Interview | Joanne Mallon

Friday, 19th January 2024

Radio Harrow’s very own Hannah Vatani  got an exclusive chance to catch up with the one of the UK’s most experienced life and career coaches, Joanne Mallon.

In this interview, Joanne talks about her books and how you can make more from life.

From free and flexible technical Skills Bootcamps, available in a range of subjects, to courses covering essential skills such as numeracy and English, there’s something to suit everyone’s goals for 2024.

A big advocate for adult learning is Joanne Mallon, one of the UK’s most experienced career coaches.

Joanne is supporting the Skills for Life campaign, on a mission to empower people to prioritise personal development and redirect some of their spare time into learning new skills in the new year.

You can find more about Joanne on her official website.

Interview | Marty Rose chats with Team Tuesday

Wednesday, 17th January 2024

Harrow Today’s Team Tuesday were joined in studio by station legend, Marty Rose.

Marty Co-Founded Radio Northwick Park (Now Radio Harrow) in 1971. Marty tells us some stories about what the radio station was like back in the 70s.

You can listen to the interview here

You can read more about our history and heritage here: https://www.radioharrow.org/about/

Photo taken by Zhin Kader

Interview | Tom Kilworth at Trinity Orchestra

Monday, 15th January 2024

In our latest podcast, Brian Rose speaks with composer and conductor Tom Kilworth from Trinity Orchestra ahead of their first concert event of 2024.  The interview provides a fascinating insight into life behind the scenes, with the concert taking place on the 20th January.

From the official website:

Trinity Orchestra’s first concert of 2024 opens with The Noonday Witch – a captivating and atmospheric symphonic poem by Antonín Dvořák, inspired by a poem by Czech folklorist Karel Jaromír Erben.

With a similarly full Romantic harmonic structure and a glimpse of the horizons of modern music, American composer Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony set her apart as a prominent female composer at the turn of the twentieth century. Beach drew inspiration work from simple old English, Irish and Scottish melodies, thus the subtitle ‘Gaelic’.

The centrepiece of this concert, will be a performance of one of the best-loved and most often-performed works of all time: Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2. As soloist we are thrilled to welcome multi-award-winning pianist Thomas Kelly, currently studying at the Royal College of Music. The concerto is full of romantic melodies and lush harmonies and, with this work, audiences and critics alike would continue to look to Rachmaninov as an example of the exciting and wondrous possibilities Romanticism could provide.

You can listen to the interview below:

Interview | Technicians: We Make The Difference

Saturday, 13th January 2024

Technicians: We Make the Difference  is a new campaign about raising awareness of the roles technicians do. It follows a survey conducted by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation which found only 5% of young people know a lot about jobs a technician can do.

Sarika speaks to Tyler Terry-Wallace, a Simulation Technician at Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital.  He’s one of the people in these hidden technician roles. In his job he uses a very expensive manikin (a jointed model of the human body, used in medical training) to create real-life scenarios within a mock-up ward for doctors and nurses to train with.

Sonic The Hedgehog returns to Radio Harrow

Wednesday, 3rd January 2024

We’re back!

Radio Harrow presents an all-new Sonic themed Special to celebrate all the anniversaries and highlights of the franchise in 2023 with returning hosts Andrew & his brother Tom.

It is a sequel to hit Sonic Special 3 and contains a full-length audio drama title Case of the missing Rose – where Sonic & Tails go on a rescue mission to find their friend Amy Rose who’s been kidnapped! Question is, who did it?

Just like the previous specials the show contains Talk topics, a Quiz, Songs, and an original audio drama. Listen Thursday evening from 8.

Poster artwork by Sonic IDW comic artist ARQ

Sonic Jamz: Look-A-Like (KB remix) Ft.PaiDA is also featured in the Special.

The audio drama voice cast includes:

Andrew Hamblin as Sonic the Hedgehog, Cream the rabbit, Jet the Hawk, Orbot, Big the Cat, Spider-bot and additional voices.

Abluemoon88 as Miles “Tails” Prower and Computer voice

Noah YoshiTails13 as Cheese the Chao

Doom the Meme Queen as Amy Rose

BoyleVoices as Dr Eggman

CashlinSnow as Rouge The Bat

Coryncidence as Tangle the Lemur

Naze_VA as Fang / Nack

TomatoGhost as Storm the albatross

Heavenly_Angie as Wave the Swallow

Vibripple as Jewel the beetle

Emcee Voices as Cubot

KelpVA as Badnik Cameos

Mr.JPG as Badnik Cameos

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End of Year Schedule 2023

Wednesday, 20th December 2023

Radio Harrow is proud to announce an End of Year schedule for the last week of 2023.

With usual programming continuing till Christmas Eve prior to the long weekend, the schedule follows an amended timetable for the period between Christmas and the end of the year.

What can you expect?

The festivities get underway from the 24th, with Steve Johnston and Nick Edwards making their return to the airwaves with ‘Nick and Steve on Christmas Eve’ from 3pm.

From 10am on Christmas Day, the annual Christmas Day edition of Harrow Today goes live from studios in North West London, and you can get in touch with your requests or Christmas Day shoutouts as the day gets underway.

Following Harrow Today, you can hear the Hannukah Hour, and the Carol Show.

Ahead of the New Years Eve celebrations, Stuart Kent has a 2 hour special edition of Sounds from the Shed from 7pm on Saturday 30th December.

Christmas Eve

  • 3pm – 6pm: Nick and Steve on Christmas Eve

Christmas Day

  • 10am – 12noon: Harrow Today
  • 1pm – 2pm: Carol Hour
  • 2pm – 3pm: Best of Harrow Today
  • 3pm – 4pm: Kings Speech

Saturday 30th December

  • 7pm – 9pm: Sounds from the Shed with Stuart Kent

Saturday 31st December

  • 10pm – 1am: Nick and Shrey through to New Years Day

Keep checking back as we continue to update our schedule. 

How can I tune In?

You can listen live to Radio Harrow via radioharrow.org or by telling your smart-speaker to ‘Play Radio Harrow’. And if thats not enough, you can listen back via the Listen Again button on our website.

In the Spotlight | Harrow Today

Monday, 18th December 2023

In this series of reviews, we’re putting some of our shows into the spotlight. Led and run entirely by volunteers, Radio Harrow broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from our studios in Northwick Park, and today, we’re taking a closer look at Harrow Today.

While it has undergone numerous name changes over the years, Harrow Today has always been a team show, and to this day, is the flagship team show for the station. The show can be heard every weeknight from 9pm-10pm with our volunteers putting content together especially for the community in the hours leading up to the show.

While the show is a radio show, it’s been a playground of creativity for our volunteers for years. Each night, a different team take to the production suites and airwaves to bring to life a unique show, while maintaining that distinct local community radio style that listeners have come to associate with the radio station, with unique features like ‘Stu-Possible, ‘Harrow Heartbeat’ and ‘Wendy’s Good News’ all being heard on Harrow Today.

Programme Manager Andrew Bottcher says that the show has 3 main objectives.

Harrow Today has three main objectives; provide local news, updates and community events, entertaining the boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Ealing, and bringing joy to Radio Harrow volunteers.

Being on a Harrow Today show is all about having fun and meeting new people. Many volunteers come from all walks of life. You become a real family, while giving back to the community

How To Listen

You can listen to Harrow Today every night during the week from 9pm via radioharrow.org or by telling your smart-speaker to ‘Play Radio Harrow’. And if thats not enough, you can listen back via the Listen Again button on our website.

Fancy getting involved?

We are always looking for new volunteers! Head on over to our Recruitment page to find out more about how to join Radio Harrow!

Interview | Anjeli Shah speaks with Sarah McCulloch

Monday, 11th December 2023

Sarah McCulloch MSc is an autistic occupational therapist with experience across a range of acute mental health, community, and paediatric settings. She currently works as an NHS manager in North London. Her lived experience as an autistic adult and her professional experiences of meeting unidentified autistic people in every service in which she worked led her to found the Autistic Empire in 2018. The Autistic Empire is an autistic social organisation built by and for autistic adults to form a community based on autism as a civic identity and to provide practical tools and services for all autistic people. Sarah’s increasing professional focus is the importance and development of positive autistic identity. Sarah is based in London, UK.

During the show Anjeli and Sarah discussed her journey in life towards being diagnosed with autism, her previous work as an occupational therapist and her current work as an NHS manager. They spoke about what autism means, the biggest challenges faced by autistic people, the importance of language and identity and about the organisation she set up Autistic Empire, and about autistic pride which the organisation sponsors.

Autistic empire Instagram:
https://instagram.com/autisticempire?igshid=YTQwZjQ0NmI0OA==
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/autisticempire

@autistic_empire on X

Interview | Brian Rose chats to the cast of Snow White

Monday, 11th December 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahead of the showing at Harrow Arts Centre, Brian Rose caught up with the cast for a chat about all things Snow White.

You can listen to the interview here on our website, or from wherever you get your podcasts from.

The Snow White Pantomime can be seen at Harrow Arts Centre from Thursday 14th December through till Thursday 28th December. Ticket information can be found on the official website

Interview | Nick du Gard on RH Sport

Saturday, 9th December 2023

Ahead of the festive football season, RH Sport’s Gary Walker spoke with Nick du Gard about all things Wealdstone FC. (more…)

Our Earth Week 2023

Wednesday, 22nd November 2023

Radio Harrow will be participating in Our Earth Week 2023.

During the week of 20th November 2023, Radio Harrow will be joining other community stations across the country in discussing climate change, the environment, and the impact it has on our day to day lives.
Radio stations from Aberdeen to London are uniting and will feature climate stories, debates, interviews and special features. During the week, listeners will be encouraged to take part in the Our Earth Challenge and will be asked to take one action every day to help cut their climate footprint.
What are you doing to reduce your climate footprint? Tag us in your posts with @radioharrow and #OurEarthWeek.
Broadcasting live to the Boroughs of Harrow, Brent, and Ealing, Radio Harrow is based in Northwick Park Hospital and is led and run entirely by volunteers. You can listen live via your smart speaker by asking your device to ‘Play Radio Harrow’.

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Tree-mendous Timing

Wednesday, 22nd November 2023

As the crisp air heralds the arrival of the holiday season, the question of when to put up the Christmas tree often arises. The debate on the ideal timing for decking the halls has been a longstanding tradition, with no one quite agreeing a set date. While some enthusiasts embrace an early start to infuse their homes with festive cheer, others prefer a more measured approach. So, when is truly the best time to put up a Christmas tree?

Traditionally, there’s a widespread belief that Christmas decorations should adorn homes after Thanksgiving, marking the official start of the holiday season. However, in recent years, this conventional wisdom has been challenged by those who opt for an earlier start, sometimes even as soon as November 1st.

Ultimately, the “best” time to put up a Christmas tree is a matter of personal choice and circumstances. Whether it’s early November, after Thanksgiving, or closer to Christmas Eve, what truly matters is the joy, warmth, and togetherness that a decorated tree brings into homes.

Make sure to share your Christmas tree with us on @radioharrow on your socials!

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