The Sound of Sunday on HRB

The date of the special show recorded in August at the Alton Classic Car Show has been confirmed as Sunday 1 December.

The 2 hour show will include interviews with many of the car owners as well as live music and entertainment from some of those who performed on the day.

The Alton Classic Car Show is one of the biggest events in Alton’s year and attracts thousands of visitors to the High Street not to mention 200 cars.

The show will be accompanied by a video which wil be published at the same time.

Series 34 of The Sound of Sunday will launch at 1.30 on Sunday 8 September.

The show returns for its 2024-25 run with a new competition called “1 in 3 Who’s it Gonna Be” plus the return of Spot The Ball.

All the other regular features return including Random Vinyl with more listeners choosing a random number from HRB’s record library each week.

Residents’ Requests will also being part of the show from 4 – 5pm.

The new series will include another BIG Christmas Show in December and will continue to reflect the Sunday afternoon sport, in particular the Premier League and WSL games that happen during the show.

The regular soap Huntsford will also continue to be heard on the show every week.

At some point very soon, the show will be back on DAB as HRB returns to DAB+ radios broadcasting as a local hospital health and wellbeing community radio station.

The series will run right through to next summer on HRB every Sunday at 1.30pm.

An edition of The Sound of Sunday Summer Show will be broadcast on the community radio station for Alton.  On Bank Holiday Monday 26 August, Wey Valley Radio will broadcast a specially edited version of the show that was first heard on Hospital Radio Basingstoke earlier in the month.

The special edit will include all the interviews plus the conga round the public gardens which wasn’t heard in the HRB version.

The Alton Lions Safari in the Park took place in the public gardens in Alton in June and has been an annual event in Alton for 14 years.

The Sound of Sunday Summer Show will be returning for a 2024 series this summer, broadcasting from a variety of local events around Basingstoke.

The show, which replaces the usual live Sunday afternoon show, has already recorded the 3 shows,  at the annual Basingstoke Transport Festival, the Old Basing Carnival and the Alton Lions Safari in the Park.

The show will also promote other things going on in Basingstoke over the summer.  The show will air for 90 minutes from Sunday 11 August for 3 Sundays and on August Bank Holiday Monday at 3pm.

If you have information about an event we can promote on the show this summer, email us with the details summer@soundofsunday.co.uk

Our annual special covering the final day of the Premier League season is back on Sunday 19 May.

The show will be on air later than normal with reports from all 10 final day games which all kick off at 4pm.

It looks like both the title and the final two relegation places will go down to the last games of the season so itis sure to be an exciting day and a nailbiting one for the fans of those clubs involved.

Join us for the Last Day of the Premier League Season Sunday 19 May from 3.30pm.

The Sound of Sunday was up for an award on 13 April at the National Hospital Radio Awards.  The promo that was produced for the Random Vinyl feature was shortlisted in the Best Station Promotion award.

The feature, which asks someone at random to choose a random number from HRB’s vinyl library, started in 2019, although took an extended break during the pandemic due to the fact that we didn’t have a record player in our remote studio.

The promo may not have won an award, but lots more people were recorded choosing their random vinyl , including Voice of the Balls Alan Dedicoat, and these will be heard in the coming months.

The promo produced to promote our Random Vinyl feature has been nominated for an award.

Random Vinyl asks a different person each week to select a number at random from HRB’s vinyl library and then that track is played – whatever it might be.  Hospital staff and volunteers from other hospital radio stations have chosen numbers as well as people met during HRB’s various outside broadcasts.

The 1 minute long promo is shortlisted for the Best Station Promotion award at the National Hospital Radio Awards and is one of 4 nominations for HRB.  The winners will be announced on Saturday 13 April.

Christmas is well and truly under way on HRB with the traditional start a big success.

The HRB team were live around the wards on Sunday afternoon (10 December) pulling crackers with the staff and patients of the hospital.  They even met a patient who was 100 year old on that day and saw her letter from the King.

Meanwhile more staff were entered into the competition to win a family ticket to the Anvil’s Christmas panto.

Over 20 requests were played for those pulling the crackers.  Adrian on CCU won a goody bag courtesy of Morrisons in Basingstoke in the weekend prize draw and it was Alex who works at the hospital in Winchester who will be taking her family to see the panto next weekend.

Alan Fletcher (Karl Kennedy in Neighbours) and soul singer Alexander O’Neal also joined in the fun as special guests.

The show starts 3 weeks of festive shows on HRB.

After 3 years of not being able to be on the wards and presenting the show remotely, The Sound of Sunday BIG Christmas Show is back to it’s traditional format when it returns this year.

The show is a stand alone show, like no other in The Sound of Sunday’s run with special guests, competitions and lots of Christmas Crackers.

This year the show returns on Sunday 10 December at 12pm with special guests including the casts of the local pantos in Basingstoke and Newbury, Richard Smith talking about The A to Z of Pop going Live plys soul singing legend Alexander O’Neal and Neighbours legend Alan Fletcher AKA Doctor Karl Kennedy wil be joining in too.

The Great Christmas Cracker Dash will be back round the wards live plus at Bishopswood Court and Cherry Blossom Manor.

The Sound of Sunday Big Christmas Show live from 12pm on Sunday 10 December.