Durham Hospitals Radio (DHR) were delighted to win two awards at the National Hospital Radio Awards in Winchester on 13th April 2024: Bronze for Best Programme with multiple presenters: The Sugar and Spice Show with Eileen, Nicky and Dawn The Innovation Award: Tony Taulbut, our amazing engineer. This award recognises those behind the scenes, and celebrates pushing the boundaries using innovative, novel or pioneering ideas.…
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Visit to Radio Sunderland for Hospitals
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Durham Hospitals Radio paid a visit to our friends at Radio Sunderland for Hospitals (RSH).
Our chairman Terry is in the middle with Bill Bowes from RSH on the left and Mike Hardy, our Secretary, is on the right. Eileen our fundraising manager also met Pauline Phillips and Yvonne Dyer from RSH.
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Studio visit from The Shakespeare Temperance Trust
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We were delighted to show Georgina Wilczek, one of the trustees from the Shakespeare Temperance Trust, around our studio this week so that she could see the new switching equipment that the Trust generously gifted to us. The Shakespeare Temperance Trust is a charity body who award funds to community groups and charities that serve the people of Durham City. Durham Hospitals Radio is a registered charity staffed entirely by…
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Volunteers wanted!
by PaulG •
We are looking for volunteers to help run Durham Hospitals Radio. Because of safeguarding rules all volunteers must be 18 years old or over. If you would like information on how to become a member of the DHR Team, please contact Mike Hardy at the studio on on 0191 333 2168. Leave a message and Mike will get back to you Volunteering…
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Expansion of the A&E department at the University of North Durham
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Work has started on the expansion of the A&E department at the University of North Durham. Dryburn House opposite the A&E, will be demolished to make way for the 2 storey extension. Dryburn House built in 1824 was once the home of railway baron William Lloyd Wharton (1789-1867), who ran the North East Railway Company. Dryburn House was later…
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Free wi fi
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You can now access free wi fi in the University Hospital of North Durham – see the poster below for details…. That means you can listen to Durham Hospitals Radio at www.dhradio.org.uk
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The History of Hospital Radio
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Durham Hospitals Radio is part of a story that can trace its beginnings back almost a century to the United States. The earliest known hospital radio station is thought to have begun its operation in the Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington D.C. in May 1919. With the world just returning to peace following the…