For those of you who entered our 50th birthday competition – or those who are just interested – here are the answers to the first eight questions. If you entered the competition and are lucky enough to be one of our winners, then we’ll be in touch!
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The first in a series of posts to celebrate Radio Warneford’s half-century of broadcasting. Find out more about our first real studio, “The Hut”, which opened in 1978 and became our home for fifteen years.
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Radio Warneford is on the move! We’ve left our home of 24 years and we are about to embark on fitting out our brand new studios in another part of the Warwick Hospital site!
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The most recent edition of Radio Warneford’s patient magazine is still available, packed full of archive photographs and newspaper reports charting Radio Warneford’s history since its first broadcast at the Warneford Hospital in 1973.
Find out moreRadio Warneford extended it’s service to five nights a week.
Find out moreA schedule entitled “Wonderful Radio Warneford” was published and ran for three months. It was given to all the patients. Here’s an extract from it: MONDAYS 7.00pm Terry Brown Requests 7.45pm Hancock’s Half Hour 8.15pm Mr Peggotty Requests 9.00pm Judge Jeffreys Sweet Sounds FRIDAYS 7.00pm Judge Jeffreys Soul Music 8.00pm Terry Brown Requests 9.00pm Mr Peggotty Big Band Sounds TUESDAYS 7.00pm Terry Brown Revived 45s 7.45pm Mr Peggotty at the Theatre
Find out moreJohn Flaherty and Geoff Nicholls ran Peggottys Disco together and this formed the basis of the studio. It began in a tiny basement room in the hospital and the Red Cross helped out by visiting patients and collecting requests. Programmes could be heard on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 7pm and 10pm.
Find out moreMiss Wells, the Warneford Hospital Secretary, gave Terry Brown, the hospital’s Chief Engineer, and John Flaherty permission to start Radio Warneford in December, to provide entertainment for patients over Christmas.
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