Despite the palava (sounds less scary then pandemic!) myself and my friends at Hospital Radio Reading are trying our best to keep the patients entrained, despite being unable to enter our studios. The nice people at BBC South Today decided to run a feature on Read More …
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The Best of HRR podcast episode 4
As well as presenting a request show on Hospital Radio Reading I also produce their best of podcast. In this edition you get to hear one of the silliest features I have done in quite some time, “NEIGHme or not” a Grand National guessing game. Read More …
Rhodders Wins Gold HBA Award
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rhodri Buttrick of Hospital Radio Reading won Gold in the Best Male Presenter of the year category at the Annual National Hospital Radio Awards last Saturday, 28 March. Organised by the Hospital Radio Broadcasting Association (HBA), the Awards highlight the achievements Read More …
My interview on the Spivey Cast podcast
Recently I was a guest on the Spivey Cast podcast. The Spiveycast is an informal magazine style show creamed full of interviews mayhem plus more (and just to warn you, some bad language!). I sat down with Paul for a long chat. Myself and Paul go back a Read More …
5th consecutive HBA award nomination
Like many of us on year’s eve was spent in a bar. I was recovering from a partially boisterous rendition of Auld Lang Syne. I took out my phone and considered whether I should send the typical ” happy new year” text to the already overburdened Read More …
The best of HRR podcast episode 1
listen to ‘The Best of HRR Episode 1’ on Audioboo I have recently started producing a “best of” podcast for Hospital Radio Reading. The purpose of this is to showcase and publicise some of the fun stuff we do at the station. You can Read More …
St Patrick and the power of music
listen to ‘HRR Podcast 17 03 14 Live music for St Patricks Day’ on Audioboo You can also download this podcast via iTunes. Not being Irish and only being an occasional drinker of Guinness St Patrick’s Day has never really meant much to me. Read More …
Nominated for Hospital radio awards 3 years running
For the third consecutive year Rhodders has been nominated in the Best Male category in the HBA Awards (Hospital Radio Association). The HBA awards are a national radio competition open to all hospital radio stations in the UK. Entrants have to send in a short demo which Read More …
Inventor of the phone, Alexander Graham Bell, on Hospital Radio
During his career as a broadcaster Rhodders has interviewed some of the bigger celebrities but none are as great as the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell. In a beautifully poetic moment of radio Rhodders was able to talk to Alexander Graham Bell via Read More …
Listen back to Rhodders’ interview on RadioWey
The other week Rhodders was interviewed on RadioWey on the Jon Andrew’s show for hospital broadcasting week. Take a listen and subscribe to Jon’s podcast HERE. Notice Rhodders sneaks in the word “rhubarb” in honour of his Welsh Grandfather(who is currently very worried about the Read More …