Nov 20, 2022 | Local news, Press releases
Petersfield’s volunteer-run Shine Radio has been named the best digital community station in the UK. The local radio station collected the gold award at the national Community Radio Awards ceremony on Saturday night. The judges’ said: This is a genuinely impressive...
Oct 11, 2022 | Press releases
Shine Time children with a large clock Young children love being able to tell the time. Now they can do it all day long on Petersfield’s Shine Radio. Children aged between 7 and 11 from Sheet Primary School have recorded audio for every minute and hour of the day....
Dec 10, 2021 | Audio stories, Press releases
Shine Radio has joined forces with the Petersfield Post so everyone in Petersfield has a chance to be part of Doorstep Carols. The radio singalong takes place on Wednesday night and the Petersfield Post has printed all the words for the carols in this week’s edition...
Oct 24, 2021 | Press releases, Project updates
Petersfield radio personalities Lucy Davies, Harrison RB and James ‘the captain’ Birdseye accepted the award. Photo: Vincent Lo. Petersfield’s Shine Radio has been named as one of the top digital radio services in the UK in the Community Radio Awards. The...
Aug 27, 2021 | Press releases, Project updates
Ann-Marie and Claire A radio show made in Petersfield has been named among the UK’s most popular gardening podcasts. “Growing Together with Ann-Marie Powell and Claire Vennis” is a monthly gardening show produced by the volunteers at Shine Radio. The programme marks...
May 4, 2021 | Press releases
Shine Radio volunteer and local author Suzie Wilde has been creating and sharing inspirational walks in the Petersfield countryside since May 2019 and the series has now reached 100 episodes. Susie walks the South Downs every day with her Labrador, Raine –...
Apr 2, 2021 | Press releases
Local playwright and creative writing lecturer Greg Mosse has entered a collaboration with Petersfield’s Shine Radio. The collaboration sees a new radio play, ‘The Idea of Guilt’ being broadcast on Shine Radio. The play is a ‘two-hander’ by local professional actors...
Feb 4, 2021 | Press releases
Listening to Petersfield’s Shine Radio has reached record levels during this lockdown. Total on-demand listening to the volunteer-run station topped 5,300 in January, its highest ever. An estimated 2,890 listeners tuned-in during the month. What are people listening...
Dec 15, 2020 | Press releases
Despite the pandemic, we can still sing the music of Christmas together. Doorstep Carols started in Shropshire and has gradually spread across the country. This year it reaches Petersfield for the first time, thanks to Shine Radio and the Petersfield Post....
Oct 2, 2020 | Press releases, Project updates
People across Petersfield could enjoy live church services via Shine Radio in beautiful stereo sound if a crowdfunding project achieves its aim of raising £1,800 by the end of the month. The funding would allow Petersfield Community Radio to invest in the installation...
Sep 7, 2020 | Growing Together, Press releases, Project updates
Can you dig it?: Ann-Marie Powell, left, and Claire Vennis Multi-award winning garden designer and TV gardening presenter Ann-Marie Powell is the latest recruit to Petersfield’s new radio station, Shine Radio. Powell is to co-present a gardening show with Petersfield...
Aug 12, 2020 | Audio stories, Press releases
Petersfield will have its own 24-hour dedicated digital radio service when Shine Radio launches on Saturday, August 15. Shine Radio is a leap into internet radio by the team at Petersfield Community Radio, which has been producing podcasts and online audio content for...
Oct 2, 2019 | Press releases
A regular podcast for and about the town has been launched by the people behind the Petersfield Community Radio project. The P pod – which can be downloaded or streamed from all normal podcast outlets – is a major step towards what the all-volunteer project team hope...
Mar 20, 2019 | Press releases
The fledgling Petersfield Community Radio project has been able to buy essential recording equipment thanks to a four-figure donation from a business based in the town. The project – which aims to start ‘broadcasting’ initially with a podcast in the summer – is...
Jan 28, 2019 | Press releases
More than 50 people attended the inaugural meeting of the new Petersfield community radio project, at The Petersfield School, on Saturday. The chief correspondent for ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Richard Gaisford, welcomed everybody to the event and explained how he...
Dec 20, 2018 | Press releases
ITV News chief correspondent Richard Gaisford A group of community-minded media professionals from the Petersfield area – including Richard Gaisford, ITV Good Morning Britain’s chief correspondent – are aiming to create a community radio station for the town, and hope...
Doorstep Carols are back
