THE
ULSTER HOSPITAL RADIO - A HISTORY OF THE EARLY YEARS
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CINDERELLA - BROADCAST LIVE FROM THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE
January
1981- page one
SOME FACTS
- Seventeen mics on stage (Supplied by Downtown Radio and BBC)
- VHF (Dish) link between Opera Hse and Ulster Hospital for two way production
chat
(Supplied/installed for free by the BBC Communications
Department)
- Landline from Opera Hse to the Ulster Hospital (Paid for by UTV and
set up by BBC)
- Leaflet for patients. (350) Art work and printing (Done for free by Belfast
Telegraph)
- Delivery of Cassette tapes to hospitals and blind groups (Done for free
by
Belfast Telegraph drivers)
- Printing of leaflets (500) inserted in Opera Hse audience programmes (Done
for free by Century Newspapers)
- Mixing desk, mics and cables lent by Downtown Radio
- Recording by Jim McG (UTV sound recordist)
- Twenty complimentary seats for Hospital Radio volunteers (Opera
House management)
- Several complimentary seats during the run -up leading up to the broadcast
to enable
UHR Co-ordinator and technicians to see the performance
(Opera House management)
- Panto programmes for all the Ulster Hospital patients (Donated by Opera
House management)
- Twenty fives cassette tapes freely supplied and copied by "Echo Recordings"
(Albert Price of Grahams Records)
Cassettes of the show went to the following Hospital Radios :-
Craigavon
Area; Mid Ulster; South Tyrone; Gransha; Ards;
RVH; Mater;
Cassettes of the show went to the following Talking Newspapers for the
Blind :- Antrim/Ballymena; Banbridge; Bangor; Carrick/Larne; Coleraine; Craigavon;
Downpatrick; Enniskillen; Holywood; Lisburn; Mid Ulster (Cookstown); Newtownards;
Dungannon; Omagh; Armagh; Londonderry; Sound and Vision magazine; New Dimension
magazine.
The Pantomime "Cinderella" All the following gave their
services free:-
- Producer, Dennis Chritchley Royalty Entertainments.
- Ed. Coleman (Musical Director)
- Danny Longstaff and the orchestra
- Frank Carson and the cast
- John Jordan (Technical Manager) and the stage staff.
Ulster Hospital Radio volunteers involved:-
- Dawn B. (Commentary from the Opera House Gallery in the audience)
- Ian B. (Mixing in "Band Room" under Opera House stage)
- Brian W. (Co-ordinating)
- Gordon B. (In Opera House Gallery assisting Dawn)
- John L. (Assisting mixing/recording).
- Colin K. (Organising seating and stickers)
- Maureen T. (Organising tickets)
- Don B. (Making master recording and controlling in cubicle at the Ulster
Hosp)
- Alf J. (Announcing in UHR studio)
This Hospital Radio project attracted much media interest
and we got mentioned or interviewed :-
- Four interviews on Radio Ulster
- One interview Downtown Radio
- Item on Good Evening Ulster (UTV)
- Item on Scene Around Six (BBC TV)
- Two articles in Newsletter
- One article in Irish News
- One article in Belfast Telegraph
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