Radio Harrow were proud to be the outside broadcaster and live entertainers alongside More than Just a Choir at The Musical Party in the Park, at Kenton Recreation Ground, at Carlton Avenue, Harrow on Saturday, 21st July. The Musical Party in the Park was an event organised by Harrow Parks in order to promote the social and economic importance of maintaining green spaces.
More than Just a Choir gave an excellent performance at the event, which was also attended by the Harrow Association of Disabled People, Rethink Mental Illness, Mind in Harrow, North Harrow Stroke Group, Harrow Mencap, #FixitHarrow, the Friends Groups across Harrow Parks, Voluntary Action Harrow Co-operative, Harrow Youth Parliament and the local branch of the London Fire Brigade.
Listen to the day’s events below!
With the NHS having recently celebrated its 70th Birthday, the London North West University Health Care held their 3rd Open Day, at Northwick Park Hospital on the 7th July 2018.
The day featured local entertainment, as well as a vast array of stalls with information about the various services available at both Northwick Park, and St Marks Hospitals.
Northwick Park is located in North West London, and is home to the hospital of the same name. It is also home to Radio Harrow. Visitors to the Open Day were invited down to the broadcasting studios, located in the Hospital, from where the radio station broadcasts every day.
With thanks to Charles Biggie for photos from the Open Day.
Got any old small appliances or unused mobile phones lying about the house? Harrow is piloting an exciting new recycling programme for waste electrical and electronics across the borough. Wendy Sherer got all the details when she sat down with Daniel Lester (Harrow Council), Emma Hall and Maninder Khunkhun (West London Waste Authority).
Radio Harrow’s David Reece met with Emma Cooper, who leads the Carers Project at Harrow Mencap, during Carers Week (June 2018). Emma explains to Radio Harrow about what caring for others involves and the effectiveness of ‘Fruitful Tuesday’s,’ (involving sessions on Mindfulness for Carers on the third Tuesday of each month), among much more. Harrow Mencap is a seventy-year-old local charity which helps people with disabilities and their direct carers. Listen to the interview here!
RH’s Anna Trevers Speaks to Neil Parker from The Bridge working in partnership with Rethink Mental Illness. Discussing the service and focused on their new work engaging clients through board games and building their skills to cope with mental illness. Neil assisted with setting up The Bridge, helping people to gain confidence interacting with others through learning how to play board games. Here their interview below. Neil’s advise is to find out what counselling and therapy might be available if needed.
Radio Harrow marked the third Local Radio Day with a special day of shows ahead of the Bank Holiday Weekend. With programming from the studios, and out in the community, the station joined stations up and down the country in celebrating Proper Local Radio, on a day which is now a firm fixture in the Radio Harrow calendar.
Thanks to @DJReece82 @wendysuesherer for breakfast this morning! Missed any of it? Catch up online and we’ll have a podcast out soon! #localradioday @localradioday pic.twitter.com/mlUB6Fyg86
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
David Reece and Wendy Sherer served up breakfast, the radio show variant, from 8am from studios in Northwick Park, with an exclusive interview with the new Mayor of Harrow, Kareema Kairul, who began her term in office the previous day.
During the morning, presenters Nick Edwards, and Shrey Puranik went on a ‘bus tour’ in the locality, checking in with the studio team at regular intervals.
@shreypuranik and @MrNickDJ are off touring #Harrow for @localradioday! @WendySueSherer says they look like they are off for the first day at school! Lol! @radioharrow pic.twitter.com/TUELVCsG3Q
— David Reece (@DJReece82) May 25, 2018
At midday, Brian Rose celebrated Heroes from Harrow in a special hour long show.
Celebrate the Heroes from Harrow with Brian Rose in a #localradioday special! pic.twitter.com/LscaLTXssv
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
This was followed by a special Walking Tour, curated by Kaye Holland and Sarika Unadkat, which was made especially for Local Radio Day. You can listen back to the Walking Tour in our podcast below:
Following Walk This Way, Charles Biggie was on air with Harrow Goes Pop!
Charles is on air with Harrow Goes Pop! Listen in via https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 pic.twitter.com/Z2r0gDqGlS
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
It wouldn’t be Local Radio without local sports, and Noah Abrahams from the Sports Show went on an exclusive behind the scenes tour of The Vale, the home of Wealdstone FC:
Nick and Shrey, fresh from their adventures in Harrow, then took over the reigns at drive, with a special interview with the Heath Robinson Museum ahead of a new exhibition opening at the Museum.
At 7pm, Anna Trevers broadcast a special edition of The Basement Tapes, with the show being made especially for Local Radio Day!
The brilliant @AnnaTrevers has a special #localradioday edition of the Basement Tapes right now! pic.twitter.com/3NYn4TGrrv
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 25, 2018
Missed any of our @localradioday fun yesterday? You can listen back online at https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #localradioday pic.twitter.com/EVeqMxzbNp
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) May 26, 2018
Keep checking this page for more highlights over the coming days!
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For the third consecutive year, Radio Harrow will be joining radio stations across the country on Friday 25th May 2018 and celebrating Local Radio Day with a special day of programming.
Launched in 2016 by the UKRD, Local Radio Day is a national event, involving radio stations from across the UK, aimed at undertaking events, tours and community activities all focussed on representing the unique nature of “proper local radio” and the impact it has within the communities it serves.
Founded in April 2015, Radio Harrow has been at the heart of activity in Harrow, with live outside broadcasts, specialist programming, in-studio guests, as well as being a constant presence in the community. Run and led by volunteers, with live shows every day of the week, the radio station recently celebrated its third birthday.
Join David Reece & Wendy Sherer for a special Radio Harrow Breakfast Show and get your Friday off to the perfect start at 8am. The duo will be joined in the studio by the Mayor of Harrow from 9am, and will also be checking in with Harrow at various points during the morning. The fun continues into the afternoon, with shows from across the Borough.
During the day, we’ll be checking in with some of Harrow’s most well known and well loved places. A special walking tour will air in the afternoon, covering famous locations across the borough.
As part of the on air programming, the first hour of the Radio Harrow Roadshow will be broadcast live from Northwick Park Hospital Social Club at 6pm. Later on in the evening, the radio station’s very own House Band, The Volunteers, will be playing at the event, along with a DJ set from Steve Pinchen.
| Time | Show |
| 8:00 | Breakfast with David Reece & Wendy Sherer |
| 12:00 | Harrow Heroes with Brian Rose |
| 13:00 | Walk This Way! With Sarika Unadkat & Kaye Holland |
| 14:00 | Charles Biggie |
| 15:00 | Sports Show special with Noah Abrahams |
| 16:00 | Live at Drive with Nick Edwards & Shrey Puranik | 18:00 | Radio Harrow Roadshow Live from Northwick Park Hospital |
| 19:00 | The Basement Tapes with Anna Trevers |
You can get in touch with the Radio Harrow team during Local Radio Day by any of the following ways:
Radio Harrow are proud to promote volunteer Biba’s recent interview with Neil Gore, from Townsend productions, about a play coming to town – We Are The Lions Mr Manager. The play about an industrial dispute that happened in Willesden in 1976; it made history, and the strike leader Jayaben Desai was named one of the 100 most influential women of the last 100 years.
The show can be viewed on May 7th, 2018 at the Tara Theatre, Earlsfield, and May 9th, 2018 at Waterman’s Theatre, Brentford.
Radio Harrow is proud to announce that Thursday, 19th April was our third birthday.
As a charity aimed at producing health and wellbeing content which is broadcast to the community, Radio Harrow have achieved a lot, following the merger of Radio Northwick Park with Harrow Community Radio.
We’ve been nominated for around ten awards at the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA) awards ceremony, and won one. We’ve had 3,500 song requests from patients within Northwick Park Hospital, around 11,000 web listeners per year, and 270 hours of content has been streamed from our Mixcloud Page. Many of our circa seventy-five volunteers are enthused by the station’s new image, producing topical content covering a range of topics such as healthy living, patient stories and dedications on our new weekly team shows, The Saturday Brunch and Harrow Today.
The charity also has much to boast about going forward; aside from hosting another Brains of the Borough Quiz, we broadcast live from the Pinner Wheelbarrow Race on St George’s Day in April 2018. We’re also frequently involved in numerous community events and would love to get stuck in with your next event whenever you would like.
We’ve added some podcasts in which we’ve reflected on our successes over the last three years!
Our 2017 highlights:
Our 2016 highlights:
Our 2015 highlights:
For the 4th consecutive year, Radio Harrow were present at the annual Wheelbarrow Race in Pinner. The day, which featured on 22nd April 2018, was held as part of the annual St. George’s Day celebrations. With the sun shining across North West London, the day featured campanologists, a great 50’s and 60’s performance from Simply Grey, and the infamous wheelbarrow race. Costume-clad wheelbarrow custodians raced each other down the High Street.
Scouts and Guides about to undertake their renewals of the vows. Listen in on https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/bZ7kM6mL5J
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Getting underway at midday, the first part of the day featured live music from Simply Gray, as well as the annual renewal of the vows for the local Scouts and Guides.
Simply Gray entertaining Pinner right now in the glorious sunshine! #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/dpNZy5cqJk
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Ahead of the famous Wheelbarrow Race at 3pm, there was a parade of the competing teams, with all contestants and their wheelbarrows walking down the high street. The race itself was broadcast live on Radio Harrow, with various commentary teams situated across the race track.
Our @mcnab_ is standing by to bring you live commentary from the bottom of Pinner High Street. Listen live at https://t.co/MCXY2eQGL0 #StGeorgesDay2018 pic.twitter.com/3psz20SoZG
— Radio Harrow (@radioharrow) April 22, 2018
Radio Harrow’s David Reece was at the finish line keeping listeners and members of the spectating public informed as the competing teams completed the race. The winning team were Carbos, and the team with the best costume, were ‘The Things’, who received their awards from the Mayor of Harrow, and boxing superstar, Elliot Matthews respectively.
Radio Harrow’s Events Coordinator Brian Rose described the day as a real success. We’ve captured the highlights, including the speech from Harrow’s current Mayor Margaret Davine, in our video below:
You can listen back to our live commentary of the day on Radio Harrow’s Listen Again. We’ll be adding more photos to this page over the next few days!
With thanks to: Ben P, David R, Steve J, Steve P, Nick E, Sarika U, Tony M, Stuart K, Brian R,
John S, Hansa V, Shrey P, Malcolm C, Mike L, and Atul R.
Led and run entirely by volunteers, Radio Harrow are always on the lookout for new volunteers. Whether the broadcasting side of a radio station appeals to you, or if you want to contribute to the patient befriending services that the charity provides, you can find out more here.
Charles was in Amersham for Record Store Day 2018, an international event when people get together in record shops and purchase both old and new releases. Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 to celebrate independent record shops. Five hundred special releases have been issued this year, primarily aimed at music enthusiasts and mainstream music listeners alike.
He joins Graham Campbell of The Record Shop in Amersham. Graham’s partaken in the day for seven years and identifies that the day has got bigger by the year.
Listen to Charles’ full interview with Graham below:
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