Lionheart Radio

Lionheart Radio is a community station based in Alnwick, Northumberland. Local volunteers create its output, preparing and presenting programmes, conducting interviews and contributing material about the area. The station broadcasts throughout the day and night, with its familiar 107.3 FM identity linking the service to Alnwick and its surrounding community.

Programme-making is open to different kinds of contribution. Presenters develop their own shows, while people working behind the scenes research subjects, arrange interview guests and edit recorded material. The station also encourages feature reporters to investigate local news and events. Those reports provide an additional source of community information alongside live presentation, allowing people to contribute even when they are not hosting an entire show.

Lionheart's volunteer model brings music and local voices together. Its stated activities range from interviewing guests to covering gigs, with both live and prerecorded contributions forming part of the work. Programmes can reflect a contributor's particular interests while remaining connected with the people and events of Northumberland. Interviews and reports give residents a role as subjects and participants, rather than leaving local identity as simply a place name in the station's branding.

Training and support are offered to new presenters, including people without previous broadcasting experience. Other volunteers help with research, editing and administration. This combination of creative and supporting roles makes the station a route into community media as well as a source of radio programmes. Lionheart's defining feature is the direct involvement of people from the area in making a continuing Alnwick-based service.