BHBN Radio

BHBN Radio provides entertainment for Birmingham hospitals and the surrounding community. The service identifies a group of partner hospitals that includes Queen Elizabeth, Birmingham Women's, Heartlands, Solihull, Royal Orthopaedic, Good Hope and Midland Metropolitan. Its network identity brings several healthcare sites into the audience of one volunteer-led broadcaster.

Patient stories and music requests sit alongside specialist programmes and football coverage. The station invites listeners to send dedications and voice messages, giving contributors a role beyond choosing a record. Its published programme material also includes country music, while the morning show and other entertainment strands provide broader listening across the schedule.

Freda Cocks founded the Birmingham Hospital Commentaries Association in 1952, beginning with cricket and football commentary for patients at Yardley Green Sanatorium. The first studio was behind the New Inns public house on Moseley Road. A later move took the service to Edgbaston cricket ground in 1966, followed by City Hospital in 1989 and a subsequent home at the Queen Elizabeth site. These moves trace the growth from a commentary project into a broader hospital entertainment network.

Community roadshows take BHBN's work outside the studio, offering a public connection with listeners and potential volunteers. Presentation, production, ward visiting, technical work and communications all form part of its operation. The station's Birmingham roots are therefore expressed both in its broadcasts and in the people who support its service across the area's hospitals.