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Radio Starlion - Your Station

The Station Just For You

Each year, the total number of patients hearing our programmes regularly runs into thousands. Stepping Hill has around 900 beds - which gives an indication of our potential audience at any one time.

Programmes are broadcast "live" from the heart of the hospital during the weekend and on most weekday evenings. At other times, we provide a 24 hour sustaining service of music and features.

Local news and sport updates enable listeners in hospital to keep in touch with people, places and events in the Stockport area. We have our own What's On guide and we also feature short stories and poems by members of the Stockport and District Writers' Circle, as well as regular quizzes and competitions - listen out for details!

Every year, Radio Starlion compiles a Patient Requests Chart from the thousands of individual request cards collected from the wards of Stepping Hill Hospital.

Chart hits past and present, songs from the shows, light opera, country, rock, classical, brass, big band and jazz. Radio Starlion aims to cater for all tastes.

Popular Artists include Robbie Williams, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Abba, Celine Dion, Michael Ball, Rod Stewart, The Beatles, Tom Jones, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Ronan Keating, and Madonna.

Just let us know the name of your favourite singer/group/band or the type of music you prefer and we'll do the rest!

Our volunteers regularly go "walkabout" around the wards of Stepping Hill to welcome new listeners to our service and in some cases to renew old acquaintances!

Members of the team like to spend a few moments chatting to each patient, finding out the kind of music they would like to hear, checking headphones and making sure the bedside radio is correctly tuned.

Our volunteers' presence on the wards means our listeners can meet the faces behind the voices - all part of the friendly approach and lively rapport which continues when the station is on air.

If you would like us to pass on your good wishes to a patient or extend a special "Thank you" message to the doctors and nursing staff, please ask for a request card to fill in or call us by dialing *800 on the Patientline telephone. What's more, this call is free. You may also use the request form on our web site.

When the idea of a radio service at Stepping Hill Hospital was first suggested to the Stockport Lions Club (www.stockportlionsclub.org.uk), the club accepted the challenge with enthusiasm and has been proud to continue support and sponsorship of Radio Starlion since its inception in May 1977.

Besides its commitment to Radio Starlion, the club undertakes many other charitable tasks, mainly within the Stockport area. All money raised by the club through its fund-raising events is spent on such causes. No funds raised are directed towards administration expenses; these being met by the club members' own subscriptions.

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Radio Starlion Sound Archive

Here are a few of our treasured interviews, features we have produced for local radio, and some of our entries for the annual Hospital Radio Awards.

Celebrity Interviews

Local and Community Radio

Pure 107.8FM is Stockport's Community Radio Station (www.pureradio.org.uk). When the station launched in 2006, Radio Starlion produced a 30 minute feature which was broadcast on the first Sunday of every the month as part of the "New Horizons" programme.

Hospital Radio Award Entries