3 03 A Message From Our Patron 05 Welcome To Stoke Mandeville Radio From The Chairman

07 A Word From Our Programme Controller

11 Local Radio Day 14 The History Of Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio

21 At Your Request

22 It’s Solid Gold

24 Dez Kay ... This Is Your Life

26 The Aylesbury Chart Show 11 28 How Did I Get Here? 5

31 Meet Steve Andrews

32 Behind The Scenes

34 Meet The Team

41 How To Listen To Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio 43 How You Can Join Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio

51 Can You Spot the Logo?

53 The Disney Lyric Quiz

54 The Film Quiz

55 The British TV Sitcom Quiz 21 24 56 Spot The Ad and Quiz Answers HOW TO CONTACT STOKE MANDEVILLE HOSPITAL RADIO Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Mandeville Road, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 8AL telephone 01296 331575 website www.smhr .co.uk For your requests, please call 01296 331575 or email [email protected]

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For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 1 2 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible A MESSAGE FROM OUR PATRON

Over forty years ago, I stepped into a radio studio for the first time; it was at HBS Glasgow, the Hospital Service for the West of Scotland. Not long after, I embarked upon my professional (or at least paid) career, which happily, still continues, and I still get the same feeling of excitement and anticipation when I enter a studio today. Over the years since, there have been repeated occasions when it’s been said that radio, and Hospital Radio in particular, is finished. When televisions started appearing in wards, Hospital TV would take over. The Internet was going to change everything. The advent of the Smartphone meant anyone in hospital could choose their own entertainment from a vast range worldwide. But still, despite all these developments, hospital radio remains an important part of patient care and welfare in the first part of the 21st century. Because it’s personal, there’s nothing quite the same or as good as hearing a friendly voice speaking directly to you in programmes tailored specifically for your situation. And for that reason, hospital radio continues to thrive, thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of its volunteers. And nowhere is doing a better job than Stoke Mandeville, which is why I am delighted to take on the role of Patron. I wish you many happy hours of listening and fun! Ken Bruce

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Firstly, I would like to say how Café taking part in Local Radio Day. pleased I and all our members are to The broadcast would not have been welcome Ken Bruce, from BBC Radio possible without a generous grant from 2, as our new Patron. Ken is a great Haddenham Beer Festival who funded a ambassador for Hospital Radio and new portable broadcast system. indeed started his broadcasting career Throughout the broadcast we had at the hospital broadcasting service in interviews with staff and patients at the Glasgow. hospital, some great music and a lot of Since our last magazine, yet again, fun as well. technology has moved along very We have to raise all our own funds to quickly and we have had to keep pace keep broadcasting and every penny we with that change to ensure we provide a get in goes into keeping our service first class service to the patients, running and improving what we can visitors and staff at Stoke Mandeville offer to our listeners – 4th December Hospital. 2018 marked our 40th birthday. Where In 2017, we were able to have our did 40 years go? radio service added directly into the I am immensely proud to be chairman Spinal Unit TV system meaning every of the radio station and the team of bedside had access on their screen to volunteers who give up their spare time Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio. To to provide the radio service at Stoke achieve this, it was a small team of our Mandeville Hospital. If you are members working closely with an interested in joining please get in outside contractor to make the service touch, there are many different roles work – since going live we have had a you can do and it is great fun. lot of positive feedback. Simon Daniels In 2018 we carried out a live nine- Chairman and Station Engineer hour outside broadcast from the Spinal Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio

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good idea. I also discovered that the role could easily be split into two and this is where Matthew Horton came in. He is responsible for loading all the new music onto the system, firstly check its suitability for use on hospital radio and for standing in for me when I’m unavailable. I make sure that we have presenters and producers allocated to our live shows and program all the automated hours that go to make up our 24/7 schedule. I also look after the production of jingles and promos and ensure our free downloadable SMHR app is kept up to date. The previously mentioned software upgrade required Matthew and I to have two days of live online training from the guys at Broadcast Audio who provide Just what does a Programme and maintain our Myriad system and Controller do? It’s a question I get give us tremendous support. It was then asked regularly and one that I asked six months of hard work and late nights when our previous Programme by both of us and Station Engineer Controller announced back in 2016 that Simon Daniels to get the new system he would have to give up the role due up and running, whilst still supporting to work pressures. the old one. The playout software is Panic set in as Matthew Nash had amazing and allows me to program been performing the role for SMHR for whatever type of music we want, many years and to be honest, none of whenever we want it. us knew exactly what he did, other than it was vital to keeping us on air. I was about to find out – the hard way! As often happens, I was the slowest in taking a step backwards when volunteers were called for and found myself in a new position – one that I knew nothing about. For added interest, this all coincided with us having to upgrade to a new version of our Myriad playout software, which meant that our previous PC was only able to give me generic instructions on what the job entailed but, thanks to his experience and professionalism, I had a pretty Our Myriad Playout Software. good model to follow. Another question I’m often asked is I soon realised that resilience was how do we choose which songs we very important and that having play. We are in the very enviable someone else who was capable of situation in that we do not have any standing in, for whatever reason, was a playlists so we can play pretty much

For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 7 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support 8 this publication would not have been possible bulletins – just a two minute news bulletin from Sky News at the top of each hour during our live broadcasts. Some of our shows are now kindly sponsored by local companies but that just means a mention at the start of each hour of the programme in question. This is vital to the ability of SMHR to continue broadcasting to the patients and staff as we receive no funding from the NHS and it costs some £6,000 per year, all of which has to be raised by our small group of volunteers in addition to keeping the radio station on air 24/7. If your company would like to become one of our sponsors, please contact us at [email protected] Our aim is to entertain and inform and as such we bring you interviews from both around the hospital and the local community, updates on what’s going on Lucy Mair performs a live set for the and we also like to support local Monday Night Request Show musicians with regular live sets on a anything that is suitable. We have a Monday evening from our studios. huge music library consisting of vinyl, We get out around the hospital as CD and digital formats to dip into and much as we can and a new mobile it’s always growing with new songs studio will now enable us to do that added every couple of weeks. more often, together with our daily visits Presenters of our specialist music genre to the wards to collect requests. shows also bring in their own CDs to The hospital is a big place so if you add to the mix. don’t catch us there are a number of SMHR has an extremely wide ways to contact us: demographic of listeners so we need to • Call 01296 331575 and leave a try to please as many people as message if you get no answer possible for as much of the time as we • Dial 6094 on the internal phone can. To do this, we base our musical system output loosely on the BBC Radio 2 model. However, we are always open to • Text 60777, starting your message suggestions and, of course, our with SMHR (texts are charged at your Request Shows, which are broadcast standard message rate) weekdays 8pm-10pm, give you the • Email [email protected] chance to choose the music. Thank you for taking time to read our Whether it’s the request shows, chart, magazine and hopefully you’ll enjoy magazine, jazz, gospel, blues, country, listening to our programmes on big band, classical, easy listening and 1575AM, on line at www.smhr.co.uk or various popular music programmes or via our free downloadable SMHR app our non-stop music mix, I’m sure there on your phone or tablet and they’ll make is something for everyone – 24 hours a your stay here at the hospital a little day, 365 days a year. easier. Our listeners also appreciate the fact Mike Oxlade that there are no adverts and no travel Programme Controller

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Friday, 25th May 2018

Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio took also had a very impressive cake stall to part in Local Radio Day on Friday, May raise funds for the outdoor space at the 25th 2018. café. We decided to take the radio station From 9am through to 6pm we out on the road for the day and we broadcast music, news and interviews planned a nine-hour broadcast to come with staff and patients at the hospital from the Spinal Unit RVS Café. This is getting in on the live broadcast. something that involved a lot of work We were visited by many clinical and before hand on the technical side of non-clinical staff plus the interim CEO things to establish a link from there back for the Trust, Neil Macdonald, who to our studio complex. himself was interviewed by Steve Wyatt We also needed to update our about his role with the Trust and the portable location equipment and we challenges he must deal with. approached the Haddenham Beer Everyone found all the interviews a Festival for a grant and we were fascinating insight into the workings of awarded £2000.00 to purchase new the hospital. equipment. While we had a team from SMHR in The day was organised by hospital the café, we also needed to have the radio members Matthew Horton and studio crewed and this was led by Mike Steve Wyatt. Matthew working with our Oxlade, our Programme Controller. station engineer Simon Daniels on all With an outside broadcast, you need the technical aspects and operating the to have a back-up plan if the live link equipment. Steve liaising with the goes down – thankfully in the nine hours Trust’s Communications team to line up we only lost the link for a few minutes. interviews with staff and patients at the Mike said ‘It was a fantastic hospital and then throughout the day achievement by the hospital radio team broadcasting live. to pull off a live nine hour outside We had lots of members of the radio broadcast and it was another station come along during the day all of opportunity to get closer to our listeners whom helped and got behind the in the hospital and showcase the work microphone to broadcast. we do’. The managers and volunteers from Everyone at the radio station is the RVS Café were hugely supportive of looking forward to doing more outside the day and throughout they kept us broadcasts now we have the new topped up with drinks and treats, they equipment.

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1978 1988 1998 2008 2018 Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio was At this time we were only broadcasting 'born' at 7.30pm on Monday, 4th for three evenings a week. During the December 1978 after more than a year next few years our hours of of planning and fundraising by a team of broadcasting (and our record library) dedicated people who thought that increased as we continued entertaining Stoke Mandeville Hospital should have the patients and raising more funds. its very own radio station. Other big fundraising events at the time The first voice to be heard was included a 50 hour sponsored presenter Geoff Tyrell who started the programme in 1980 by Martin Kinch and station off with an old TV jingle called Shane Carlson with special guests 'Let us be the one you turn to' which including Labi Siffre, Roy Wood and Tim was followed by the Les Reed Rice. instrumental ‘Man of Mystery’. In 1997, Stoke Mandeville Hospital The very first request to be played was Radio was one of two hospital radio for Colin on the burns ward who asked stations to be awarded a temporary us to play 'Sir Duke' by Stevie Wonder. experimental AM licence by Ofcom (the The request show was presented by the other station was Radio Tyneside in programme controller at the time Dave Newcastle) and as a result of the Ralph. Later in the evening, Alan success of that experiment we, and Brunham presented the very first Chart many other hospital radio stations are Show on the station and Number One at able to broadcast permanently on AM the time was Rod Stewart's 'Do You (or as some people still like to call it, Think I'm Sexy?'. Medium Wave). The rest of the team included Peter At 2pm on Monday, 26th January Royal, Chairman; Jenny Royal, 1998, DJ Simon Bates came to the Secretary; Chris Payne, Chief Engineer; station to help launch our new AM Mary Payne, Fundraiser and our service on 1575 kHz with an opening President was Freda Roberts. speech and a visit to some of the wards. He told TV and newspaper reporters ‘The radio station is part of the community and this is long overdue’. On the same day we started broadcasting 24 hours a day with a mixture of live programmes and an automated sustaining service using the Myriad PC playout software. In 2002 we celebrated 50 years of number ones by playing every number one hit; a lot of those records were sponsored either by patients and staff of The original studio being put together in 1978 the hospital, local companies or One of the first fundraising events was members of the station and their family a 100 hour sponsored drumming and friends. We also held a phone in marathon and there were donations auction for celebrity memorabilia which from the likes of Aylesbury Round Table, included a gold disc of The Pet Shop The Harding Trust, Carreras Rothmans Boys album 'Please', a silver disc of the Ltd and pupils from Aylesbury High 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack and School. signed photos from the likes of Kylie

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1978 1988 1998 2008 2018 On Tuesday, 12th June 2007, the computers were started back up and the sound of Stoke Mandeville Records and CDs all boxed Hospital Studio all ready for our new 24 hours a day up and ready for the move Radio was AM service once again broadcasting to the hospital Minogue, Tom Jones and Chris Eubank. complex. With a few more days spent Many local companies also donated getting the studio ready for live items to auction off. broadcasting, it was at 6pm on Monday, January 2004 saw the launch of our 18th June that Martin Kinch presented new website www.smhr.co.uk where Solid Gold, the first live programme you will find lots of information about the from the new studio. This was followed station and our programme schedule. If by the first request show at 8pm you would like a request played for a presented by Matthew Nash. patient or a member of staff you can do On 4th December 2008, Stoke so ‘on line’ by going to the contact page. Mandeville Hospital Radio celebrated In 2006 the Hospital Trust informed us the fact we had been broadcasting to that we would soon have to move out of the Hospital for thirty years. Current the building our studio was based in, members of the station, as well as some due to the redevelopment of the hospital former and founder members, got which meant our studios, along with together for a chat and a bite to eat. other buildings in the old part of the Also present was the President of the Hospital, would have to be demolished. Hospital Broadcasting Association, June We managed to continue live Snowden, who presented some broadcasting until 18th March 2007. As members with long service awards. we started to dismantle the studios, and Members of the Hospital Trust were with bulldozers getting nearer every day, there, as well as Voluntary Services our computer carried on broadcasting Manager, Helen Wareham. Presenters non-stop music until we had to pull the Faye and Mark Grantham presented a plug at 10pm on Thursday, 22nd March special request show during the evening 2007. After just over 28 years of and interviewed some of our guests broadcasting from that building, it was including June Snowden, Graham Ellis, time to move on. Chairman of the Bucks Trust, Our members then had the mammoth Ian Garlington, Director of Facilities and task of moving equipment, records and Estates and former SMHR Chairmen CDs to another part of the hospital Chris Long and Terry Meades. where our engineer had the task of Again in 2008 we were very pleased to building us a new studio. Aerials and find out from the Hospital Trust that in transmitters had to be erected and the 2009, we would be moving to an miles of cables had to be re-laid to our exciting new on-site location. The new temporary studio in a disused ward. premises would provide the vital extra

For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 15 space required to enable us to upgrade At 9am on Friday, May 28th 2010 our facilities to include a second live automated test broadcasts started from studio. These new facilities would the new studio and on 4th October, live enable us to offer an even better service programmes started again with Martin to the patients and staff at Stoke Kinch at 6pm, followed by the first Mandeville Hospital by way of more request show from the new studios request shows and other programmes presented by Jack Andrews. promoting patient and listener On Tuesday, 23rd November 2010, involvement. Ken Bruce from BBC Radio 2, officially On 14th February 2009 at 9am, the opened our new studios. Ken spoke last programme to be broadcast from about how he started in hospital radio our temporary studio in Ward 4X was and how much the patients and staff the Aylesbury Chart Show presented by appreciate the work the voluntary Mark Withey. We then had to start members do. Hospital staff and guests packing up once again ready for from the many organisations and trust another move. funds that have supported our fund In May 2009, The Sun newspaper, raising also attended. Steve Andrews along with paint company Dulux, held a and Dez Kay presented a special competition for charities in the UK to request show which included interviews have somewhere of their choice painted with Ken and many of the evening’s and we were voted as one of the lucky guests. A few days later on 28th winners. The Hospital had given us November, we introduced another way some empty old rooms and the timing of for people to send in requests and winning this competition was just perfect. dedications. With thanks to Txtlocal, you can now text us on 60777. Please ensure you start the message with SMHR. Texts are charged at your normal message rate.

‘Spud’, the Dulux dog with some of the SMHR decorating team Special thanks to all the people who Steve Andrews and Dez Kay in the studio voted for us. SMHR Treasurer, Stella with Ken Bruce Withey, who entered us into the competition, said, ‘It has given a real On 11th July 2011, Stoke Mandeville boost to everyone working here.’ Our Hospital Radio started broadcasting on President, Freda Roberts, said, ‘We are line. Station Engineer, Simon Daniels, pleased we have now moved into our said, ‘With wifi and internet access new studios due to the redevelopment becoming widely available now in hospital, of the Hospital. It has involved a lot of we want to ensure we give patients every hard work and fundraising and I am possible means to listen to SMHR’. grateful to the Hospital Trust and the Live shows started at 6pm with Martin membership of the radio station for all Kinch presenting 'Solid Gold' and that that has been done’. was followed by The Monday Night

16 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk Request Show at 8pm with Jack to not only raise £12,000 but also to Andrews and the team playing your raise the profile of the station. The requests and dedications. marathon broadcast featured special The 8th October 2011 saw presenter guests, live music, plus members past Mark Withey present his 1000th edition and present. of The Aylesbury Chart Show. Mark has In March 2017, we updated our 24 been a member of the station since hour playout system to Myriad v4; this September 1988. Former heavyweight involved a lot of time and effort by boxing champion Frank Bruno, MBE Matthew Horton, Mike Oxlade and visited the studio and congratulated Simon Daniels. Mark on his achievement. Frank was In October 2017, with thanks to a also interviewed by Dez Kay and Stella Raspberry Pi (mini computer), a lot of Withey as well as going around the hard work and generous charitable Hospital to meet patients and staff. funding, patients can now listen to On 1st December 2013, Stoke SMHR at every bedside in the National Mandeville Hospital Radio celebrated 35 Spinal Injuries Centre (NSIC). A huge years of broadcasting to patients and staff thank you to SMHR member Matthew at the Hospital. To mark the occasion, Horton for all his development work and Martin Kinch with Mark and Stella Withey, coding of the Raspberry Pi. presented a special nine hour programme There have been lots of people that included requests, former and current involved or supporting us to get to this members of the station and special milestone, including Simon Daniels, guests including Spandau Ballet singer Aimee Portersmith, Stuart Coalwood, Tony Hadley who came in for a chat and Lee Jones, Nelson Garcia, Neil Dardis to read out some requests. and Ed Macfarlane – thank you.

Mark Withey, Martin Kinch, Tony Hadley, Stella Withey, Dez Kay and Tony’s daughter celebrate 35 years of SMHR 2015 saw the launch of our own App. We can now be heard on bedside units in the You can download it from the Google National Spinal Injuries Centre Play Store or iTunes Apple Store for In March 2018, Stoke Mandeville your phones and tablets. From the App Hospital Radio was pleased to you can listen to us, email us and announce that Perrys of Aylesbury browse our website for the latest news, would be our sponsorship partner for programme schedule and more. our online streaming service.* During the weekend of 24th/25th 25th May 2018 was 'Local Radio Day' September 2016, Programme Controller and SMHR celebrated by broadcasting Mike Oxlade presented a 24 hour live from the Spinal Café from 8am to marathon called 12 in 24. The aim was 6pm.

For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 17 18 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Patients, staff and visitors to the Later in the year we were pleased to hospital met many of our presenters announce and welcome Ken Bruce and some were interviewed on air. We (from BBC Radio 2) as our Patron. Ken also played lots of requests and is a great ambassador for Hospital dedications during the day. The Radio and indeed started his broadcast would not have been possible broadcasting career at the hospital without a generous grant from the broadcasting service in Glasgow. Haddenham Beer Festival who funded a new portable broadcast system. How far we’ve come since 1978! We would like to thank the Hospital Trust and the staff of the Spinal Café for their help in putting this together. During 2018 Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio were sorry to hear that Freda Roberts, who had been our President since we started in 1978, would have to stand down due to moving away from the area. We would like to thank Freda for being our President and for all that she has done for us during her 40 years with us.

Ken Bruce, Patron

To be continued …

Freda Roberts, President of SMHR *Correct at time of publication 1978-2018 To make a request: Telephone 01296 331575 – Internal phones dial Ext 6094 SMS Text message – Start your message with SMHR followed by a space and send it to 60777 Texts are charged at your normal message rate Email: [email protected] Direct from our free App You can listen on your Smartphone, Tablet, Laptop or on a Radio 1575AM

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members have in common are a love of music and a desire to entertain the listener, whether they be patients and staff at the hospital or people listening in from further afield via the internet’. The evening request shows are a vital Matthew Horton from the Wednesday part of our live programming and are request show says ‘I work in the IT just as much fun to put together and Department of the hospital and present as they are to listen to. therefore realise how important SMHR Whether you would like to hear Rihanna can be in helping patients as the or Ray Charles or you prefer Little hospital staff are always very busy and Richard to Little Mix, then the week- cannot always be there with patients. nightly request show teams will play the ‘As a request show presenter, I have songs we hope will make your stay in been privileged enough to work with hospital a pleasant one. some fantastic producers as well as Our request shows are broadcast meeting patients within the hospital. My from Monday to Friday between 8pm team help me visit the wards and meet and 10pm and are run by volunteer patients; we always make sure that presenters and producers who tour the when we leave a ward everyone has wards asking staff and patients for their been talked to and is smiling. requests or dedications. Each show is Steve Andrews, the presenter of different and depending on which night Tuesday night’s show, has been of the week you’re listening, you’ll hear involved in presenting request shows for a whole range of features including a almost 25 years and jokes that his show run down of local events, quizzes, the is the ‘biggest and the best’. latest songs, golden oldies and ‘The ease with which patients can fascinating chat. access the internet means that listening ‘Our large music library means that to SMHR and sending in a request has we are rarely unable to play a never been easier. Many people bring in requested song,’ said Mike Oxlade, their smart phone, tablet device or even presenter of the Monday Night Request laptop and can connect with the radio Show. station either by visiting www.smhr.co.uk ‘It doesn’t matter if your request is for or downloading the free SMHR app’, something from the sixties and earlier said Steve. or the latest release from your favourite The Request Shows are kindly artist, we will do our best to play it. The sponsored by Buxted Construction.* main things that the radio station *Correct at time of publication

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Martin Kinch Martin when he started in Martin with the late Norman Martin and Noel Martin with Roy Wood Martin and Tony Hadley Every Monday evening at 6pm, you 1979 Wisdom Edmonds can hear a show called Solid Gold, presented by honorary life member, founder member of The Tornadoes, is could be in a quiz with him answering Something else that has changed a lot Martin Kinch. one of the most prolific drummers in UK questions about his career and he gave is the way people can hear us. When I Martin has been a presenter at the recording history, appearing on them my phone number. I won the quiz; started, and for quite a long time after station since January 1979 and has hundreds of recordings and has the prize was a pair of his red that, patients could only hear us through been presenting Solid Gold since 1990. featured on lots of different UK number sunglasses! plastic that came out of the Features on the show include ‘The one singles. I've seen many changes here over the wall by their bed; now we can be heard Mystery Year’ and ‘The Solid Gold One of my favourite artists is Roy years, when I first started we were only on AM as well as on the internet and our Jukebox’ as well as playing some of the Wood and I’ve been lucky enough to playing records and to find songs that free App, so it’s all very different now. best music, mostly from the 60s, 70s, interview him a few times over the were requested we had to flick through I’ve recently celebrated being a and 80s, plus a few from the 90s and years, in fact I’ve actually appeared on index cards in our record library. Over member of SMHR for forty years; it’s 00s. live TV with Roy. It was on Chris the years that has all changed with CDs something I am very proud of and I still Martin remembers... The very first Evans’s Channel 4 show ‘Don’t Forget and computers. We do still have a enjoy it just as much as I always have. programme I did was a ‘new release’ Your Toothbrush’. He was booked to record deck in the studio though and I I’m not sure if I’ll still be here in show, I’m still playing some of those play a couple of songs on the show and like to play some vinyl on my show at another forty years but I’d like to think I records but they are classic oldies now! they asked him if he knew anyone who times. will be ☺ After that I did a request show for many years before moving on to do a chat show programme. Guests on my show in the past have included the late Sir Norman Wisdom, Randall And Hopkirk star Kenneth Cope, Geoffrey Palmer, Bev Bevan from The Move and ELO, John Otway, Noel Edmonds, David Icke, John Craven, Anne Robinson and Colin Baker who was the sixth Doctor in the BBC’s Dr Who series at the time. More recently I’ve interviewed Tony Hadley from Spandau Ballet, Brian Nash from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Freddie Jones (best known for playing Sandy Thomas in Emmerdale) and Clem Cattini. Clem, as well as being a Martin and Clem Cattini Martin with Freddie Jones Martin in the studio Martin in our CD and record library

22 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 23 In 2003, he won the Aylesbury Town 2010 saw Dez chosen as the host for Mayor's Award for Services to the the very first Military Tattoo in Aylesbury Community. Town Centre as well as the first ever As well as the studio work including AVDC Star Awards held at the Civic voice overs for adverts, promos and Centre and he again hosted the AVDC videos, Dez has hosted and compered Star Awards in 2011 at the Waterside many events around the Vale such as Theatre. The End Of The World Music Festival, Dez compered ‘Hobble on the Cobbles’ Stoke Mandeville's Party in the Park, The in 2013 and 2014 and appeared with Mayor's Songs for Christmas Concert, many local Bands as well as headliners The Recycled Clothes Show, Aylesbury ‘The Searchers’ and ‘Toploader’. on Sea where he has appeared with Since 2015, Dez has been the Samia Smith from and compere of ‘Live in the Park’, part of the in 2009 he hosted the same event with Parklife Weekend over the August Bank John Challis and Sue Holderness aka Holiday. Born in High Wycombe, Dez Kay's love ‘Boycie and Marlene’ from Only Fools Since 2013 Dez has also been the host of music took him into the world of discos and Horses. He also regularly comperes of World Picnic Day in Milton Keynes. He where he worked as a professional DJ Carol Fest, a very popular Town Centre also loved compering at the Waddesdon for a number of years in the local pubs event at Christmas. Manor MADD Festival in 2013 on both and night clubs and he fondly remembers Dez has also been MC of The the bandstand and main stages. his days as Resident DJ at ‘Woollys’ Aylesbury Business Excellence Awards Dez has also been in front of the night club in High Wycombe. He regularly presenting this prestigious event with the camera and appeared as an extra in presented programmes for Wycombe likes of Roger Black, the Olympic athlete, ‘Triumph in the Skies’, Hong Kong’s top Radio in the seventies and early eighties Steve Davis from the world of snooker, , and a short film which and moved to Aylesbury in 1982. Bobby Davro, Steve Nallon, Cannon and starred Jessica Hines called ‘Generation He then joined Stoke Mandeville Ball and Phil Tufnell, ‘the Cat’, ex- of Vipers’. Hospital Radio and has recently cricketer and Team Captain on From an early age he was spellbound celebrated 36 years with the station and A Question of Sport. by the magic of the stage and the presents his regular weekly show ‘The Dez has also hosted the Hemel atmosphere that performances can Dez Kay Show’ which includes great Hempstead Business Excellence Awards create and he loves the theatre and in music, interviews and regular features. with Tom O'Connor and worked with the particular musicals and only wishes that Dez also presents one-off ‘specials’ late comedian, Mike Reid. he could sing. Dez comments,’I guess often with celebrities being interviewed Between 2002 and 2010, Dez was on that's why I'm a presenter!’ and choosing their favourite songs with tour in theatres across the UK as host He is a passionate Spurs’ fan and has recent guests including Tony Hadley, ex- and compere with the hit show ‘Elvis, An been a season ticket holder at Tottenham Spandau Ballet and Russell Grant. American Trilogy’. Hotspur since 1980/81.

World Picnic Day 2013 Tony Hadley with Dez Russell Grant and Dez Dez and Priscilla Presley Jimmy Osmond and Dez

24 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 25 official charts would look like the following day (Sunday). In October 2011, The Aylesbury Chart Show and presenter Mark Withey celebrated 1,000 editions. In April 2015, the show celebrated its 25th birthday and continues to be Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio’s longest running show, broadcasting to the patients and staff of Stoke Mandeville Hospital for over a quarter of a century! In July 2015, with the change of day of the publication of the official charts to a 1990 to the Present Day Friday, Saturday’s Chart Show was updated to include the new charts as The original format of the show was to well as the popular featured oldies chart. provide the listener with a programme Like similar shows on other radio that would present the new and current stations, it’s the constant excitement of releases in a simple and effective way new artists, songs and music styles that and that would importantly put music at keep the show fresh and will continue to the forefront. What would start off as a do so, hopefully, for the next 25 years! short update into the magazine In July 2018 we were pleased to programme in the early nineties has, Georgia Ash, Abbey Brown and Dean announce that The Aylesbury Chart over the years, developed into a four Aylesbury Chart Show Presenter Mark Callum from DAC Removals at the Show is now sponsored by DAC hour show every Saturday morning and Withey SMHR studio Removals.* has now been broadcast by the station The Aylesbury Chart Show with Mark for nearly thirty years! Wednesday evening featuring the local four hour show on a Saturday morning Withey is on Stoke Mandeville Hospital Back in January 1990, Mark Withey top 20 singles and album charts. For the featuring the national singles and album Radio every Saturday morning from began to present a short three minute first time, as well as CDs/minidiscs, charts plus an oldies chart from years 9am on 1575 AM and via the SMHR insert into the weekly ‘Magazine Show’ music began to be played from our gone by. app/website and can be followed on to provide a rundown of the local top computer system ‘Myriad’ – and this has In 2009, the show began to feature Twitter – @aylesburychart. ten, playing thirty seconds of three continued to this day, being our the midweek charts (the national sales For more information on the show visit climbers and the number one. database library of music which is the up to Thursday evening) which would http://www.smhr.co.uk/chartshow.shtml On 6th April 1990, The Aylesbury basis of our output, with new single provide an accurate picture of what the *Correct at time of publication Chart Show was born and became a one releases being added to the system on hour show on a Wednesday evening at a weekly basis. 7pm, featuring the top 20 best selling From 2005, downloads were singles in Aylesbury, compiled from sales introduced and by the end of the 00s, of 7 inch/12 inch/cassette singles from the CD single became almost extinct Record House in Aylesbury. The show and the local chart was replaced with featured hits from Sinead O’Connor, the national chart which featured sales Kylie Minogue, Phil Collins, Del Amitri, of CDs and downloads. At this time Cher and other big names from the time. downloads were not available in the It was the early nineties until the mid-00s data provided by Record House and it that CDs became the preferred format as wasn’t long before Aylesbury’s favourite vinyl slowly began to decline in record shop could no longer sustain a popularity. viable business as CD sales plummeted In 1997, when Stoke Mandeville and the shop sadly closed. Hospital Radio began broadcasting on In 2008, when we moved to our 1575 AM, the programme expanded temporary site on ward 4X, the show and become a two-hour show on a merged with ‘The Hit Trip’ to become a

26 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 27 with Steve Wyatt, who was brilliant at putting me at ease. I also didn’t expect what happened next. The interview went really well and Steve asked if I had ever considered doing something like it before as I was very comfortable talking on the radio. He encouraged me to visit him during one of his shows which I did and he got me involved in his show straight away. I realised this was an opportunity to be involved in something completely different to anything I’d ever done before. It was quite exciting and I thought I should definitely give it a go. That was in November 2017 and I completed my paperwork for the Voluntary Services Department and started in December. I am a producer for the Monday Night Request Show with Mike Oxlade who is showing me the ropes alongside Mary Miller, who has just qualified to be a presenter. We have a lot of fun on Mondays, choosing some fantastic I find it a bit surreal that I’m writing an raffle and games stalls. All of this would music as well as playing requests from article for the Stoke Mandeville Hospital help raise some money for the NSIC patients, relatives and staff. Radio magazine. How on earth did that charity to help provide equipment and We sometimes have guests in – some happen? This was definitely not improve the patients’ environment. of whom do live sets, playing their own something I had ever been expecting to The fayre in the first year went really music which is very exciting – and some do! So how did I get here? well so for the second year I decided to guests who come in to have a look I’ve worked for this Trust for 16 years ask the Hospital Radio if they would be around and just be part of the show for and am currently a medical secretary in kind enough to advertise it. Hospital an evening. It’s so much fun and even the National Spinal Injuries Centre. I’ve Radio had been installed in all the better knowing that we may just be been here for five years and have really spinal wards and also broadcast in the making some patients’ lives a little more enjoyed being part of the NSIC team. RVS Café, so I thought it would be a interesting during their stay in the The patients and staff at the Centre are great way of getting the message hospital. like a large family and it’s easy to get around. I was just expecting to send I have been very impressed at the caught up in the events and activities them some details and they would read commitment by the volunteers who run that go on here. it out on the radio a few times. But no – the station and even more impressed with I started to realise that there were I was asked to go along and record an the technical knowledge of the team who several members of staff who were very interview. I was not expecting that. set up and manage the most amazing creative – making and selling their craft If I’m honest I didn’t even know where equipment to make sure the station is goods at fayres and other events. I Hospital Radio was based, I had to ask able to broadcast 24 hours a day. decided to set up and run a Christmas where to go. It looks simply like a shed We also did a mobile set recently on Craft Fayre in the foyer of the NSIC to with some aerials on the roof. So when I Local Radio Day, broadcasting from the give the staff, friends and relatives and walked in and saw the studios, I was RVS Café which was so much fun. one or two patients the chance to make really blown away and possibly just a little I would definitely encourage others to and sell some lovely craft goods. This intimidated – it was such a professional come along and join the team. It does would give the patients a chance to do set up that I felt quite nervous. take commitment but it’s definitely worth a bit of Christmas shopping and have What I didn’t expect was how much it and it is so much fun. some fun at the same time with our fun it would be recording an interview Annette Wylie

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My name is Steve Andrews and I was born in Oxford, I moved to Haddenham in 1984 when I got married. I've worked in the construction industry as a heavy plant operator since I left school. 1 2 I joined Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio in 1998 as a producer on the Nick 4 Sievewright show on Tuesday nights and eventually took over the show. I like meeting people and enjoy hearing from the patients and playing their requests and helping to cheer them up. I have always enjoyed music and get a great deal of pleasure 3 from it. I still present the Tuesday Night Request Show each week, and also every Sunday evening at 6pm I present the Irish and Country Music Show playing all the best Irish and Country music. My love of Irish and Country music has given me the opportunity to meet some great people over the years including Paul Claffey, the boss of 5 Midwest Radio County Mayo, Irish singers, Mike Denver and Brendan Shine, Country singer, Robert Mizzell Steve pictured with... (1) Paul Claffey; and Ireland's number one entertainer (2) Mike Denver; (3) Robert Mizzell; Michael English. (4) Brendan Shine and (5) Michael English

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Hospital Radio at Stoke Mandeville We actually have quite a few these changes as best we can with the 1575AM on radios, on speakers has come a long way since the early computers now keeping all that music funds we have available. installed around the hospital, online at days in 1978 when it was all an playing and backed up – six in fact that Patients at the hospital can now get www.smhr.co.uk and via our App. The analogue world and vinyl was the sit there whirring away quietly in a nice in touch with us via phone, SMS text, App can be downloaded for free, from music format of choice. No internet, air conditioned room keeping them email, Facebook and via our own App both the Apple and Android App stores. Facebook or online streaming back nicely chilled. which is free to download from the Just search for – Stoke Mandeville then. Then add onto that back-up servers, Apple and Android App stores. Hospital Radio Jump forward to the present day email computers and such like and very We have a fantastic team who look I am very proud to be the engineer where we have a computer-based quickly you’re into running a fairly after the computer playout system and for the Stoke Mandeville Hospital audio playback system that allows us sophisticated computer network, all of my thanks goes to Mike Oxlade and Radio. the ability to broadcast 24 hours a day, which has to be 100% rock solid and Matthew Horton who put in hundreds of If you have any technical questions even when our volunteers are not protected from those nasty hackers. hours keeping the system updated with you would like answered or would like actually at the studios, meaning we can We’ve had some fantastic support new music and scheduling the to come and look behind the scenes, provide the patients with the very best from some major players in the automated hours. please get in touch at music anytime of the day or night. broadcast industry from companies For Local Radio Day 2018 we carried [email protected] such as Sonifex, who make audio out a live nine-hour outside broadcast Simon Daniels equipment. They donated some kit to from the Spinal Unit Café which is Station Engineer us and also give us a discount when some distance from our building. Again, we need to buy any new items. Also, using some clever technology, we were ITN in London who make the news for able to take a mobile studio out to the ITV, C4 and C5 donated a whole range patients and the response was of audio equipment that was being amazing. replaced due to an upgrade. While it Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio is was no longer of use to them, it was working closely with the Trust to identify useful to us and has again helped keep new areas around the hospital where us on the air. we can put speakers in waiting areas, We would like to thank all the etc. We have had very positive companies that either donate or offer feedback from patients, staff and us equipment at a discounted price – it visitors in areas fitted with Hospital all helps keep the service running at Radio – it provides some light relief the hospital. while waiting for an appointment. Technology changes almost daily Patients, visitors and staff can hear now and we have to try to keep up with Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio on

32 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 33 he looked at me and I had to say I work in the Hospital’s IT Department so broadcast from various locations within the something live on air! Cue rabbit in the realise how important SMHR can be in hospital. We were able to broadcast live for headlights! Thrown in at the deep end. I helping patients as the hospital staff are nine hours taking the news on the hour. managed to splutter my name, the sound always very busy. If you see me around the hospital, feel was like someone exposed to hydrogen. As a request show presenter, I have free to ask for a request as I would like to Simon and Phil, the other producer, been privileged to work with some fantastic hear from you. If you are interested in quickly made me feel at home and now we ASHLEY producers as well as meeting patients in hearing more details about our projects, play the requests and talk about all sorts the hospital. My team help me visit the please get in touch with me via our website. FRAZER of things from space to football to St wards and meet patients; we always make I wish all patients a speedy recovery. I Bernard dogs! My ambition/mission is to sure that when we leave a ward everyone also hope that you enjoy our shows here get the ISS to send us a request on air. has been talked to and is smiling. at SMHR. The biggest surprise is that although the I have been involved with some of the radio side is very interesting, one of the technical support for the station. One KATIE KING rewarding parts is what we do in project was to upgrade our library preparation for the show. Each Friday we database to Microsoft Access; this has go to a different ward and ask the patients allowed us to access our music library of I was born in the 1960s in Newcastle and staff if they would like a request 50,000 tracks on any computer within the upon Tyne; the hospital was quite rough – played on the show. For some patients we studio complex. us babies tunnelled out with our nappy are probably the only visitors they see that The SMHR technical support team have pins – remember them? I grew up in day and although we spend only a few been very busy in the last few years since Newcastle and went to the polytechnic minutes, I think we make a real difference the previous magazine. One project that during the 1980s, my favourite music era, to their day. SMHR is really all about the has had a massive impact is the speaker Well, where can I begin? My SMHR but I also like some of the more modern patients, visitors and staff. Oh, I was system in some of the outpatient areas of journey started in early 2018 and since stuff and well known classical tunes. I wrong about not being able to talk to the hospital. If you are in areas such as then I have been on the Tuesday Night moved ‘down south’ when I married a local patients! the Mandeville Wing, the surgery ward Request Show with Steve Andrews and Bucks girl in 1994, living first in High My ambition is to complete the training waiting area, X-ray and the Spinal Café, the team. Since the first week, I just knew Wycombe before we moved to Aylesbury. and take the exam: a two hour show with you will be able to hear SMHR from the I was going to be happy here. Early in 2018, I was looking for a charity me pressing all the buttons and judged by speakers on the internal network. As a If you do not know me, my name is that I could volunteer some time to. I have my peers and maybe by the time you read team, we also make sure the App is up-to- Katie-Louise and I’m a college student worked with IAM in Aylesbury for some this, I may even have my own show. date with the current schedule as well as studying radio plus other media subjects years but I was looking for a change. I feel maintaining the station’s AM service. which includes film and photography. if everyone volunteered an hour or so One of my favourite recent projects is I have cerebral palsy, which means every week, the world would be a much the bedside system in the National Spinal finding a group of people that accept me better place. I remember saying to my Injuries Centre. Using a Raspberry Pi (a for who I am is sometimes tricky but not family I would be useless as a hospital small computer designed to teach here, they have all been lovely and very visitor as I would not really know how to computer programming) and a lot of hard welcoming, so I thank them for that. interact with the patients. work, we have been able to broadcast our This is just a little note to say a BIG special I came across SMHR's website and MATTHEW internal internet stream across the hospital thank you to a few people who I could not thought yes, I could do that (I have worked HORTON network to every bedside television in the have done this radio journey without, namely on the fringes of TV for a number of years, National Spinal Injuries Centre. Andy Robinson and Steve Andrews. mostly in the IT handling of movies and Hi, I'm Matthew and I joined SMHR in Another big project we have completed commercials). I filled in the online form May 2011. I have had an interest in was the upgrade of our music playout and was invited for an interview where it broadcasting for a few years and SMHR system, Myriad, back in March 2017. After was suggested I could work as a producer has helped me fulfill this goal. more than a year of planning between on a request show, I have a wide range of favourite music: Simon Daniels, Mike Oxlade and myself, After the various checks we have to do mainly pop including groups such as we have been able to move the computer were completed, I joined SMHR in June Abba, Queen and Coldplay. I began systems to the newer version of our playout 2018 as a producer on the Friday Night producing on The Friday Night Request system. This has allowed us to use more MARY Request Show with Simon Davidge. On Show and Entertainment Tuesday. I then up-to-date software which is a lot more MILLER the first show Simon asked me into the moved onto The Wednesday Night stable so we have been able to introduce studio, I was thrilled to sit in and watch. Request Show and a technology show some new programmes to our schedule. Hi, I joined Stoke Mandeville Hospital Then Simon brought up the microphone, called The Modern World. In 2012 I was The last few years, after a big team Radio in January 2017 and did my training introduced the show and said ‘and with me given the opportunity to present The effort, we have been able to bring the with Mike Oxlade on the Monday Night in the studio are my two producers’ then Wednesday Night Request Show. studio to patients and visitors and Request Show. I have always wanted to

34 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 35 be on radio and love listening to all types Inn, Aston Clinton. ‘Mick must have you in the weekend mood. As well as broadcasting on Friday nights of music. I searched SMHR when thinking enjoyed it, as he came back the next It was surely fate that having been two the team from the magazine show does its of New Year resolutions at the beginning evening and had the same meal.’ of the longest serving presenters of the bit to raise funds for the station. This of 2017 and applied using the online form. show but never having worked together includes having the show sponsored by I was contacted promptly by Mike and COLIN MORTON & until a special anniversary celebratory Richardsons Chartered Accountants* and invited to come in and join the Monday STELLA WITHEY edition, Stella and I would be responsible attending a car boot sale to sell goods night team. I have helped at the local radio for bringing the show back to the airways donated by the members. Picking one of day in 2017 and 2018 when we broadcast in its latest incarnation. the hottest days of the year, we managed from the Spinal Café. Now a monthly show, replacing the to take over £100. Thank you if you came I am Irish but have lived in Scotland and Week-End Show on the last Friday of the to say hello or bought something. England since 1988. I am married with three month, in its rightful home of Friday nights, For over 25 years and many more to sons. I am now qualified to present my own from 6pm-8pm, Stella and I bring the best come, Friday nights on SMHR have been show and stand in for Mike when he is on elements of our two incarnations into a the only way to start your weekend. holiday and occasionally for other presenters. glorious two hour weekend extravaganza. *Correct at time of publication I started presenting my own show in Local news and sport, TV and cinema November 2018, you can hear me on highlights, local what’s on and another Monday mornings between 10 and 12. chance to hear some of the great interviews and musical sets that have graced the airways of SMHR over the years. We also speak to those making the local news to get the stories behind the headlines. Amongst our regular contributors is ANDY B. Michelle from the fund raising team at Colin and Stella in the studio ROBINSON Florence Nightingale Hospice who keeps EAMONN In 1992, as a fresh faced 17 year old, I us up-to-date on the great work they do I have been with SMHR a few years, MONTAGUE joined the newly launched Magazine show, and their many activities, including the staying pretty much where I started as a hosted by the then chairman Mike ever popular Midnight Walk. producer on Steve Andrews’ Tuesday Eamonn joined SMHR as a volunteer in Mumford every Friday night. A show I went To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Night Request Show. I undertook training 2013, the proposal was first put to him by on to host with the fabulous Helen Lee for NHS in 2018, the magazine show invited with Steve and qualified as a presenter Steve Andrews in 1999 – you might say, several glorious years until work Michelle to co-present the show with us. about nine months in but an irregular work he gave it due consideration! opportunities meant I had to leave at the Along with playing hits from artists born in pattern meant it was difficult to commit to Since then he has worked as producer start of the year 2000. After a short spell 1948 (Lulu, Ozzy Osbourne, Cat Stevens) hosting my own show live. If you’re going and really enjoys visiting patients to get of Helen going solo, the show was left in we chatted to Michelle about her role and to anchor a live show, you have to be requests. ‘I would like to have my own the capable hands of Stella Withey and their forthcoming activities which include committed and reliable and my schedule show one day but I am more than happy Dave Gamage. their own special anniversary of 30 years, remains all over the place. I work as an at present to be in the background at The duo introduced a selection of which SMHR looks forward to being part of. actor, voice actor, presenter and children’s SMHR and help in other areas’. interviews with names from the world of entertainer and when the work is there He admits to loving 70’s music which sport, entertainment and music as well as you have to be ready. stemmed from going to the celebrated the then hospital chief and local I enjoy volunteering at SMHR and am discos held at the Catholic Hall in celebrities, mixed with Dave’s love of glad the team there is understanding of Haddenham. ‘I can remember when I country music. The show would continue my other commitments, they really value heard a song for the first time then, it for many more years until other every contribution, no matter how small. would grab you and then you had to buy it commitments meant it briefly lay dormant. One of the challenges with volunteering – Sweet Talkin’ Guy by the Chiffons is one In 2012, after a short(ish) break, I at the radio is that it’s very difficult to meet example. Funny, most people I knew from returned to the station and it was only a your fellow volunteers as we usually do the 70’s wanted them to end fast but now matter of time before I found myself back different shows at different times and are they want them back. I am currently on a Friday night. After some often like ships that pass in the night. We discovering talent from the 70’s I wish I experimenting with different formats and are also often, on the request shows at had discovered then, like the late great, co-presenters, I settled on the two shows least, playing music that isn’t perhaps unsung Ronnie Dyson’. you see in the schedule today. entirely to our taste, with the selections His background is in catering and The Week-End show provides a look coming from patients and staff in the hospitality and he once had the pleasure ahead to the week’s big sporting action hospital. So, after thinking a while I came of cooking a meal (poached turbot) for locally and nationally, the top showbiz Colin with Stella and Mark Withey raising up with the idea for my show ‘Up Close Mick Jagger when he worked at the Bell stories and the perfect mix of music to get funds for SMHR and Musical’ as I thought it would be a

36 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 37 great way for our listeners to get to know members. When I joined three years ago, that evokes a memory or moment of the volunteers a little better, allowing me to I did so because I had a passion for music significance in their life. Hearing these, our get to know them in the process and also and for presenting and wanted to learn mind and thoughts recall associated allowing my interviewees to be entirely about radio. I am pleased to say that events enabling us to remember and indulgent with their music choices. The volunteering at SMHR has given me that relive, albeit for a short time, some of format is not that far removed from ‘Desert and more and the best bit has probably those precious half forgotten moments Island Discs’ although I try not to make been meeting the lovely patients and staff once again. anyone cry. on the ‘ward walks’ we do as producers to Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio is a For 'Up Close' I ask my get requests. It really is a life affirming charity completely run by volunteers that interviewees/colleagues/victims (delete as thing to do and sometimes the person you make the magic happen; we all have our appropriate) to select eight or nine songs talk to for five minutes about music might own stories and reasons why we do it but that mean something to them, something be the only person that visits that patient every one of us makes it our mission to they love and to be prepared to talk about all day. If you have a couple of hours help bring those precious moments back. their choices and themselves for an hour. spare a week and are curious to know Broadcasting directly to the patients and The show is recorded at a time to suit both more, please get in touch, you might be staff of Stoke Mandeville Hospital and them and me and so far it is proving very the next best presenter, producer, request beyond via 1575AM or our on line internet enjoyable both for the people being collector, engineer or fundraiser we need. feed using a free app, we play what you interviewed, for myself as host and for our I promise it’ll be fun! want to hear 24 hours a day, seven days a listeners on a Sunday lunchtime. We have 'Up Close & Musical' can be heard on week. Our daily request and specialist tried to keep the shows as untopical as Sunday afternoons at midday.* shows are unique and particularly popular, possible as they can be aired again in the * Correct at time of publication so if you haven’t heard us yet, do it today future and serve as a record of the and check out our website at wonderful people that volunteer their time ALAN TABERER www.smhr.co.uk here at SMHR. So far I have managed to I am proud to be a volunteer at SMHR get most of the current presenters into the so.....why not indeed. Make time count, chair and am starting to work my way Come join us. through the producers. The idea is that once we have had everyone from the team in the big chair, we open the format up and invite our listeners and key contributors at the hospital to join me for their hour of indulgence. Who knows, one day it could be you! If you’re interested, Why Stoke Mandeville Hospital Radio? email me your playlist, a short bio and tell Why ever not! Is how I signed off my me why it should be you, to profile on the station’s website and it is [email protected] even more true now than it ever has been. Highlights of the show so far have been I joined in July 2017 and within weeks hearing the vastly varied musical tastes, quickly realised I should have done it from big band to dance hall, from obscure years ago. No time or too busy are the rock to cheesy pop, from classical to goto excuses many use and I was just as skiffle! it’s all covered and it’s all personal guilty to overuse these slogans as the and yes, we have even had some tears. In next person. the process of getting ‘under the musical Being a volunteer at Stoke Mandeville skin’ of my colleagues here at the radio Hospital has really forced me to think very and getting to know their musical tastes. carefully about the importance of time and We have had some lovely chats and it’s the role it plays in life. But perhaps more been a struggle at times to get all their importantly, how I can use my time to help music choices in! enhance the quality of life of others. If you are reading this and thinking that Simple interventions at the right moment volunteering might be for you, then on have the potential to help make positive behalf of everyone at SMHR I invite you to changes to one’s life. Sounds and music visit our website and make contact. We in particular play a very important role in are always delighted to hear from new this respect. people and are constantly looking for new Everyone has a sound, tune or song

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44 For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 45 46 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible Lewis Reed helps paralympic hopeful regain his independence Allan Ritchie’s relationship with Lewis Reed began over 2 years ago when he started looking for a new wheelchair accessible vehicle (WAV) as he explains: ‘I have been a T10 incomplete paraplegic since my spinal cord injury in December 2014. After being discharged from hospital I looked at several vehicle adaption options, which culminated in my Land Rover Discovery being adapted with hand controls. However, this was not ideal as I found it difficult to manoeuvre my wheelchair in and out of the vehicle.’ Allan started looking at various WAV solutions and contacted Lewis Reed. ‘From my initial conversation they could not do enough to help, even sending a demonstration vehicle from the company HQ in Liverpool to my home, which is Executive both offer superb levels of north of Aberdeen for a test drive. The specification and trim along with a choice level of customer service has been of petrol or diesel engines, a manual or absolutely outstanding.’ Following a six/seven speed DSG gearbox and the meeting, during which Allan explained option of a rear or side lift or ramp with what he was looking for in terms of a lowering suspension. There is also the vehicle and its capabilities, he placed his option of two different wheelbases on the order. ‘It really was a simple as that – SE. The Caravelle also comes with three when you have the combination of a wheelchair seating options; front, middle superb vehicle and equally superb or rear. customer care, why look anywhere else.’ ‘It is hard to put into words what a continued Allan. difference Lewis Reed and my WAV have made to my life. Having the independence to drive anywhere is just amazing. For example, in March 2017, I heard about the IPC’s decision to recognise Olympic Trap and decided that it was something I wanted to be involved in. After driving over 5,800 miles around Scotland and England for weekly training and shooting in competitions and GB selection shoots, I was delighted to be selected by British Shooting as first reserve for the Class 1 GB Team for the first World Championship held in Lonato, Italy 2017. For more information on the full range Allan’s vehicle is a Volkswagen of wheelchair accessible vehicles Caravelle Executive 2.0TDI. Among the available from Lewis Reed call 0151 343 features on Allan’s vehicle are a rear tail 5360 or visit: www.lewisreedgroup.co.uk lift for simple access in and out of the You can also follow Lewis Reed on twitter vehicle, tip and fold seats and a six-way @lewisreedgroup and facebook transfer seat. The Caravelle SE and www.facebook.com/lewisreedwavltd

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50 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible For your requests, please call us on 01296 331575. Listen on line at www.smhr.co.uk 51 52 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 p56 THE FILM QUIZ

The first public film show in Britain was given at the Polytechnic in Regent Street on February 20th, 1896; Auguste and Louis Lumiere invented the Cinematograph used for showing the film a year earlier. Here are a few movie questions to set your mind reeling!

1. Some child stars, like Elizabeth Taylor movie as well. What was the film? and Natalie Wood, went on to 9. Very few film stars have remained superstardom. Do you know what unmarried but do you know who the happened to the following? following married? They were all (a) Shirley Temple celebrities in their own right. (b) Mandy Miller (a) Barbara Bach (c) Mark Lester (b) Laurence Harvey 2. Dustin Hoffman was paid $17,000 for (c) Patricia Neal the smash hit The Graduate. A couple of (d) Catherine Deneuve years later he was paid £425,000 for a (e) Rita Hayworth film that was a complete flop. What was 10. Anthony Newley, James Booth, that film? Terence Stamp and Laurence Harvey all 3. Which was the first British film to be turned down the part. But this particular released in Red China? You’d be film established which star in his surprised! inimitable cockney persona and what was the film? 4. Cover girl Lauren Bacall made a rapid rise to fame. Her portrait on Harper’s 11. Many of today’s superstars earned Bazaar was spotted by Howard Hawks comparatively little in their early days. and overnight stardom followed when the And even when success comes some 19 year old was cast opposite her future stars are prepared to work for a nominal husband. Who was he? fee. James Cagney played the role of George M. Cohan in The Seven Little 5. Do you know where Al Jolson was Foys for nothing, in respect for the born? memory of Eddie Foy, who had 6. Actress Maureen O’Sullivan has a very befriended him in his youth. Do you know famous daughter. Who is she? how much Sean Connery was paid when he won the coveted 007 role in the first 7. Nowadays every major movie is Bond movie Dr. No? released in Dolby Stereo. But what was the first stereo film? It starred Roger 12. Not all film stars were what fans may Daltrey. have assumed them to be. Do you know which nationality Al Jolson was? 8. Barbra Streisand not only starred in a film but directed, produced and wrote the answers p56

54 Please support the advertisers ... without their kind support this publication would not have been possible THE BRITISH TV SITCOM QUIZ

Do you remember the classic British TV sitcoms? When Tom and Barbara showed us how to live The Good Life, old lag Fletcher stirred up the laughs in Porridge and the staff at Grace Brothers always served us with a smile? How much you do recall about these popular characters and the sitcoms that left their laughter lines on the face of British TV comedy. 1. In Steptoe and Son, what was Harold Damp began life as a stage play? Steptoe’s middle name? 11. When Tom and Barbara Good decided (a) Churchill; (b) Kitchener; (c) Montgomery to become self-sufficient in The Good Life 2. True or false? Before Warren Mitchell they swapped their car for something that will landed the role of Alf Garnett in Till Death us be of more use to them in their new venture. do Part, Peter Sellers was approached to What did they receive in return? play the character? (a) garden rotavator; (b) generator; (c) 3. In On the Buses, bus driver Stan Butler loom lived at home with his ... 12. Where in Spain did Fawlty Towers (a) mum, brother & sister-in-law; (b) mum, waiter Manuel come from? sister & brother; (c) mum, sister & brother-in-law (a) Barcelona; (b) Madrid; (c) Seville 4. What was the name of Sid Abbott’s local 13. True or false? In To the Manor Born, pub where he often escaped to get some Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton’s pet dog was a peace and quiet away from his family in corgi? Bless this House? 14. How much was Del Trotter going to (a) Cock and Bull; (b) Dog and Pheasant; charge Lord and Lady Ridgemere for taking (c) Hare and Hounds down and cleaning their two Louis XIV 5. Throughout the 69 episodes of Are You chandeliers in the Only Fools and Horses Being Served? Mrs Slocombe dyed her hair episode ‘A Touch of Glass’? a total of 15 different colours. The most (a) £250; (b) £300; (c) £350 popular colour appeared ten times, what was 15. In the 22nd and ultimate episode of it? Just Good Friends, Vince and Penny finally (a) blue; (b) green; (c) pink marry but in which 6. True or false? In Last of the Summer city? Wine, one of the things that Compo (a) Paris; Simmonite fancied about his long-suffering (b) Rome; neighbour Nora Batty was the sight of her in (c) Venice wrinkled stockings? 7. In Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Frank answers p56 Spencer has one certificate to his name which he acquired for swimming the breast stroke but for what distance? (a) 15 yards; (b) 20 yards; (c) 25 yards 8. In Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Terry Collier leaves the army after having served for five years. What rank did he finally reach? (a) Captain; (b) Corporal; (c) Sergeant 9. In Porridge, Fletcher was sentenced to five years at Slade Prison for robbing what? (a) a bank; (b) a house; (c) a lorry 10. True or false? Rising

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ANSWERS: Can You Spot the Logo? Cadburys; Coca Cola; Disney; Ebay; Lego; Pizza Hut; Subway; Pepsi; Argos; Tesco; tic tac; Yahoo; Esso; Aldi; Oracle; Google; Canon. Dingbats: 1. Broken promise; 2. A trip around the world; 3. London underground; 4. Forgive and forget; 5. See for yourself; 6. Any questions?; 7. Mixed up kid; 8. A shot in the dark; 9.Captain Hook; 10.No through road. Disney Lyric Quiz: 1. When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio); 2. A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes (Cinderella); 3. Some Day My Prince Will Come (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs); 4. A Whole New World (Aladdin); 5. Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast); 6.When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio); 7. Part of Your World (Little Mermaid); 8. I Just Can’t Wait to be King (The Lion King); 9. The Second Star to the Right (Peter Pan); 10. Sycamore (Pochantas). Film Buff Quiz: 1.(a) Shirley Temple became US Ambassador to Ghana and Chief of Protocol at the White House; (b) Mandy Miller married an architect and now lives in an 18th century refectory at Newhaven, Sussex; (c) Mark Lester, star of Oliver! (1968) was working as a barman at the Britannia pub in Kensington in 1985 after beating a drug problem and spending all the money he had earned as a child. 2. The film was John and Mary. 3. The film is The Tales of Beatrix Potter (1971). What the Russians made of dancing pigs wearing Victorian costume is unrecorded! 4. Lauren Bacall starred in To Have or Have Not (1944) in which she starred opposite Humphrey Bogart whom she married the following year. 5. Al Jolson was born in St Petersburg (now Leningrad), Russia in 1886. 6. Mia Farrow. 7. The first film in Dolby Stereo was Ken Russell’s Lizstomania in 1975. 8. The film was Yentl in 1983. 9. (a) Ringo Starr; (b) Paulene Stone, a model; (c) Novelist Roald Dahl; (d) Photographer David Bailey; (e) Prince Aly Kahn. 10. Not a lot of people know that but it was Michael Caine in Alfie (1966); 11. £15,000; 12. Russian. British TV Sitcom Quiz: 1b; 2 True; 3c; 4c; 5b; 6 False; 7c; 8b; 9c; 10 True, a play entitled ‘The Banana Box’ by Eric Chappell; 11a; 12a; 13 False, it was a beagle; 14c; 15a

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