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Beatles Week 2024 Bank Holiday Specials

Join us this bank holiday weekend for some Beatles specials. On Saturday evening at 6 Peter Grogan will continue his “Classic Albums” series with a look at the Beatles iconic “White Album”. This is followed by a series of live performances with “In Concert – The Beatles” at 7pm.

Later on Saturday evening Richard Smith will be along for an A to Z of the Fab Four Special at 10pm with another on Sunday evening also at 10pm.

This Bank Holiday Monday we’ll return to Mary Myriad’s Bank Holiday Bonanza starting a 6am through to 6pm. Great oldies throughout the day. And Richard Smith will be back to close proceedings with a two hour A to Z of Beatles Covers Special at 10pm.

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Premier League 2024/25

For Radio Broadgreen Sport, the new season starts on Saturday 17th August 2024 with live action from Goodison Park. While Liverpool FC with new manager Arne Slot travel to newly promoted Ipswich Town for the early 12:30 kick-off, RBG Sport will be live from 2pm with full commentary of Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion.

It’s the final season of Blues football at “The Grand Old Lady” Goodison Park and Radio Broadgreen are proud to be invited to provide commentary for the blind and partially sighted as well as the hospitals we serve.

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Radio Broadgreen plays 5,000th Charity Filler

On compiling stats for Charity Fillers, Radio Broadgreen played the 5,000th Charity Filler to be aired since Charity Fillers started in March 2024. Charity Fillers are a non-profit providing a platform for charities and other such organisations to distribute adverts/promos to radio stations across the UK.

The 5,000th Charity Filler was for the Scar Free Foundation featuring Simon Weston and two other scarring patients. Other radio fillers include Alcoholics Anonymous and Doctors of the World Organisation.

Spencer Pryor of Charity Fillers said: ‘We are extremely pleased that we’ve reached this milestone in just four months of operation.

“Our thanks go out to the 70 participating UK radio stations for generously donating their ‘filler’ airtime and supporting the great charities that are part of Charity Fillers.

“As always, we always looking for more radio stations to join Charity Fillers and we will thank them for donating a few minutes of airtime each week to help good causes. Let’s see if we can hit 25,000 airtime plays before the end of 2024!” For more information about Charity Fillers, take a look at their website here.

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EPL Season finale for Sunday 19th May 2024

Following on from Everton’s last home fixture at Goodison Park last week, this Sunday (19th May) is the Premier League finale for season 2023/24 and Radio Broadgreen Sport will be at Anfield for Liverpool v Wolves. It is time to say goodbye to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and to the HRFN network that has provided commentaries since the 1950s. Join Chris Orme from 3pm this Sunday for a Radio Broadgreen Sport Special.

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April 1st Bank Holiday Special

Ahoy there my hearties! All aboard and join us this Easter Monday for an Oldies Special. Sailing from 6am it’s 12 hours of great golden oldies from the 60s through to some 80s. And John Butcher will be along reminiscing of days of old with his series “Time & Tide”.

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Barclays Women’s Super League

Radio Broadgreen Sport have been asked to provide commentary services for the WSL Everton v Liverpool derby clash on Sunday 24th March 2024

With an expected large crowd, the clash will take place at Goodison Park and RBG Sport will also make the commentary available to our hospital listeners via a special link. Kick off is at 1pm.

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League Cup Final 2024

Thursday 22nd February 2024 – Radio Broadgreen Sport have not been successful with it’s application for accreditation for the EFL League Cup Final 2024 fixture of Chelsea v Liverpool FC.

Although the Hospital Radio Football Network have been providing sports commentaries to hospitals since the 1950s and have been based at Radio Broadgreen since the 1980s, we are disappointed by the decision from the EFL.

Unfortunately it is too late to sought an alternative for this Sunday’s fixture and will come as a huge disappointment for the patients & staff in the hospitals we serve as the League Cup Final is only available via subscription TV.

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RBG Sport at Anfield – update (January 2024)

Following a recent request to resume broadcasts from Anfield stadium, Liverpool Football Club have confirmed that our commentary team should be able to resume from Wednesday 31st January 2024 for the Liverpool FC v Chelsea FC fixture.

It is hoped that this fixture will be broadcast to the hospitals we serve from 8pm.

Knowing how popular the Radio Broadgreen Sports commentary service is to the hospitals we serve, we can only apologise for the lack of commentaries from Anfield this 2023-2024 season due to the redevelopment of the Anfield Road stand.

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RBG Sport at Anfield (October 2023)

Please note: Due to the redevelopment of Anfield stadium that caused damage to cables feeding our commentary position on the Sir Kenny Dalglish stand, we are unable to provide any Liverpool FC commentaries at present.

Liverpool FC have not offered any alternative. Due to the nature of our licencing, we cannot re-broadcast commentary from our colleagues at BBC Radio Merseyside. We can only apologize for the current situation which is out of our control.

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The A to Z of Pop LIVE!

Join Richard Smith weekday afternoons from 1 – 2pm in December 2023 for a live edition of The A to Z of Pop! here on Radio Broadgreen.

A special guest will be choosing the letter that Richard will feature during the show at the start – so he won’t know what letter he’ll be doing until it’s chosen for him!

What could possibly go wrong??

Brought to you in association with our friends at Salter Family Charitable Trust, each show looks at one letter of the alphabet chosen at random and features music from the 60s to today, a Mystery Voice competition as well as ‘Our Christmas Tune For Today’.  There’s also the opportunity for patients to request a song on 033 33 601 301 or on Twitter / X   @TheAtoZofPop.

So stick it in your diaries – each weekday from Friday 1st until Friday 22nd December 2023 tune in within the hospitals we serve and online.

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