The Sound of Sunday on HRB

Our Sunday afternoon soap Huntsford will continue in 2025.

The show, which can be heard every Sunday 3.20 followsx the lives of the people of a market town somewhere in England and has been part of The Sound of Sunday suince May 2022.

Series 4 of the programme, originally made for Huntingdon Community Radio will start on the first show of the new year on Sunday 5 January with series 3 concluding with a double episode the week before.

The Sound of Sunday will be on HRB throughout Christmas with lots of specials.

Sunday 15 December 12 – 6pm BIG Christmas Show

Sunday 22 December 1.30 – 4.30pm

Monday 23 December 4 – 6pm Great Christmas Cracker Dash at Cherry Blossom Manor

Tuesday 24 December 4 – 6pm Great Christrmas Cracker Dash at Bishopswood Court

Christmas Day 3 – 4.30pm BIG Christmas Show guests

Boxing Day 5 – 6pm The Anvil Christmas Panto at 30

Sunday 29 December 2.30 – 5pm including the latest from the Premier League

We’re all set for our 6 hour Big Christmas Show which will start Christmas on HRB.

We’ll be joined by special guests from local pantos and shows and there’ll be loads of cracker pulling around the wards.

• Julie Jones from the hospital staff panto talking about this year’s production;
• Tyger Drew-Honey from Sleeping Beauty at The Anvil
• Grace Kelly Miller from Dick Whittington at the Corn Exchange in Newbury
• Some of the cast of Cinderella at The Hexagon in Reading
• Christmas crackers around the wards
• Requests for Rowan Lodge
• 1 In 3 Who’s it Gonna Be and Spot The Ball
• Panto ticket competition
• Richard Smith talks about his new show and the return of The Sunday Social
• Rudolph Walker (Patrick Trueman from Eastenders) talks about life in Albert Square as we head towards the show’s 40th anniversary

6 hours of fast moving festive fun and features from 12pm on Sunday 15 December.

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.