In this issue ... 03 Welcome to Whipps Cross Radio

05 How to Listen to Whipps Cross Hospital Radio

07 Steam Radio 7

08 Whipps Cross Hospital Radio Programme Schedule

10 Meet Idris Elba 10 12 12 The Day the Music Died

14 Copped Hall – A Local Downton Abbey

16 The Man Who Really Started the NHS

18 WXHR ... The Story So Far

21 Keep Smiling

22 Feeling No Pain?

25 Mobile Throne 27 Aikido – Sport for All 14 16 29 Spot the Logo

30 Movie Quiz

31 The Disney Quiz 21 32 Spot the ad and quiz answers 18

HOW TO CONTACT WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL RADIO Whipps Cross Road, Leytonstone, London, E11 1NR Studio phone (for requests): 020 8535 6997 *800 from a Hospedia bedside unit (FREE) website: www.wxhr.org.uk

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Donations via our website 1 2 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Welcome

Radio started in Britain almost 100 years ago in 1922 when the British Broadcasting Company fired up a small, rather lethal-looking transmitter made from metal, glass and wood. In 1969 the radio service here at Whipps Cross began – 50 years ago. In marking our anniversary some things have changed dramatically and some things are just the same. The technology has certainly changed – not a lot of wood in your We carry no commercial adverts but smartphone or radio set these days we do broadcast information and valves are a novelty from messages highlighting healthcare yesteryear (see page 7). From just one issues or support groups; we are very broadcasting station in 1922, there much a community station. But that are now over 300 official UK stations does mean making our financial ends and countless internet channels meet in other ways and this magazine available; Whipps Cross Radio is on helps enormously. the internet, of course, at Music, as in those far-off days last www.wxhr.org.uk century, is still a major component of In Britain, 90% of the population radio programmes. Back then it was tune into a station at least once a only classical music but these days it week. So despite all the TV channels, is every style of music you can think of streaming services and personal including that 'dangerous' jazz that music players, radio is holding its own, was forbidden to early broadcasters. and some! We are very proud to have Entertainment, information and even been on air for almost half the time education are still at the heart of what that radio has even existed and I am radio does and certainly those first convinced the reason we are still here two are at the heart of Whipps Cross is that we can provide a service Radio. tailored to our audience and, unlike Join us and be a part of history. other stations, we actually meet our Phil Hughes listeners and talk to them. Editor

Donations via our website 3 Walthamstow and Chingford Almshouse Charity MONOUX HALL, CHURCH END, LONDON E17 9RL Charity Registration Number 1116355 SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION We welcome applications from local residents requiring sheltered accommodation to rent. The charity has 62 one bedroom flats with a mix of one or two person properties. The majority of the apartments are suitable for people with disabilities/ mobility problems and three are fully wheelchair accessible. An emergency call system is provided in each flat and staff are on hand to provide support with housing and other matters, such as help with obtaining a care package, but staff do not provide personal care themselves, such as help with washing and dressing. The apartments are well equipped with oven, hob, fridge freezer, have carpet and vinyl flooring and laundry facilities are provided. The Charity is required to give priority to applicants who are living in Walthamstow or Chingford, or who have lived in these areas in the past, however, we can consider applicants with no such connection where there are special circumstances, such as the need to move nearer to family. Squires Almshouses, E17 The Ridgers, E4 Monoux Almshouses, E17

Collard Court, E17 Colby Lodge, E17 For more information and to obtain an application form please visit the charity’s website www.wcac.org.uk or phone the office on 020 8520 0295 or email [email protected]

4 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible HOW TO LISTEN TO WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL RADIO All Day – Every Day

The Hospedia bedside entertainment screen has a telephone and tv and radio channels. You will need to register with the Hospedia operator via the green button on the handset to use any facilities, but it is free to register. are available from staff and the screens also have small speakers. The television and telephone are paid for using a Hospedia Freedom Card from dispensers in the corridors. Their call centre is on 0845 4141234. But RADIO CHANNELS ARE ALWAYS FREE and on Radio Channel 1 you will find Whipps Cross Hospital Radio, your own 24-hour community ‘listen live’ button is top left. If you have radio station. one of the new ‘smart speakers’ at You can ring for your favourite home, like a Google, Sonos or Amazon record in our next request show device, simply say ‘play Whipps Cross (between 8pm and 9pm most Hospital Radio’ and it will do the rest. evenings). Simply dial *800 and your On a smartphone, either via the data call will be free. network or via wi-fi, you can find us on The station is also available on the Tunein Radio app or go direct to our speakers in waiting areas and corridors website on an iPhone. On an Android and on the internet on any computer so smartphone go to your friends and family can listen too. Go www.wxhr.org.uk/player where you can to our website www.wxhr.org.uk and the hear our programmes.

Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 5 6 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Steam Radio

It’s 1965 in the kitchen of our semi- wooden-cased models would look and detached house in Woodford Green. It’s sound even in a modern house. a Sunday lunchtime in a bitterly cold There is actually a thriving market for January and on the radio is the Light vintage radios at auctions, swapmeets Programme’s Round The Horne – and on eBay and there is a community Rambling Syd Rumpo, Julian and Sandy of collectors and repairers. The sets are and the disreputable, eccentric a joy to touch and tune but you have to J.Peasmold Gruntfuttock. Also on the wait for them to warm-up. Turn on and radio is Sylvester, our cat. Sylvester is stand back for 30 seconds and then the sitting on top of the radio’s case mellow sound of the stations come relishing the nicely warm Bakelite in an fading-in through the static. There are otherwise icy house. still many places across Europe The set is a classic Bush valve on medium wave although with two wavebands, medium and long Luxembourg, Hilversum and Cologne wave; VHF (FM) has not yet reached our have long vanished into the ether. house and is barely available around the Spare parts and valves are still country. The radio hums gently and available and, with specialist knowledge, smells of burning dust. Sylvester purrs most sets can be serviced and brought gently and smells of... well hot cat really. back to good health. Cases can be That radio is the focus of the family repaired and re-polished. But a word of lunch; the cat is ignored. warning – do not take the back off, it Looking back it was a time when can be lethal! If you are interested, there transistors were just on the horizon and is a small museum of vintage wireless the old valve radios would soon be and television sets in Dulwich and the smashed-up and dumped to make way British Vintage Wireless Society runs a for portable, battery-operated, plastic website full of information. wonders. If only we had known how What a joy to twiddle the knobs of an collectable the hand-made valve sets old wireless set. If only some of those old would become and how wonderful the programmes were still around too.

Donations via our website 7 WXHR Programme Schedule WXHR Programme Schedule

Weekday Programme Schedule Weekend Programme Schedule 6.00am Mike Jones with the Breakfast Show – including Whipps Cross Country, Saturday The Sixties Flashback Hour at 9.00am and a mid-morning short story at 6.00am Jon Emmins – including Jon’s Quiz, number 1’s from the 90’s and Double around 10.30am Decade 70’s and 80’s

12noon Gennie Pearson at lunchtime with the Comedy Hour at 1.00pm and a 12noon John Doyle presents Saturday sport and music. During the season a full Tamla Motown 3-after-3 programme of football and sports coverage featuring commentary on Leyton Orient and West Ham matches 4.00pm Andrew Fuller with Afternoon Delight – featuring an hour of Whipps Cross Love Songs at 5.00pm 6.00pm Pete Dowsett – including at 7.00pm Jukebox Saturday Night with hits from the 50’s and early 60’s 8.00pm MONDAY: Whipps Cross Focus – local news and features TUESDAY: Tuesday At 8 – what’s on, music from Beyond Britain and 10.00pm John Costello with Late Night Classics and classic poems the Cheeseboard WEDNESDAY: Whipps Cross Focus – local news, sport, interviews and 3.00am Early Morning Music including the chillout feature features THURSDAY: Dusty Discs – golden oldies from the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s with Sunday Tony Jenkins 6.00am Sunday Morning with Ian Beach and between 9am and 11am two hours FRIDAY: Whipps Cross Focus – local news, sport and features of Whipps Cross Country

9.00pm Down Your Ward – requests from around the wards 12noon Pauline Martindale invites you to Sunday Company

10.00pm The Late Show – easy listening music with Petula Andre 2.00pm At The Cross – Tony Sargent with an hour of Christian music and reflection

3.00pm Sunday Classics – a selection of classy, popular classical music with 11.00pm John Costello with Late Night Classics and classic poems Andrew Fuller

3.00am Early Morning Music including the chillout feature 4.00pm Showtime – Terry Warren with music from the shows, TV and films

5.00pm Sunday Sport Special – a round-up of local and national news and results with Paul Hilder

6.00pm The Whipps Cross Chart Show. Ian Parker counts down the month’s most requested records Mike Jones Gennie Pearson Andrew Fuller Tony Jenkins Petula Andre John Costello 7.00pm The Ward Party – an hour of requests with Mal Wayne

8.00pm Down Your Ward – Phil Hughes with live conversation and requests from around the wards

10.00pm John Costello with Late Night Classics and classic poems

Jon Emmins John Doyle Ian Beach Terry Warren Ian Parker Phil Hughes 3.00am Early Morning Music including the chillout feature

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 8 9 IDRIS ELBA – his hand to directing with his film Yardie and, at the time of writing, maybe 007 Local DJ Makes it to L.A. and Back lies in wait. On the side he has a musical career acting career with a part in TV’s releasing and producing African Crimewatch although he still had to flavoured records and videos; so far an make up his money working as a tyre album and four EPs in his own name. He fitter, in advertising sales and on the continues to spin records for music nightshift at Ford’s Dagenham plant events at Glastonbury, Stratford Park, alongside his father, Winston. clubs and in Ibiza and he even opened a Roles in and various TV series concert for Madonna in . If you followed before a move to New York for ask nicely he may get out the decks for Law and Order and his big break The your wedding party, Harry and Meghan Wire, playing the drug lord Russell did in 2018. ‘Stringer’ Bell. Not wanting to be a As part of a TV mini-series Idris Elba: regular ‘gangster’ he shifted to L.A. and No Limits, he shattered the 88-year-old was in the U.S. version of The Office land speed record for the Pendine Sands (titled The New Boss over there). Then it in Wales. Known as the ‘Flying Mile’, DJ Idris at Glastonbury was back to London in 2009 and he hit Idris hit 180mph in a Bentley Continental the jackpot in his baggy tweed overcoat Idris is now definitely an ‘A-lister’ you GT and was thrilled to pass Malcolm and, bizarrely, he also won the title of with the first series of Luther, nicknamed Campbell’s long-standing place in know him from playing big, and ‘his satanic majesty’. Almost overnight Rear of the Year. You thought that was sometimes in the end, honest, tough history. only for the ladies! But his crowning he was a household name. Physically as tough as his brilliant but characters on TV. He is also a local He picked up films such as Legacy, achievement, especially for his mum, was celebrity, born in 1972 just three miles self-destructive John Luther character, he his award of an OBE in 2016 for services The Losers, Takers, Thor, Pacific Rim, No is also a trained and trophy-winning from Whipps Cross in Forest Gate Good Deed and Finding Nemo and was to drama. Hospital, Hackney, which incidentally kickboxer – no messing with Idris! But his Now very much back as a Londoner the voice of the tiger, Shere Khan, in the private life has not been quite so closed in 1985 and is now housing. remake of The Jungle Book. But by far and living in Hackney he was one of 50 He was actually born Idrissa Elba but successful having been married twice celebrities named by Time Out magazine his biggest film role came in 2012 as with two children, one of whom turned shortened his name at school and he Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk for shaping the city’s cultural landscape could well have joined us here at Whipps out not to be his own. and making London ‘awesome’, to Freedom. To get an authentic feel he In 2015 he was named one of GQ Cross Radio because as a lad his first spent a night locked in a cell on Robben alongside the mayor, Ian McKellen and paid work was running a mobile disco magazine’s 50 best-dressed British men – comedian Nish Kumar. Island – Mandela served 27 years in a he does look very snappy in a smart suit under the name DJ Big Driss – he is 6ft similar cell. Most recently he has turned His life is frantic, though he found time 3in after all. to marry for the third time in 2019, in While still studying, he won his first Morocco. When not making movies or walk-on acting part which he spotted in Luther, he is designing clothes, DJ-ing, The Stage – the employment bible for producing his own music or travelling to budding actors. So then having left make documentaries about his school in Canning Town, he abandoned adventures kickboxing in Thailand or car the disco glitter ball and flashing lights racing in Ireland. and, with a grant from the Prince’s Trust, But never mind John Luther, he should joined the National Youth Music Theatre have stuck with us at Whipps Cross (Jude Law, Sheridan Smith, Lily James Radio. Maybe we could still offer him a and Matt Lucas all trained with the slot in the schedule: Breakfast with Big NYMT). He launched himself into an Idris ‘serves time’ on Robben Island Idris, OBE with his mother Eve Driss on WXHR!

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 10 11 Don McLean’s song, American Pie, tells of 1950’s schoolboy innocence and the day Buddy Holly died – 3rd February 1959. It was a personal tragedy for the 12-year-old McLean: Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and I can't remember if I cried, when I read about Ritchie Valens all killed in the aircraft his widowed bride crash Something touched me deep Just 18 months after his first success inside, the day the music died. Holly was on his Winter Dance Party Buddy Holly still holds a place. tour of the Midwest trying to spread his in our musical memories even music beyond Texas and to make some now, 60 years on. The requests money, when the Beechcraft Bonanza regularly come in for Peggy Sue, True Love light aircraft crashed in a snowstorm Buddy Holly at the London Palladium Ways, It’s Raining In My Heart and many shortly after take-off near Clear Lake, Buddy Holly song catalogue for the UK others of the 24 chart hits he had in the UK. Iowa. The disaster killed all on board (Maria Elena retains it in the USA). All of them bar four were posthumous. including Ritchie Valens and the ‘great He played the London Palladium in He was a prolific recording artist and his big guy’, the Big Bopper. Every year 1957 (Elvis never played in the UK) as record label was able to mine unreleased tracks for ten years after his death. there is an anniversary memorial he tried to bring his music to an So how is it that a musician who didn’t exude the raw sex appeal of Elvis, who service there amid the usual snow and international audience. The Palladium died before pop music really hit its peak and, to be fair, did look a little square, has temperatures of -9F. audience was rather muted but nobody such a powerful legacy? Buddy was one of the most influential realised then how his influence would They are of course great songs and, when not deliberately stuttering, he had a and innovative pioneers of the new rock spiral or that he was destined to be the silky voice to frame them, but it is probably the whole tragedy of the star who ’n’ roll and soon after his romantic first rock ’n’ roll star to wear glasses. helped define early rock ’n’ roll that binds us to his music. marriage he had already progressed Nowadays, here in Yorkshire, British Had he lived would he still be making records today? He co-wrote most of his onto love songs and orchestral themes. super fans Peter Bradley and his son songs, unlike Elvis, so would he still be writing new ones? He inspired many future musicians run the Buddy Holly Educational His grave in his home city of Lubbock in the Texas Panhandle has a simple including Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Ray Foundation to honour Buddy’s legacy inscription which in no way reflects his achievements: ‘In loving memory of our own Davies, Eric Clapton and a 15-year-old and extend his songs to new Buddy Holley’. It uses the original spelling of his family surname but not his given Paul McCartney who later bought the generations. first name ‘Charles’. It was his first record label, Decca, which made the accidental He was a true musical innovator spelling mistake on his recording contract in January 1956, and Holly stuck. and a glittering talent still His wife, Maria Elena, was only married to Buddy for six months but nevertheless revered today, 60 years on, has inherited his music, the rights to his iconic image and has approval of any new and certainly his songs will films or stage shows. Theirs was a whirlwind romance; Buddy asked her to marry Not Fade Away at Whipps him on their first date and two months later they were joined. She says he was a Cross - as John Wayne said young man in a hurry because he had a premonition of how little time he had. ‘That’ll Be The Day’.

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 12 13 Copped Hall – A Local Downton Abbey

Copped Hall from the outside Copped Hall pond and gardens The new floor being laid in the state hall The stables The cellars dressed as a Victorian from oak trees in the grounds sewer for a TV shoot There are DIY projects … and then Sunday, May 5th 1917 all but there are DIY projects. This one destroyed the main house, the roof, and historic sight. But for the house Sunday of each month when visitors must take the biscuit or maybe that most rooms, staircases and all the itself collapse or demolition beckoned. can enjoy the grounds and restored should be the biscuit on the silver wooden floors. Although electric However, in 1992 the Corporation of parts of the house as well as open salver. lighting was not in common use at London stepped in to prevent garden days and special events. The Copped Hall Estate lies in that time, it was said that a hairclip, developers swooping on the parkland You can see much more at Upshire, just off the main road dangerously used as a fuse, caused and bought 785 acres, leaving the rest http://www.coppedhalltrust.org.uk/ between Theydon Bois and Epping. the fire. Copped Hall’s position, as farmland. Three years later a and also find opening times and event Set back down the leafy Crown Hill construction and size gave rescuers charitable trust was established to try details. Lane, the imposing entrance gates little chance of saving it from the and restore the mansion and pleasure If you’d like to see one of this flames. open to reveal a Grade II Georgian gardens to their former glory. It was to country’s biggest and boldest DIY Ernest Wythes, the owner when the mansion with formal gardens, farms be a daunting undertaking for the projects, book up and enjoy a fire devastated the house and our real volunteers. and rolling parkland. fascinating visit. The site goes back to the 1300s but life Robert Crawley (Earl of Grantham) But brick by brick, slate by slate and the present building was constructed moved his marooned family to Wood plank by plank the building is slowly for the Conyers family in 1758 in a House, another building on the estate, being put back to its former grandeur, very grand style with stables, staff but he was never able to rebuild the painstakingly, accurately and quarters and pleasure gardens. It was mansion and it was left to disintegrate expensively. imposing, classy and expensive, but ill- into a crumbling shell at the mercy of Many volunteers contribute to the fated. the elements. restoration as well as specialist If you think of Downton Abbey with Over the decades the shell was contractors and every year progress is its aristocrats, the butler and raided and remaining features were measured. There is no end date chauffeur, gardeners and servants, stripped. Trees and even railings were although some parts will be left that was exactly the style of Copped ripped out and removed and the unrestored to give a feel of what was Hall in that same period setting as estate was eventually sold in 1952. originally under the fancy plasterwork. Downton. Copped Hall had an army of Although the new M25 was later Nor is there a clear calculation of what 31 gardeners and 27 house servants. routed through a corner of the estate, the whole project will cost. Tragically an electrical fire on the grounds were still an attractive There are guided tours on the third Copped Hall in winter

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 14 15 George Lansbury ... with King George V (a visitor to Whipps Cross War Hospital in 1917). The Man Who Really Started the NHS At that time the Royal Parks were just that and citizens had to get the king’s decent public housing, milk for permission to even walk in them. children, ante-natal clinics and, most Lansbury pushed to get that ancient significantly, free healthcare. bye-law relaxed and swimmers today Now more than 70 years old, the are able to freely enjoy the chilly NHS is always credited to Health waters of the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Minister Aneurin Bevan and the Health Park thanks to George. A plaque on Service Act of 1946, but its roots go the café there marks that victory. back way before then and to right After years as a labour politician, he here in east London. In 1908 George served a second term as Mayor of Lansbury was the first to suggest a Poplar in 1936 but in failing health he revolutionary medical service, free at died in 1940, eight years before the the point of delivery, for rich and poor granddaughter, the actress Dame actual birth of the NHS. His funeral alike. He led parliamentary campaigns Angela Lansbury (National Velvet, was at St Mary’s Bow with a and, although initially unsuccessful, his Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Death on cremation in Ilford. vision eventually won through. the Nile, Nanny McPhee and Murder The Lansbury family home at 39 He led the Labour Party for three She Wrote). Bow Road was destroyed by German years in the 1930s but was cast aside Many have said his heart ruled his bombs during the London Blitz of for his support of pacifism in the face head but he would undoubtedly have George Lansbury was a local 1940 but there is a small memorial of the Nazis’ rise to power. But his been so proud to see his vision of a politician – the ‘rebel’ Mayor of Poplar stone dedicated to Lansbury in front of fight for a fairer society and a public public health service fulfilled and not once imprisoned for challenging the current building, appropriately health service were always at his just for the citizens of east London. crippling rates rises in his borough. He named George Lansbury House. There elbow and stand testament to his Pictured below, l to r: East End poverty; George became an M.P. and eventually the is also a memorial to Lansbury in the genuine concern for the poor. Lansbury cutting the sod at Chapel House Estate, leader of the Labour Party. However, nearby Bow Church, where he had We can also thank him for opening 1920; Labour party politician; George and his wife his name is barely remembered now volunteered as a warden. Bessie; Lansbury helps London bus drivers up the London parks for all of us. He even though he spent his working life The family name lives on in George’s entertain children at Theydon Bois, 1935. led a campaign to improve public fighting for social reform, pensions, recreation facilities which brought him education, women’s rights, into conflict

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 16 17 Whipps Cross Hospital Radio ... The Story So Far The wooden shed 1969 Walthamstow Lions establish Whipps Cross Hospital Radio

Our first studio, a wooden shed

Home made equipment and enough winter draughts

1976 to make your cufflinks rattle! An early studio The Hospital Radio mobile disco was established as a fundraiser. The service was extended to Chingford Hospital Originally established 50 years ago We first went on air in 1969 from a and then Wanstead Hospital by the Walthamstow Lions, we are a converted garden shed next to the A line was connected to Leyton Orient FC and 1980 regular football commentary started self-supporting, registered charity restaurant. It really was an old, Football commentary broadcasting 24-hours a day, seven- wooden shed, about 6ft by 8ft with a Whipps Cross Hospital Radio became a charity in its own right, 1982 breaking links with the Lions Club days a week with distinctive leaky roof, some very dodgy, home- programmes for patients, out-patients, made equipment and, in winter, a Two professionally built studios came online under D block in 1991 the main hospital ex-patients and staff at one of the draught between your legs to make country’s largest general . Whipps Cross Hospital Radio wins Station of the Year at

your cufflinks rattle. Our Awards 1995 the National Hospital Broadcasting Awards. We know from feedback that our A lot has changed since then and We were successful again in 2013 community radio station is very much we have moved on from scratchy vinyl The first of two Restricted Service Licences were bought for a appreciated and we are proud to have records and cassettes, to CDs and 1998 one month period broadcasting on p with adverts and a 24 won numerous awards, including these days computer systems. What hour schedule ‘Station of the Year’ in 1995 and again has not changed much over the years

in 2013. Patientline (now Hospedia) arrived with bedside TV and Our current studio are the most requested records; you 2004 radio units The focus of what we do is to play still want to hear melodic, all-time relaxing music for patients and to visit favourites from Frank Sinatra, the wards for a chat, providing great Whitney Houston, Elvis, Queen, Bob Whipps Cross Hospital Radio celebrates 2009 40 years of broadcasting entertainment and company. Many Marley and now Ed Sheeran. Could people may only be with us for a few someone please choose records by days but if we can brighten those The Cure? 2019 We mark 50 years of entertaining and patient service days just a bit, our job is worthwhile. Currently we operate with 34 volunteers and being entirely self- computer or even on your smartphone the fun, the smiles will be infectious funding we are always grateful for by clicking on our website. and that is the only infection that is any donations. It costs £2,000 a year The station here at Whipps Cross welcome around the wards! to keep the station on air and the continues with support from Barts The first draughty studio has long easiest way to help us is through the NHS Trust and we hope we can gone but then so have cufflinks, but donate button on our website at maintain our crusade to entertain what remains 50 years on is our www.wxhr.org.uk. You can also listen patients and have some fun ourselves commitment to patients, healthcare to our programmes at home on a along the way. If we can involve you in and entertainment.

On Hospedia Channel 1, around the hospital and online at www.wxhr.org.uk Take us home with you and listen live at www.wxhr.org.uk 18 19 20 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Smiley Faces They say that you are never fully dressed without a smile and at Whipps Cross Radio we try to stick a smile on everything we do. We all routinely smile around 11 times a day – that adds up to over 4,000 a year and a quarter of a million grins in a lifetime. Although they are harder to come by when feeling under the weather, it is a fact that smiling and laughing release special substances in your body that can help your recovery and even lengthen your life. Each time you flash a smile, you throw a little feel-good party in your brain which releases chemicals that help fight stress and much more. Dopamine relaxes you and can lower your heart rate and blood pressure. Endorphins are a natural pain reliever, 100 per cent organic and without the side effects of chemical concoctions. Finally, a surge of serotonin, brought on by your grin, works as an anti-depressant and mood lifter. All good news and without a prescription! Scientists and spiritual teachers agree that the simple act of beaming can transform you and the people around you and that a smile is usually contagious. Flashing the gnashers can also make us appear more attractive, reliable and sincere. So promise yourself to be a positive, happy person and be sure to look people in the eye and show off your pearly whites. So, what then makes us smile most? One answer seems to be cake – maybe have a word with your visitors? Sunshine usually triggers a grin and looking back through old photos or even getting a compliment from a friend usually triggers a smirk. A baby’s smile is always contagious and finding a fiver down the back of the sofa may do the trick. Expert advice says that just like the five-a-day veggie guideline, seven-a-day smiles are also of real value to your well-being. Try the smile scale by adding up what makes you smile each day and see how you score. Now where is Shirley Bassey when you need her? ‘When you smile I can see you were born, born for me...’

Donations via our website 21 Feeling No Pain? my front teeth out. My husband What would feeling it. She only realises her arm is assumed that would be the end of the it be like never burning on the oven when she smells holiday, but I stood up and carried on.’ to feel any singed flesh. For her giving birth was a Doctors believe Jo is able to heal more pain? No need walk in the park. quickly than normal and her particular for an aspirin Jo is one of only a few hundred combination of genes also makes her a for a people in the world known to have a bit forgetful but much less anxious, ‘It's headache or rare genetic mutation called congenital called the happy and forgetful gene. I anaesthetic insensitivity to pain or CIP. It means simply don’t have adrenaline and I‘ve for an she not only feels no pain but also been annoying people all my life – now operation? never feels anxious, sad or afraid. She I've got an excuse.’ Some say a just thought she was incredibly happy So, Jo does not get physical pain or bit of pain is and healthy. emotional pain and does not good for you It wasn't until she was 65 that she experience sadness. Not only that, she but if you are realised she was different when can eat red-hot chillies without feeling doctors were amazed she needed no blinking! uncomfortable painkillers after an operation on her Could Jo's genes hold the key to right now, hands. They warned her she should helping others? The experts say it is read on. expect it to hurt afterwards but she possible that her condition could open In the case felt nothing. They checked her history the door for a new generation of of chronic and found she had never needed treatments and she is now the centre back pain or painkillers. of intense research by scientists keen the dentist no Dr Devjit Srivastava, Jo’s anaesthetist, not just to refine the pain-numbing pain would be sent her to pain geneticists at process but also to find out if the a blessing but University College London and after happy gene could be reproduced. there are very tests, they found she had gene Dr Srivastava sees great potential: good reasons mutations which meant that she could ‘After surgery half of patients why we never feel pain like other people. experience moderate pain, despite all experience it: Jo says: ‘Looking back, I realised I the advances in medication. The alarm bells hadn't used painkillers, but if you don't implications here are immense and and self- need them you don't question why. I point towards a discovery that could protection. It was just a happy soul. Before the offer post-surgical relief and also would be so operation we had a chat and I accelerate healing. We hope this could easy to step on a nail, cut your finger or guaranteed I wouldn't need them and I help the 330 million patients globally burn yourself on the cooker without was right. who undergo surgery each year.’ realising. ‘It would be nice for me to have a It seems that we could be worse off For one woman that is a reality. Jo warning when something's wrong. I without the body’s natural warning Cameron from Whitebridge near Loch didn't know my hip was gone until it system but if CIP is a way of eating Ness, has been bumping, bruising and was completely gone and I couldn't eye-watering chillies and making us burning herself in all manner of actually walk. On one camping holiday I happy – well, most of us can only hope mishaps since a child but without ever tripped headfirst into a rock, knocking to sign up soon!

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24 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Mobile Throne An average stay in hospital is fraught, you will agree, With things that cause embarrassment or dent our dignity. But one thing that you can be sure gets uncontested first, You’ve guessed it – it’s the bedpan, by miles the very worst.

When doctor’s orders tell us to bed we are confined, We can’t nip off and use the loo whenever we’ve a mind. So we must ask the nurses to deliver to our bed, Those strangely shaped receptacles of which we live in dread.

Made these days of plastic they are, or so I’ve found, A lot less prone to striking cold and amplifying sound. Unlike the metal version which sounded, without fail, Louder than a tin roof in hailstones and a gale.

But even so, ideally, when a penny must be spent, I’d rather it were private not an advertised event. Though nurses are so used to this, it always seems to me, They present them with a flourish like a manic maître’d.

I’m sure it’s not intended and they’re not just being mean, But only ‘Et voilà!’ from them is missing from the scene. They then swish back the curtain and it’s everybody’s cue, To go completely silent, or so it seems to you.

So we hate these foul containers, they take us back you see, To our days of potty training in our early infancy. Now back upon the plastic throne we sit there like a dummy, And from the past a voice floats back, ‘Do a little one for mummy.’

Steve Harvey Whipps Cross Hospital Radio 1996-2017

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26 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Aikido – Sport for All

Can you spell it? Can you pronounce it? victim whose physiotherapist warmly Could YOU do it? What is it? Well, the first welcomed his progress at the club. answer is easy; the second answer is to For youngsters from five years upwards say ‘eye-kee-doh’ and the third answer is there is a thriving junior section. definitely! So what is it? It is a great way to exercise, learn new Aikido is a world-wide, modern Japanese skills in self-defence and build awareness martial art with the philosophy to teach of your surroundings, self-discipline and skilful personal defence but without confidence and, of course, socialise. But injuring an opponent. The name translates rest assured it should never hurt – they as ‘the way of unifying with life energy’ want their members to come back next and has roots in the 1920s based on the week! techniques of turnings, throws and joint Sessions for the 15 or so members locks. It also embraces the mental and usually begin with gentle, stretching spiritual feeling of universal peace and exercises but, if you train regularly, you can reconciliation promoted by Morihei go on to earn your coloured ‘Kyu’ belts and Ueshiba. later the more senior ‘Dan’ belts. There are various styles but in class it You can watch a session to learn more involves respect for opponents, pre- and there is a website at arranged movements and importantly http://www.aikidochingford.co.uk or call relaxation, correct posture and flexibility – Steve on 07860 963691 for a friendly chat. all good attributes for general fitness. The Chingford Aikido Club started 30 years ago and meets at Woodford County High School on Thursday evenings and is open to all: young and old, 18 to 80, men and women. They also teach less able members and recently welcomed a stroke

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28 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Donations via our website 29 10. Who stars as title character Aquaman in the December 2018 film based on the DC Comics character of the same name? (a) Jason Momoa; (b) Henry Cavill; (c) Matt Damon. 11. Which British actress plays Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins Returns? 12. Which 2018 comedy sees high school drop out Teddy Walker, played by Kevin Hart, attempt to achieve his General Equivalency Diploma? 1. Which actor, perhaps best known 13. True or false? Creed II, the eighth for playing Clark Kent, teamed up with instalment of the Rocky franchise, sees Tom Cruise in 2018's Mission Adonis Creed take on Viktor Drago, the Impossible: Fallout? son of Ivan Drago? 2. Jason Statham plays rescuer Jonas 14. T'Challa of the fictional African Taylor in which 2018 sci-fi film? nation Wakanda is better known as 3. True or false? Dwayne 'The Rock' which Marvel super hero who hit the Johnson appeared in the 2018 sequel big screens in early 2018? to 1995's Jumanji? 15. Which American actor plays Scott 4. Which former US Office star Lang in 'Ant-Man and the Wasp'? (a) directed 'A Quiet Place' in 2018? (a) Paul Rudd; (b) Michael Douglas;, (c) Steve Carell; ( b) John Krasinski; (c) Bradley Cooper. Jenna Fischer. 16. 'Solo' is the latest release from 5. Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine which famous movie franchise? in which 2018 musical film? 17. In Avengers: Infinity War, the team 6. Which US dark comedy sees Jason join forces with which other superhero Bateman and Rachel McAdams' family group in an attempt to defeat Thanos? members kidnapped by burglars? 18. What is the name of the 2018 7. Tom Hardy plays investigative thriller that sees Liam Neeson play a journalist Eddie Brock in which Marvel former police officer caught up in Comics superhero film released in criminality on his journey home from October 2018? work? 8. Which 2018 film directed by Jon M 19. Alicia Vikander plays which lead Chu is based on a novel by Kevin character in the Tomb Raider movie? Kwan and features a majority Asian 20. What is the name of the virtual American cast? reality world in Ready Player One? (a) 9. Which 2018 horror film is a spin-off Blur; (b) Oasis; (c) Verve. from 2016's The Conjuring 2? answers page 32

30 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible From the lyrics, can you match it with the song and can you also name the Disney film the song comes from?

1. ‘... Like a bolt out of the blue’ 6. ‘As Dreamers do’ is from which song? (a) When You Wish Upon a Star (a) A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes (b) Wishes (b) When You Wish Upon a Star (c) Once Upon a Dream (c) Wishes (d) The Gospel Truth d) Under The Sea 7. ‘Where would we walk...’ 2. ‘You wake with the morning (a) Part of Your World sunlight...’ (b) Kiss the girl (a) When You Wish Upon a Star? (c) Friend Like Me (b) Someday My Prince Will Come (d) Fantasmic’ (c) Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes (d) Part of Your World 8. ‘Brushing up and looking down...’ 3. ‘to be happy forever I know...’ (a) A Whole New World (a) Cinderella, Cinderella (b) I Just Can't Wait To Be King (b) Kiss The Girl (c) I'll Make a Man Out Of You (c) In Harmony (d) The Second Star to the Right (d) Someday My Prince Will Come 9. ‘Shines in the night for you...’ 4. ‘hold your breath it gets better’ (a) When You Wish Upon a Star (a) A Star is Born (b) I'll Make a Man Out Of You (b) A Whole New World (c) The Second Star to the Right (c) Wishes (d) A Whole New World (d) Be Our Guest 10. Complete the lyric ‘How High 5. ‘Rising in the east’ Would the ______grow’? (a) Small World (a) Tree (b) Beauty and the Beast (b) Single Mole (c) Wishes (c) Sycamore (d) Part of Your World (d) Mountain answers p32 Spot the Ad Below are parts of various advertisements that appear somewhere in this magazine. Can you find them and name the advertiser?

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