The Sound of Sunday has staged many outside broadcasts over the years.  This Sunday’s Extra Time remembers two of them.

Firstly the day back in 1992 of the Staff Fun Day, held on the playing fields outside the then Park Prewett hospital.   Other HRB presenters of the time joined in our coverage and you can hear about 10 minutes of that on this weekend’s show.

Then there was the show we did live from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2016.  We went live to the main venues around the park, ending up at the top of the Orbit with a spectacular view of London.

Hear the best bits of both of these outside broadcasts, this Sunday from 4pm.

It was described at the time as “the best hospital radio event ever”.  The weekend of the final Hospital Broadcasting Association regional meeting took place in Guernsey in May 1986.  The Sound of Sunday went along too and recorded a special show in and around the Peninsula Hotel where the weekend was based.

Our much missed friend and colleague Paul Le Feuvre was there along with hospital radio volunteers from stations in the south of England and members of Jubilee Radio, the island’s hospital radio station.

The highlights of that special weekend are this weekend’s 30th anniversary memory and you can hear some of the show again from 4pm.

The Sound of Sunday Goes to Guernsey, Sunday 14 February 4pm

We’re planning a brand new segment of the show that will initially run monthly starting in April.

The Sound of Sunday Community Hour will be there to feature local groups and organisations that want to give themselves extra promotion on the radio, and possibly promote their events as we come out of lockdown and things start to get going again.

The first show will be on the first Sunday in April and then on the first Sundays of May, June and July at 4pm.

If you would like to get involved, email us now at community@hrbasingstoke.co.uk 

It’s not the first time the show has done something like this.  17 years ago The Spare Time Slot was a similar feature and following an appearance by the Basingstoke Male Voice Choir, they organised a concert for HRB and raised nearly £700.

It was a 39 episode cartoon series based on the book The King’s Fifth and shown on BBC One in the late 80s.  Phillip Schofuield subsequently led the nation in a sing-a-long after sending out songsheets to the theme song.  Mysterious Cities of Gold took on cult status after it was shown on TV and in the 1990s we produced a radio adaptation using episode summaries on one of the many MCoG websites.

To accompany that, we produced a 30 minute programme talking about the story the series was based on and some of the myths and legends surrounding it.  We also played some of the brilliant music from the soundtrack.

That programme Inside The Cities was re-recorded for our 25th birthday 5 years ago and for our 30th, you can hear it again.

Get ready to relive the music and the myths behind one of the best loved cartoon series of its time.

Inside The Cities, 31 January 4pm

The Sound of Sunday is expanding – for 2 months from 31 January the show will continue until 5pm every Sunday, before handing over to the new series of The Sunday Social with Richard Smith.

The extra hour from 4 – 5 will be on the air in the weeks when Residents’ Requests is not and will be filled with favourites such as Myths and Legends, The A to Z of pop Trivia Challenge, That’s Life and more episodes of Superman 1940s Style plus of course some great music.

And there’ll be another chance to hear some of the best of the guests from the last 30 years of the show as part of our anniversary celebrations.

At 5pm, Richard Smith and his team will take over with the second series of The Sunday Social live from Lancashire and across the UK.  The new series will be heard on HRB slightly delayed as it will be on live on hospital radio around the UK from 1 – 3pm, but there will still be the opportunity to hear requests and there will be the usual array of features, chat and entertainment.

So join us for Extra Time from 4pm every Sunday from 31 January.

It’s the show that will be remembered for at least the rest of the year – which will only be a few hours as you can hear it on New Year’s Eve.

An “earworm” is defined as music that when you hear it, it will stay in your head for hours and hours. For two years, The Sound of Sunday ended each show with a song taken from the list of top 100 earworms. This one-hour compilation plays some of those songs.

From Baltimora to Carly Rae Jepson, there’s lots of well-known hits on the list plus a few surprises and tunes you may not have heard for a while.

Hear the show on New Year’s Eve at 10am and prepare to remember it for at least the rest of the year!

As proved by the recent BBC FOUR series, the TV theme is something to be celebrated, even though we usually only hear less than a minute of it. From sporting events to great drama, this special plays some of those themes, in full, which will no doubt provoke memories of our TV past.

From sporting events such as London 2012 to drama and children’s TV, the TV theme has played a part in all our memories, perhaps more than we may think.

Hear some of our great TV themes, some of which have already been played as part of our Memory Makers or Random TV features in our hour-long special.

Sunday 27 December 3pm

The Sound of Sunday Big Christmas Show is back for 2020 with over 4 hours of entertainment launching Christmas on HRB on Sunday afternoon.

The show will sound a bit different this year as there are no ward visits so no pulling of crackers around the wards, and there is no panto to for the staff to win tickets to see, but there is plenty else promised, and there will still be plenty of cracker pulling.

Former HRB member Martin Parsons will be talking about his new Doctor Who DVD that is out this Christmas.

HRB’s Vernon Pearce will be talking about his Christmas Day Postcard from Spain.

Richard Smith will be talking about the plans for this year’s New Year’s Eve Big Broadcast.

Michele Monro, daughter of Matt Monro will be talking about the brand new 4 part documentary about her father that can be heard on HRB this Christmas to mark what would have been his 90th birthday.

And finally, there will be crackers – The Great Christmas Cracker Dash this year will be with the residents and staff of St Thomas Care Home in Basingstoke who will be pulling crackers, telling the jokes and then hearing their requests.

Finally, the 112,000th request to be played on HRB will be revealed.

It’s not quite the same as usual but it will still be four and a half hours of fast moving Christmas entertainment.

Sunday 13 December 1pm on HRB.

A regular feature on the show over the last few years has been the Milestone Request Replay – where we take one of HRB’s milestone requests and play it again, sometimes including the original clip of it being played the first time round or the person who originally played it coming back to introduce it again.

We thought we would put them together into a Bank Holiday Special, so you can join us on August Bank Holiday at 1pm for our Milestone Request Replay Special.

We’ll start with request number 1 and go all the way up to request number 111,000 which was played a few weeks ago.  You can hear HRB presenters including Dave Leonard, Steve Fox, Paul Streeter, Neale Adams, Sarah Beattie and Andy K introducing those requests and we’ll finish with Richard Smith introducing the latest as part of The Sunday Social.

The Sound of Sunday Milestone Request Replay Special, 1pm Monday 31 August 

We will once again bring listeners all the action and drama of the last day of the Premier League season.

All 10 final games will kick off at 4pm on Sunday 26 July and even though the title has already been won by Liverpool, there are European places up for grabs and the relegation battle will also go down to the final round of matches.

It will all be covered during our annual last day special which will start at 3.30.  There will be previews of all the matches and we’ll tell the story of the afternoon as things unfold.

As the programme is being broadcast from our remote studio, there won’t be reports from every game but we’ll do our best to tell the story of the afternoon and highlight all the action.

Neil Ogden’s Sound of Sunday: Last Day of the Premier League Sunday 26 July from 3.30pm