Hospital Radio Basingstoke

Hospital Radio Basingstoke is a health and wellbeing community station with an audience around the hospital and across the town. Its history dates to Mini Radio in 1972, and the broadcaster maintains an archive recording the development of the service. Today its hospital programmes are joined by DAB reception across Basingstoke, making the station part of the town's wider listening life.

Music on Demand gives patients and other listeners an opportunity to choose a favourite song. A Lucky Dip request option offers a different way to take part, while HRB Replay holds recent request programmes and other recorded shows. The published schedule also includes HRB Nightshift, a strand of more relaxing music within a broader selection of volunteer-led entertainment.

Neil Ogden's Sound of Sunday began on 24 March 1991 and marked 35 years on air in 2026. Its features and requests have included Residents' Requests, connecting the programme with people beyond the wards. Ogden also developed It Started with Swap Shop, an audio documentary about Saturday-morning television built from interviews with people involved. Scott Rawlings' reporting from the Basingstoke Transport Festival offers another example of volunteers gathering material outside the studio.

The station covers local activity including Basingstoke Festival and the town's Transport Festival. Volunteers work on air, promote the service on the wards and attend community events, connecting these parts of its remit. Donations, fundraising and sponsorship help maintain an organisation whose local identity is shaped by both hospital participation and town life.