Newbury will be talking about Jack and the Beanstalk and Rachel Grundy from Cinderella at The Anvil will talk about Basingstoke’s panto.

Julie Jones will talk about the hospital staff panto and we’ll be joined by Vernon Pearce from Postcard from Spain and Richard Smith will talk about Christmas on The A to Z of Pop and some of the best bits of The Big Broadcast from the last 10 years.

And in the first of several Christmas Cracker Dashes this year, Cherry Blossom Manor in Bramley will be pulling the crackers and telling the jokes and requesting some great Christmas music.

Neil Ogden’s Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show Sunday 11 December 2022 1pm

Superman 46-06-07 (1307) Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine – Pt 14

Superman 46-06-06 (1306) Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine – Pt 13

The Sound of Sunday Big Christmas Show is back for 2022 with 4 hours of live festve fun and features.

The show has been running in some form every Christmas since the mid 1990s and has gradually grown over the years.  We haven’t been able to do everything we used to over the last couple of years but we have done some things slightly differently to keep the show going with special guests, competitions and of course requests and this year is no different.

We will be live from 1pm on Sunday 11 December with guests from the local pantos and shows including The Anvil and the hospital panto.  Richard Smith will join us to talk about the first Big Broadcast-less year for quite a while plus The A to Z of Pop Christmas offerings and we will send a member of staff and their family to The Anvil to see Cinderella courtesy of our annual competition.

Plus the residents of Cherry Blossom Manor will join us for The Great Christmas Cracker Dash.  There will be requests in Music on Demand and other opportunities to win throughout the afternoon.

The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show 2022

Sunday 11 December 2022 from 1pm.

Superman 46-06-05 (1305) Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine – Pt 12

Superman 46-06-04 (1304) Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine – Pt 11

Superman 46-06-03 (1303) Al Vincent’s Corrupt Political Machine – Pt 10