00:00 I'm Neil Anderson, the chairman of Glasgow's Hospital Broadcasting Service.
00:03 The Doors Open Day is something that we've thought about for many years, but we've never
00:09 quite been in the position to open the doors up of the studios until this year.
00:14 And we're really looking forward to having people in on the weekend of Saturday the 16th
00:20 and Sunday the 17th of September, where we're going to be open for people just to pop in,
00:24 don't need to pre-book, just pop into the building at Baltic Chambers, which is at number
00:29 50 Wellington Street.
00:31 We're up on the fourth floor, there is disabled access, so we should be able to cope with
00:36 anyone's requirements who are coming along to have a look.
00:40 And if you pop in and see us, then we're going to let you see the programmes which are being
00:46 broadcast.
00:47 We're doing a special weekend of Doors Open Day events, and we're going to have people
00:52 out at other venues doing live reports and finding out what other venues are doing, what
00:58 is on offer for people to go and see if they want to visit somewhere else.
01:02 But if it's just here that they're visiting, then they can see a display on more than 50
01:08 years of our service, starting in 1970.
01:12 They can also be in a studio just like this one, in fact, probably this one, and learn
01:18 how music and jingles all get played and how the microphones work and the red lights coming
01:23 on, all the things that you associate with radio.
01:27 And they can also find out about the production work that goes on and how we manage to maintain
01:32 a 24-hour a day, seven-day-a-week service.
01:36 HBS, as we commonly get known, or longer name the Hospital Broadcasting Service, is the
01:42 longest running radio station in Glasgow.
01:46 We predate Radio Clyde by a few years and BBC Radio Scotland by almost a decade.
01:52 And the thing that is key to what we do, obviously, is contact with the patients.
02:00 What we're trying to do is provide a positive distraction to an unusual environment that
02:07 the person is in.
02:08 So for most people coming to the hospital, we hope it's not too regular an occurrence.
02:13 So if that's the case, then it's somewhere that they've probably not been before.
02:17 It's unfamiliar.
02:18 If you're in one of the new hospitals, you get your own room.
02:22 But again, that can be quite isolating because you don't have anyone to chat to and you maybe
02:26 have staff popping in and out, but they don't really have time to chat these days.
02:31 If you're in one of the older wards, you might be in a room with three or four other people,
02:36 in which case it's kind of an unusual environment of spending the day and the night in a room
02:42 with people who initially will be strangers anyway.
02:46 So what we're trying to do is give people the opportunity to have requests, take part
02:53 in competitions and quizzes, just positively distract people, give them some level of familiarity,
02:59 and help to relieve a bit of the pressure, a little bit of the tension that they're under.
03:04 And that actually aids the recovery process as well.
03:08 So it's kind of a win-win.
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