St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 66
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
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Below: Roger Smith, community radio presenter
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX
In the summer of 2001 HCR (Huntingdon Community Radio) was running its sixth restricted
service licence in its six-year campaign to become a permanent station. All this time it has
been supported by local business and council grants, and the exercise has cost nearly £50,000
not counting everybody’s time, which is given freely.
A fundamental aim is to give free advertising over the airwaves to local community groups.
Roger is one of the volunteers and presents the Saturday Sports Show. A genuine St Ivian, and
a vacuum engineer by trade, he has been involved in the HCR project since Day One - and with
hospital radio at Hinchingbrooke before that.
HCR’s first broadcast was in June 1995. The team numbers 20 to 30 and most have stayed
with station boss Bill Hensley the whole course.
Above: Christopher South, broadcaster and journalist
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Ricoh XR7
St Ives listeners have enjoyed Christopher’s show on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire ‘for donkey’s
years’ and his entertaining ways are practically part of everyday life. He is also an Assistant
Editor of the Cambridge Evening News. The veteran broadcaster was happy to be snapped as
he beamed his programme onto the airwaves.
Christopher’s wife declares that although he’s a disc jockey his post-Beatles knowledge of the
subject is non-existent! His quirky hobbies include collecting bits of famous buildings. He has
pieces of the Houses of Parliament and the Taj Mahal in his collection. He’s dog mad and his
spotty dalmatian is a regular listener to his master’s show.
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