Millside Hospital Radio

Millside Hospital Radio is the hospital radio service for Mansfield and Ashfield, broadcasting from the Kings Mill Centre. It serves patients within the hospital and people listening from elsewhere in the area. Music and friendly presentation accompany an emphasis on individual listeners, reflected in the station's invitation for patients to become involved in their own hospital service.

A ward-visiting team collects requests and spends time supporting patients. Those personal contacts feed into the programmes made at the studio, while an archive of shows lets listeners return to presented entertainment. The station also maintains a community calendar, connecting its hospital audience with activities in Mansfield and neighbouring Ashfield communities.

Charlie Brown's lunchtime programme includes Number Ones at One, followed in the timetable by Julie Smart's afternoon features. Mark Lindsay and Nathan Jones provide separate morning programmes, and Pam Gibson contributes afternoon entertainment. Corey Rhodes' Music Mix and Mark Underwood's Through the Evening extend the selection later in the day. Mike Thornley's Back to the Good Old Days concentrates on musical memories from the seventies and eighties, adding another identifiable theme to the service.

The charity began in 1989 with help from Nottingham Hospital Radio, whose studios were used to prepare its early programmes. Milly the Bear became the station's emblem after patients and staff chose the design in 1991. Volunteers, fundraising and sponsorship sustain a service that has developed from that modest beginning while keeping personal requests and ward contact central to its work.