park frequency 1386khz website www.radioclatterbridge.co.uk radio clatterbridge is a community hospital radio station based at clatterbridge health park wirral uk . 1 it is also a registered uk charity . 2 the station notably carried the first broadcast interview with the beatles . 3 it is one of the oldest radio stations in the uk . 4 contents 1 history 2 today 3 references 4 external links history edit radio clatterbridge began life as a group of boys from a local youth group . as an aid to providing some vital rest and recuperation the boys decided to visit sick patients at clatterbridge general hospital . their genius was to play them songs at their bedsides using a portable record player . the idea was so popular that it soon became possible to buy permanent gramophones and broadcast the songs back to the patients via a simple land line system . 5 soon the new radio station was broadcasting a number of programmes every week . one of those sunday spin created musical history . presenter monty lister recorded the first broadcast interview with a new up and coming band called the beatles in 1962 . this was marked with a special anniversary reunion in 2002 . 6 as the swinging sixties moved into the seventies so the radio clatterbridge premises moved into larch house . the station remained in these studios for nearly two decades . digital technology was first introduced during the late 1980s as the station now equipped with two studios began playing its first cds before long radio clatterbridge was on the move again . this time it was only temporary . in 1993 the charity made its home near to st john s hospice . the temporary move lasted for nearly a decade . 7 radio clatterbridge finally made its permanent move into the old boiler house in 2001 . the charity s new home had to be developed from scratch . a series of successful community grant applications enabled radio clatterbridge to fit a new studio for the new millennium . 8 new computer equipment in 2003 enabled the station to do something it had never been able to do before . radio clatterbridge now provides a round the clock service to the health park . today edit staffed by about 30 volunteers radio clatterbridge provides an important and unique service to patients and staff at clatterbridge health park . it is heard via a landline service wards throughout clatterbridge hospital clatterbridge centre for oncology . in november 2011 the station began broadcasting to the remainder of the site on 1386 am medium wave . it means that for the first time patients at st john s hospice in the wirral claire house children s hospice and elderholme are able to hear the service along with their visitors and staff . 9 ward visitors regularly collect requests which are played on air . these are supplemented by requests received from patients relatives around the world via the charity s website . radio clatterbridge also receives requests for patients via both facebook and twitter . references edit wirral hospitals nhs trust facilities at clatterbridge hospital radio clatterbridge website beatles bible the beatles first radio interview http www.ben chapman.org.uk images uploads 166053 c76e5828 7d3b f974 013a f59ed8afdc8e.pdf ben chapman mp report to constituents p6 itpas newsletter radio clatterbridge p4 wirral globe beatles back on song radio clatterbridge history http radioclatterbridge.blogspot.com 2002 07 lottery grant success.htm radio clatterbridge lottery grant success radio clatterbridge give us a wave 1 2 external links edit official website bonner andy . give us a wave . radio clatterbridge news . radio clatterbridge . retrieved 3 july 2012 . bonner andy . radio clatterbridge history . radio clatterbridge website . radio clatterbridge . retrieved 3 july 2012 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title radio clatterbridge & oldid 707915444 categories charities based in merseysidehospital radio stationsradio stations in merseysidehidden categories use dmy dates from august 2015use british english from august 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 2 march 2016 at 15 18 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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