{"id":528073,"date":"2026-03-11T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:52:08","slug":"ive-been-the-voice-of-edinburghs-hospital-radio-for-six-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528073\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;ve been the voice of Edinburgh&#8217;s hospital radio for six decades&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Show day starts with a visit to collect song requests from patients across the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Malcolm said: &#8220;The main purpose of visiting the wards is to let patients know the service exists and how they can tune in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the Western we are very lucky that the bedside radios still work very well but in newer wards we appear on the television as a channel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if neither works, people can also listen through our website online.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The team put together a two-hour show every night along with a quiz that listeners can take part in live on air and the winner even gets shortbread as a prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We play anything on the request show &#8211; as long as there is no swearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is always a huge mix &#8211; tonight for example we have everything from Fats Domino, to Bill Withers, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, the Stone Roses, Eagles and some Bjork as well,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Show day starts with a visit to collect song requests from patients across the hospital. Malcolm said: &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-528073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}