1983 Year Seven

Radio Top 30

New Years day saw a special Breakfast Radio program for the patients. Presented by Dave Smith & PJ. The show contained recorded New Years messages from the staff.

RADIO HEATHERWOOD ( PROGRAMME INFORMATION ) 

The Saturday crew will be presenting an additional broadcast on Saturday the 1st of Jan 1983 which will be in the morning details as follows:-
6.3o-7.3o am Early morning call ( Welcome to 1983 )
7.3o-8.3o am Continental breakfast request.( Staff requests and staff call. )
8.3o-9.3o am Kids stuff ( breakfast from ward 2 ).
9.3o-lo.oo am Saturday morning extra & closedown.

It's hoped that throughout the days broadcasting times messages from the nursing staff will be available on tape, we will be most grateful to all staff who wish to take part in this idea.( we will be recording these in the near future watch out for the man with the tape recorder ).

SATURDAY EVENING_ BROADCAST.

5.00-6.00 pm The W. D. 2. Show. ( breakfast show repeat )
6.00-7.00 pm The number one singles of 1982.
7.oo-7.3o pm Early evening requests.
7«3o-8.oo pm The Saturday magazine ( Christmas with Tony Hancock ).
8.oo-9.3o pm The Saturday request train ( including Win a Disc ).
9.3o-lo.oo pm Saturday night extra or ( Sisters Revenge ).
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nursing staff for their help and cooperation during the past year, and to wish everyone a healthy, happy and prosperous new year.

SATURDAY CREW.
The Saturday crew are:- Phil Chappell.
Dave Smith. Peter Davidson-Smith( PJ )
 

FOOTNOTE.
BREAKFAST RADIO HAS COME TO HEATHERW0OD ! CHANNEL 3 The sound of happy radio.

New Years Resolution.
Support your hospital DJ'S,buy him a set of braces.

Honeywell Request Form

PJ Through his work at Honeywell got the company to produce 900 request forms. At the same time they came up with the design for the logo which has remained to this day.

Whilst the New years program was being broadcast the library was changed around. This was the first substantial change since the launch of the station. The library rack which was an "L" shape, and difficult to extract the records was changed into a continuous rack. All Change At the Studio's

A new ward opened in January this year; ward 10:one problem for the radio the bed-head units were broadcasting the hospital radio on channel 6.

In March this year; the partridge mixer was moved into the new room (Studio 1).All Change At the Studio's

A new style request form, was printed for the radio by Honeywell who also designed'-the Radio Heatherwood Logo that is used Today. The fete this year was opened by Euro HP Baroness Ellis.

A fortnightly program on Thursday nights called Heatherwood beat, was broadcast. A member of the local constabulary would come and answer questions from patients .

This year will always be remembered by our librarian. A presenter on a Friday night; had over a period of six months pinched over three hundred records, it took a lot of detective work not least of which after every broadcast, each night at 10:30: David would return to the studio to check every single record to see if it was still there. A record would be put in the library from the chart; by the following week it had gone. The culprit was caught red handed with over twenty records, in his bag. We managed to get a few records back ,but some were lost for ever. This individual also made it embarrassing for the station because his mother was a nurse on the wards. He did try to return to the station some years later, but was thwarted by our memories of his name.

 In Sept the first fund raising disco was held in the social hall.

The studio had increased by size but a request for another space at the hospital was requested. 

Saturday's Music In Your Ears

Another of those posters created by PJ and mastered with a stencil set and typewriter.

The poster carried the new program schedule for Saturdays and was hand colored before displaying on the wards.

Radio Magazines Issue 5

The radio magazines were given freely to patients to promote the work of the radio station and the leagues trolley shop.

Issue 5 contained twenty eight pages with information about the hospital and how the radio service was set-up. It also had a request for feedback from Grace Browning Wednesdays, stories about the hospital's diamond jubilee and the story of the diamond jubilee fete, in addition another story from Tim Kingcott Fridays.

A page of thank you letters from former patients was also included. The booklet also carried an article about the trolley shop. The booklet also carried pictures and an article about the Thames valley road safety quiz.

Chairman Ron Mason welcomed readers to this new edition.

Issue 5 Front Cover	Issue 5 Programme Details	Issue 5 Patient Letters
Issue 5 Diamond Jubilee Hospital History	Issue 5 Jubilee Fete

1983 Christmas Eve & New Years Eve

Saturday's Christmas Eve & New Years Eve Program Posters

Another of those posters created by PJ and mastered with a stencil set and typewriter.

The poster carried the new program schedule for Saturdays and was hand colored before displaying on the wards.

These special programs were planned early in the year .As Christmas eve and New Years eve fell on the Saturdays this year, Dave Phil And PJ thought they would give up their holidays to bring something special to the patients.

The following note was posted on all wards:-

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So You Want To Be A Radio Star

Radio Heatherwood's Saturday crew is looking for help with their Christmas and New Year programmes on Christmas eve and New years eve, it is intended to broadcast from 12 midday until 12 midnight on both days, you can help in the following way:-The regular Saturday children's show from ward 2, always features staff answering a few questions about themselves plus introducing some of their own favourite records, what we would like to do. is extend this to all hospital staff for some special dedication programmes over the two days, perhaps you can share an experience that you've had this past year or maybe just tell a joke, or simply say a get well message from yourself, We shall record the interviews to be played and you can have a copy if you wish.

Last year we did this for our new years day breakfast show and the staff who took part were most warmly received by the patients who tuned in that morning.

If you wish to take part and can spare twenty minutes of your time one Saturday between now and the 17th of December contact your Saturday crew on Radio Heatherwood:-Phone no's Ascot 25818 (evenings leave a message any night or phone the D J's at home:-
 P. J. Davidson-smith, Dave Smith
(and remember anyone can take part Doctors, Nurses, Physios, Porters, Clerks).

Don't delay phone today"
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1983 Picture Gallery

That was the year that was
1983