BBC Radio Gloucestershire

BBC Radio Gloucestershire serves a county of cities, market towns and countryside on the edge of several English regions. Gloucester and Cheltenham are prominent centres within an area that also includes smaller towns and rural communities. A county station can follow a story across their boundaries and still recognise that smaller communities have subjects of their own.

BBC Local Radio combines reporting and conversation with other parts of a mixed programme, including sport where it matters locally. Questions about services, local decisions and the cultural calendar give listeners a reason to hear the county discussed on its own terms. Programmes can also be shared within the BBC local network; local reporting sits beside regional conversations and entertainment heard by a wider audience.

Secret Gloucestershire explores the county through distinctive places and stories, including Cheltenham's lost pubs, a surviving tall ship at Gloucester Docks and efforts to restore a railway branch line. Need To Know Gloucestershire supplies focused news explanations. The evening schedule also includes Kevin Philemon's programme celebrating Black culture in the west through music and conversation, with guest presenters such as Marcus Boothe. Upload and Your Voice provide ways for creative work and community experiences to enter the BBC's local output.

The historical features range from Littledean's unusual clock to a museum preserving First World War battlefield crosses, bringing small local details into longer accounts of the county. Their place beside current reporting gives the station room to consider how Gloucestershire has changed as well as what is happening now. Listener contributions and music provide a different pace between those stories.