Liz brings you stories about Aunt Vera on her weekday afternoon show and they have proved to be a huge hit with listeners. A selection of classic Aunt Vera tales will be added to our Facebook page over the coming weeks including stories about Vera’s visit to the match and her legendary trip on a motorbike. You can read the stories by clicking on the Facebook link on this page, then selecting the notes tab. Make sure you become of fan of Radio Fox at the same time!

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The Classic Rock Show, a popular part of our Monday schedule for many years, has moved to Wednesday evenings with Dave Rowe at the helm. Meanwhile Andy Valentine has returned to Patients Requests for the first time in several years – he’s guesting on the Monday night request fest over the Summer months.

Also on Mondays there’s a new show – Nathan’s Musical Express, where Nathan Lord will be bringing you the latest music news, new releases and classic tracks.

Meanwhile Steve Hack is moving from Sunday mornings to Late Night Radio Fox every Tuesday evening – a bit of a homecoming as Tuesdays are where he started! Steve promises plenty of good music and features every week.

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From Monday 19th April there will be standardised competitions across all five of our weekday Patients Requests shows. At 8.30 each evening there’s the Prize Requests draw, where three requests from the evening ward visit are drawn out the prize hat – all listeners have to do is call in if they hear their name! Then at 8.45 it’s Star Turns, where listeners are invited to identify a mystery artist from a song clip.

There’s plenty of chances to win at weekends too, with four further rounds of Prize Requests, Classic Number Ones on the Brunchbox, as well as the Mystery Voice, Brief Introductions and What’s The Word challenges.

In addition to the regular competitions the highly popular Just The Ticket giveaway returns for one week. Tickets are hidden inside copies of the Radio Fox magazine, all listeners have to do is look inside their copy to see if they’re a winner! When Just The Ticket was first run during March over twenty listeners won a prize within a ten day period simply by calling in and saying ‘Just The Ticket.’

“Radio Fox is all about listener involvement and we hope the changes to our competitions will encourage even more people to give us a call,” said Station Director Steve Hack.

In other news, our Saturday Selection request show returns from April 24th after a short break and Radio Fox will be celebrating its 22nd birthday with two special programmes. At 9am on April 23rd Steve Hack will be playing some of the most requested songs of all time in Request Chart Classic Number Ones, then from midday there’s an opportunity to hear The True Adventures Of Radio Fox. Originally produced for our twentieth birthday, the show tells the story of Leicester’s award winning hospital radio service through interviews and archive clips, and has been updated to take in the last two years.

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Radio Fox’s achievements were recognised recently when our members were invited to a special reception with the Lord Mayor of Leicester.

The Lord Mayor showed our members round the council chamber at Leicester’s town hall and invited us to join him for drinks.

Prior to this there was a special presentation made by the Lord Mayor to Joe Shikeley and Richard Leatherland, who were jointly named Members Of The Year for 2009 in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the radio station.

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Radio Fox achieved a 37% share of the audience at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield Hospitals for the week commencing Monday 11 May.

The nearest rivals to Radio Fox were BBC Radio Two with a 23% share of the audience.

The most listened to programmes were all request related programmes, with the Request Chart also making the top three.

Radio Fox spokesperson Kris Bramwell said: “This just highlights the importance of ward visiting to hospital radio. We are reaping the rewards of having regular interaction with our audience.”

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Radio Fox has just enjoyed the most successful night in its twenty one year history, having come away from this year’s National Hospital Radio Awards with the biggest prize of them all.

The station was given the Gold Award in the Station of the Year category, meaning that Radio Fox has been judged to be the UK’s best hospital radio station! The judges said that on the entry, our presenters sounded like they were enjoying themselves and were passionate about what they did, and that the presenters worked well as a team.

This is the second time Fox has won a Gold award, the first being in 2007 when Sandy Iliff won the Female Presenter Of The Year category. In this year’s awards, Fox also picked up highly commendeds in the Special Event (for our Caribbean Carnival coverage) and Station Promo categories, and commended in the Specialist Music show section (for Les Eastham’s Sixties Scene).

Station Director Steve Hack said of our success: “Wow! I think none of us could really believe we had been awarded Gold in Station of the Year – I’m still taking it in! This is a fantastic tribute to the hard work everyone at Radio Fox puts in to their programmes and it’s a brilliant way to start our 21st year on air.”

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