QA Radio

QA Radio is the hospital broadcasting service associated with Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. Operated by Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting, the charity traces its active broadcasts to 1971. Its purpose is to provide entertainment for patients, with presented programmes and music forming the core of the service.

The organisation's history includes studios at St Mary's Hospital and later a return to Queen Alexandra. Support from local authorities, businesses and hospital friends helped fund those moves and renew the facilities. The charity's history connects its programme-making with several generations of support from Portsmouth's healthcare community.

Neil Sherin's Groovefinder Show combines familiar tracks with less-heard album cuts and B-sides. Mike Underdown brings a longstanding interest in jazz to Monday Swing, while Sharon Twine's Feel Good Music Show draws on records from the 1950s onwards. Tony Spence presents Tea Time Treats and Something for the Weekend. Bob Eagle contributes My Kind of Music, drawing on experience in performance and choral music. These individual interests give the hospital service several distinct musical voices.

Its public schedule introduces individual presenters, and football is a separate part of the programme offering. The station also publishes a Smile magazine and maintains contact with listeners through its studio. Voluntary work and fundraising support an organisation whose programmes are shaped around the people receiving care and the community surrounding the hospital.