10 Radio

10Radio is a community-owned station based in Wiveliscombe, serving the Ten Parishes of West Somerset and the surrounding area. Its rural home includes communities such as Milverton, Stawley, Clatworthy and Huish Champflower. Local residents developed the idea in 2004, followed by temporary broadcasts in 2005 and 2006 and the launch of a permanent service in January 2008.

The organisation is a community interest company run by volunteers, with its assets committed to community benefit. Members can be people who live, work, study or train in the area, as well as others who share its interests. This structure makes the station a local undertaking, with contributors involved in both the programmes and the work behind them.

Breakfast programmes provide regular live appointments, including the Sunshine Breakfast Show and Manic Monday Breakfast. The Community Show sits alongside music, comedy and conversation, while repeated programmes and the station's Jukebox fill other parts of the week. The Ben Hallows' Show and The Colin Heath Wireless Show bring individual presenters' choices into the schedule.

Specialist strands include Folk, Roots and Branches, 10Reggae and 10Radio World Music. Mike Padden presents Sounds Like the 70s, while Sounds Like the 80s revisits charts with different members of the presenting team. Songwriters Circle and Off the Dial with Warne Slippaz offer further contrasts. Training and opportunities to make programmes connect this musical range with the original aim of giving the villages around Wiveliscombe a shared, locally controlled voice.