So...Speak Out!

We are a radio station that likes good speaking practice on air. We like our people to be witty and funny and present good programming.

We decided that if you can't entertain an audience you can see then you will struggle with an audience you can't see. To help with audience entertainment we formed a Speaking Group which meets every Wednesday at 7.30 pm in the Lecture Theatre in the hospital. Now it is not just radio staff who attend but people from outside the hospital as well. They learn to build up their own confidence by standing up and speaking up.

If you have a wedding speech, an important interview, a university or work Presentation or anything of that type which worries you, feel free to come and join us and get help and support. If you just want a good laugh then we have that too with Comedy Workshops and much more.

Come along and join So...Speak Out in Monklands. Or for more information email us.

You'll love it - honest!

The Fish Supper

All voluntary organisations need staunch supporters. These are the folk that dig deep into their pockets to fill our collecting cans, folk who come to our dinners and cheer us on and folk who work their little socks off to see us right. Every one of them is important to us. Every one of them, we hope, knows how much we value them.

However, as I was going home on Tuesday evening after a particularly long day full of little highs and many disappointments in terms of our progress towards good programming for our listeners, I was feeling more than a little down. I was also hungry and cold. It seemed reasonable, in the face of all this adversity, that I should seek sustenance and warmth. Where better, then, than our local chippie. Well he isn't local either to the radio station or to my home but I would drive a long way to eat fish and chips cooked by this man.


When I got to Roberto's in Broomfield Street, Airdrie, he enquired after the welfare of the radio station, as he often does, chatted and then said the magic words, 'This one's on the house.'

Ah! Bliss! Roberto, you are a lifesaver and a true gentleman. What's more you make the best fish and chips anywhere.

On The Home Straight

Well thanks to Dave Broderick - that's him in the fotie - and his wonderful team from Radio Grapevine at St. John's Hospital, Livingston it now seems as though we might be broadcasting very soon. Iain Stuart was over at the weekend and he and our very own Barry - more about him later - worked on improving our output to the Patientline system. They think they have conquered it!

Now all we are waiting for is the final verdict from Patientline's man Bob Chilvers. All being well - tune in shortly for the best in hospital radio.

Of course, if it doesn't work and we are back to the drawing board then you will have to buy me lots of chocolate to cure the pain.

Irene and Mitchell Entertain

Station Manager, Irene and Head of Sport Mitchell Gibb (that's him in the fotie) are off out tonight to do what they do best - talk rubbish.

Seriously, as if they could ever be serious, they are off to propose The Toast to the Lassies (Mitchell) and the Reply from the Lassies (Irene) at a Burns Supper in Strathaven to raise money for the Town Mill there.

These two are well known speakers in the area. Irene talks to Luncheon Clubs, Rotary, Probus and all sorts while Mitchell is the dandy of the Sportsman's Dinners. Between them they should entertain the good folk of Strathaven royally and have their chuckle muscles aching.

Good luck, guys!

The Security Team

We thought you should meet the Security Team at our Radio Station.

They are ferocious, fierce and fluffy.

Visitors to the station are more likely to be licked to death than savaged but don't bet on it!

The small white fuzzball is Chloe and she is the constant companion of the Station Manager. Bella, the black bombshell accompanies our man Andy.

Who needs a Burglar Alarm System? Well actually we do and for this we are indebted to a local company for their help and assistance.

Andy's Going Mad

For ten weeks now our poor Andy has been going mad trying to organise all the music on the playout system. He has colour-coded, updated, moved, shuffled and loaded all the music so that presenters can have everything just right.

He is tired. He is cross-eyed. He is going slightly loopy. He is greying fast. Even Bella the dog has a drooping tail.

Help is needed.

Can you spare an hour or two to rescue this man from early dementia.

Can you help him with the workload of organising a completely new playout system.

Go on - you know you want to!