Wheatley Radio 87.5 FM - The Best Music

Wheatley Radio - The Best Music

Wheatley Radio was Mark Hodgkinson's bedroom radio station in the early 90's, which broadcast to his brothers' bedroom down down the landing. Originally, the station broadcast via a specially constructed long length phono lead, which utilised a reel of CW1308 telecomms cable and some soldered phono jacks. Later however, the station broadcast on 87.5 MHz from a low-power FM transmitter on the bedroom windowsill, to a quarter mile radius of the studio on Harrowden Road in Wheatley. The station was sporadically on-the-air during Sunday afternoons, with a final Christmas Day special broadcast in 1995. A selection of archive Wheatley Radio aircheck recordings and jingles from the studio tapes are available to download on this web site.

	Below are some off-air recordings from Wheatley Radio. Due to the archive nature of the airchecks featured, the sound quality is not perfect.
Top Of Hour	Mark reads the weather at the top of the hour on top of the groovy weather jingle. Interesting Fact: The cassette with the original version of the weather jingle got chewed up and had to be re-produced.	40 Seconds (626KB)
News	The fighting intensifies in Rwanda; on location Steven Hodgkinson reports exclusively for Wheatley Radio News. Wheatley Radio only ever had 2 news stories with reports; this one and one about a car crash on Thorne Road.	72 Seconds (1.09MB)
The Speedy CD	There were several competitions that ran during Wheatley Radio's history; they had to have some way of making people listen! The Speedy CD was the longest running of all the competitions.	44 Seconds (686KB)

	Wheatley Radio had a huge amount of home-made jingles, which were all produced by Mark Hodgkinson. Below are audio samples of the main jingles which were used on the station. Due to the archive nature of the jingles featured, the sound quality is not perfect.
CBBC	Music: Children's BBC *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	11 Seconds (220KB)
Diet Coke	Music: ITV Diet Coke Movie Sponsor Ident *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	8 Seconds (158KB)
Friends	Music: The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	5 Seconds (92KB)
Fudge	Music: Fudge (Children's TV Programme) *Vocals: Mark & Steven Hodgkinson`*	27 Seconds (458KB)
GMTV	Music: GMTV Commercial Break Ident *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	4 Seconds (74KB)
Grace	Music: Grace Television Ident (from Simpsons) *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	3 Seconds (56KB)
Hollyoaks	Music: Hollyoaks Commercial Break Ident (Channel 4) *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	8 Seconds (170KB)
Look North	Music: BBC Look North Ident *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	6 Seconds (102KB)
Nickelodeon	Music: Nickelodeon TV Ident *Vocals: David, Mark & Steven Hodgkinson*	5 Seconds (102KB)
Nickelodeon [Solo]	Music: Nickelodeon TV Ident *Vocals: Irene Hodgkinson*	5 Seconds (102KB)
Pink Panther	Music: The New Pink Panther Show - Story Ident *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	4 Seconds (80KB)
Ride On	Music: Ride On Ident (Channel 4) *Vocals: Mark Hodgkinson*	7 Seconds (144KB)
During production, the Wheatley Radio jingles were recorded onto cassette tapes. Each tape had one jingle recorded on each side of the tape. The tapes were then taken apart and re-assembled so that there was no leader tape and thus the jingles would start instantly when you pressed play on the tape deck. Generally, each individual cassette tape had two versions of the same jingle on it; a full sung version on side A and a ramp version on side B. The picture left shows the original Memorex cassette tape containing the Wheatley Radio "Nickelodeon" Jingle.

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