HOSPITAL RADIO, GLASGOW
Members of the Glasgow and West Hospital Broadcasting Service record the first song request for their new service. (clip)
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Title: HOSPITAL RADIO, GLASGOW
Reference number: T0442
Date: 1970, December 24
Production company: Scottish Television
Sound: sound
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 2.05 mins
Description:
Radio volunteers taping a song request from an elderly patient in Foresthall Home and Hospital in Glasgow, before it was demolished in the late 1980's. Interview with the Chairman of the Radio Service, George McNair.
To date only three people have held the role of Chairman, with the person conducting the interview with the patient, Eric Simpson, being Chairman between George McNair and current post holder, Niall Anderson.
Information supplied April 2009
For more information about the service, see also: http://www.hbs.org.uk [Last accessed: 19/6/2013]
Shotlist:
No credits. Shot of two men taping a patient request [for Kenneth McKellar] (1.05); i/v George McNair, Chairman of the Radio Service, he speaks about organisation, coverage and content of his service; he states that his service might reach thirty hospitals and ten thousand patients [interviewer is Eric Simpson, also a former Chairman of the Hospital Broadcasting Service] (2.08)