Hospital Radio Burnley

Celebrating over '50' years entertaining the community

The official aim and objective of Radio Burnley is "to mitigate the effect and aid in the recovery of the infirmed and all that are hospitalised within the area by providing a broadcast service".

Unofficially, this means that we appreciate that some of you have to stay in bed longer than usual during your recuperation and when you are fed up of watching nurses emptying bed pans and domestics sweeping the floors, god bless them all, we can help by providing a variety of programmes seven day a week 365 days a year.

From it's inception in 1957, at the now defunct Victoria Hospital, we moved during the early seventies to the old chapel in the grounds of Burnley General Hospital and then to studio's adjacent to the concert hall in 1986. We finally found a permenant home underneath the Edith Watson Maternity block in 2007.

Hospital Radio Burnley, in the grounds of Burnley General Hospital and in the shadow of Pendle Hill, famed for its witches, broadcasts a multitude of programmes to satisfy every taste in music and can be received on 'Channel 1' on the Patientline system. There is also a free phone number on the Hospedia (Patientline) terminals from where you can contact the studios directly...*800 (star eight zero zero)

All the staff at Hospital Radio Burnley are volunteers and give their time freely.  

We have recently purchased some brand new equipment to compliment the move. and have two studios equipped to BBC broadcasting standards and under certain conditions and a good following wind, we can broadcast from anywhere on the planet.

We invited our very good friend, Julie Hesmondalgh, to officially open the new studios, which, happened to coincide with our 50th birthday.

In our programme schedules we are concentrating on trying to provide uninterrupted programmes 24 hours a day, 365 days a year........... Stay Tuned