The length of hospital stays are reducing nowadays, due to medical advances and greater emphasis on post-operative convalescence at home. We are therefore looking at ways in which we can continue our role with the relief of sickness, infirmity and old age, after patients have left hospital.
A community audio magazine distibuted on CD is currently being piloted. Also here on this page, patients can make use of our services from the comfort of their own homes by listening to the various recordings below.
Currently Topical
Mouth Cancer Action Month runs from 1st to 30th November 2009. HRP's Andrew Hill has been finding out more from Dr Nigel Carter, Chief Executive of the British Dental Health Foundation. Click here to listen
Read more about the Foundation at www.dentalhealth.org.uk
A new menopause support community interest company has been set up in the Westcountry. An educational support course takes place in Exeter on 5th and 6th December. Heather Fairburn has been telling HRP's Keith Jolley more about it. Click here to listen
Contact Menopause Support CIC via www.menopausesupport.org.uk
Health
Details to be added shortly
General Interest
In 2009 to mark our 40th anniversary HRP members Connal Cather, Steve Glanville, Andrew Hill and Keith Jolley visited the sites of our past studios and hospitals we have broadcast to. Hear extracts below:
New Street on the Barbican click here to listen
Lockyer Street Part 1 click here to listen
Lockyer Street Hospital
Lockyer Street Part 2 click here to listen
Lockyer Street Part 3 click here to listen
The Plymouth City Transport Preservation Group has a number of the City's vintage buses now under its wing. Andrew Hill has been looking through one of their photo albums and chatting to group chairman Ralph Delbridge. click here to listen
For more details of the Plymouth City Transport Preservation Group visit www.plymouthcitytransport.co.uk
Country Walk South West
For over 20 years Launceston based reporter Kevin Wadland has presented his weekly feature Country Walk South West in which he chats to people from all over Devon and Cornwall about a variety of subjects. A selection of his broadcasts can be heard below.
Interview with Rev'd Tony Cox of the Central Methodist Church in Launceston Click here to listen
Kevin speaks with Cornish vet Nigel Hicks about his time in Borneo Part 1 Click here to listen
Kevin speaks with Cornish vet Nigel Hicks about his time in Borneo Part 2 Click here to listen
Learn more about Little Ben Click here to listen
Other Charities
Various charities from time to time do fundraising abseils down the front of Derriford Hospital. One such to do so during 2009 was the Parkinson's Disease Society. Andrew Hill met up with their regional co-ordinator Jean Almond to learn more. Click here to listen
Read more about the group at www.parkinsons.org.uk
Vintage
Former World Featherweight Boxing Champion Barry McGuigan will be presenting this year's Herald Sports Personality of the Year Award. Barry was previously in Plymouth in 1989 for the opening of what was then Ski Plymouth where he spoke to Andrew Hill. Click here to listen
Read more about Barry's career at www.barrymcguigan.com
In the early 1980s former local tour guide Elizabeth Churcher was a regular guest on Winnie Putt's magazine programme, Winnie's Weekly, where she introduced a feature called Plymouth Past. Some of those episodes can be heard below.
Plymouth - the early days click here to listen
Plymouth Place Names click here to listen
Door to door street traders click here to listen
For more details of Plymouth's history visit Brian Moseley's informative website www.plymouthdata.info