Hospital Broadcasting 50th Anniversary

Radio Cavell celebrated fifty years of continuous hospital broadcasting in Oldham on November 29th 2002, with both some special programmes on-air and a special dinner held at the home of the first broadcast, Oldham Athletics Boundary Park.

Photographs by Nigel Hobson.

It was on Saturday 29th November 1952 that a team of volunteers broadcast commentary on the football match Oldham Athletic vs Scunthorpe United to Patients in Oldham Hospitals. Fifty years on the current Radio Cavell team, along with representatives from the NHS Trust, Oldham Athletic Football Club and The Oldham Rugby League Team, meet for a celebration Dinner at the Sponsors Lounge at Boundary Park. As part of the evening we presented a number of our members with long service awards.

We also broadcast a series of extracts from the Radio Cavell archive throughout the day, along with a special programme reviewing 50 years of Hospital Radio in Oldham. We will be shortly adding a more in depth report of the anniversary celebration.

50 Years of hospital radio in Oldham documentay At 8pm on the 29th November 2002, we broadcast a special programme reviewing the 50 years of hospital broadcasting in the town. As well as tracing the major events of our history, the programme contains much material from the Radio Cavell archives. Click on the speaker below to hear an on-line version of this programme.
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