50 Years of LHBS

Liverpool Hospital Broadcasting Service 1975 – 2025

Radio Newsham Roadshow (c) LHBS/Radio Broadgreen (pictured Alan Foulkes/Jack Newman/Sue Polhill)

It all started in 1975 as RADIO NEWSHAM launched in Newsham General Hospital Liverpool 6.

Radio Newsham Studio
Radio Newsham studio (c) LHBS/Radio Broadgreen (pictured Bob McCarthy)

Following an invitation from the Broadgreen hospital administration to start a new radio service based on the Broadgreen site, Radio Newsham changed it’s charity name to Liverpool Hospital Broadcasting Service in 1982.

Radio Newsham studio (c) Andrew Hesford/LHBS (pictured Alan Walsh/Andrew Hesford)

LHBS raised funds for both radio services until Newsham Hospital closed it’s doors in the 1980s but continued to operate Radio Broadgreen since 1983.

Radio Newsham/Radio Broadgreen Roadshow at International Garden Festival 1984 (c) LHBS/Radio Broadgreen
Radio Broadgreen Roadshow at International Garden Festival 1984 (c) LHBS/Radio Broadgreen

1975-2025 LHBS continues as a registered charity.

Our sincere thanks to members past and present for continued support of hospital radio across Liverpool.

LHBS/Radio Broadgreen staff (c) LHBS/Radio Broadgreen