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Radio Starlion - Volunteers |
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Radio Starlion - Volunteers |
Volunteers One and All
Radio Starlion is run entirely by volunteers from all walks of life, whose aim is to make a patient's stay in hospital as happy as possible. Our regular broadcasts are very much a team effort, of which the programmes you hear on your bedside radio are the end-product. Request collectors have a vital role in promoting the radio service around the hospital and in giving us a direct line of contact with our listeners. Maintaining an efficient record library system means that in most cases your favourite song can be found within seconds.
The volunteers on each "shift" ensure that singles, LPs, CDs and cassettes are filed in the appropriate section in correct alphabetical or numerical order. Others share the never-ending task of inputting new titles and artists into the computer system.
We are also very fortunate to have a number of our volunteers providing invaluable help behind-the-scenes with production, publicity, hospital liaison, engineering and maintenance.
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Our Team of Volunteers
Alan Swallow
Station Manager.
Former President of the Stockport Lions Club.
Shows: Stepping into Sunday, Country Roads.
Web Site: www.alanswallow.co.uk
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Phil Lawrence
Radio Starlion's longest serving volunteer.
Show: Afternoon Delight.
Cyril Ordman
Show: Afternoon Delight.
Alan Ovington
Studio Engineer.
Shows: Breakfast Show, The Saturday Express, The Power Hour.
Born: 1966, in South Shields.
Day Job: Involves Software and Electronic Design.
Hobbies: Include Radio (of course), swimming, hiking and bad jokes.
Web Site: www.alanovington.com
Email:
George Raywood
Hospital Volunteer.
Dave Carter
Shows: The Wednesday Wireless, Freetime.
Mike Wallbank
Shows: Friday Favourites, The Show That Time Forgot, The Fifteen Minute Month.
Born: 1959, Ashton-under-Lyne, but I've always lived in Denton.
Day Job: Feature writer for provincial newspapers.
Favourite assignment: Writing the 'Summer Wine Country' tourist guide including interviews with the Last of the Summer Wine cast on location in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire.
Hobbies: Radio (of course), music (most kinds, listening not playing), walking, cycling, voluntary work with local Church & Scout Group.
Life before Starlion: I was with the hospital radio station in Tameside (now closed) for 12 years. Recently I have launched a web site recalling the station's golden era: www.8townsradio.co.uk.
Email:
Ralph Connell and Ray Whiteoak
Show: The Saturday Express
Live commentaries from Stockport County's home matches.
Jeanette Howlett
Show: The Saturday Supplement.
Born: 1958, an Essex girl (but only by accident of geography!)
Day job: Medical Secretary
When not working: I explore as many lands and as much music as I can, and make as many puns as I can.
Email:
Andy Guy
Show: Good News.
Richard Smith
Show: The A to Z of Pop.
Web Site: www.theatozofpop.co.uk
Ray Oxley
Show: The Comedy Hour.
Born: Newcastle upon Tyne, long before calendars kept track and dinosaurs walked the earth.
Hobbies: Main interests outside the studio are cricket and trying to visit all the whiskey distilleries in Scotland.[ Main Menu | Back | Next Page ]