Hospital Radio Plymouth

Hospital Radio Plymouth has served its local community since 1969, with volunteers providing music and company for patients and listeners across the city. Its hospital connection is expressed through personal requests and conversations as well as its name. Familiar songs and presented programmes give people a shared listening experience, whether they are on a ward or listening elsewhere in Plymouth.

Request Line programmes carry choices and dedications from the audience, while volunteer ward visitors collect requests and talk with patients about their music. The wider schedule includes breakfast and daytime entertainment, news, quizzes and specialist selections such as soul and country. Power Hour adds a particularly upbeat musical strand to that combination of company and information.

The station's schedule gives its volunteers distinct musical roles. Jo Lloyd presents the Mid Morning Show and Reeling in the Years, while Sue Crowhurst's early-evening programme includes Storybook. Dawn Cawley's Curtain Up and Martin Timms's Saturday Night at the Movies add theatre and screen-oriented titles to the line-up. Cory Galbraith hosts The Jazz Club, and Steve Glanville and Jill Bright appear together on Request Line. Songs of the Westcountry provides a further regional strand among the broader music selections.

The station is supported through donations and the work of people in both presenting and behind-the-scenes roles. Fundraising, administration and audience liaison are part of the same effort as making programmes. This volunteer and charitable foundation keeps Hospital Radio Plymouth closely connected to the hospital community while allowing its music and local voices to reach a broader city audience.