Heart Bristol Radio

Heart Bristol combines a broad familiar-song selection with presenter-led entertainment for a Bristol audience. Its regional connection is part of Heart's West Country operation, bringing local information into a programme whose music and major shows are shared across the network.

Bristol and Somerset are grouped together in the broadcaster's public information, with a West Country newsroom contact and bulletins covering local, national and international developments. The regional archive has followed public-safety appeals, rail incidents and political visits to the West Country. These examples indicate the service's wider editorial area around Bristol. Weather, sport and travel-related information complement that reporting rather than turning the station into a continuous speech service.

Bristol's Heart programme carries the network's weekday presenters, including Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden at breakfast, Pandora Christie in the morning and Matt Wilkinson in the afternoon. JK and Kelly Brook bring conversation and songs to the later-day show, while Dev Griffin's evening programme includes The People's Popular Pub Quiz. These are shared Heart productions, with the Bristol edition providing the local audience setting.

The weekend music has several distinct strands. Toby Anstis and Rezzy Ghadjar present Club Classics, Mark Wright and Olly Murs share Saturday Breakfast, and Will Manning counts down the EE Official Big Top 40. Emma Bunton's Sunday evening includes a nineties feature. That combination gives the station a presented pop format with room for dance records, retrospective selections and current chart songs, rather than one unchanging music sequence.