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BCB Newsletter – July 2021

BCB: Becoming an anti-racist organisation update BCB is continuing its work to become an actively anti-racist organisation. This work started following the murder of George Floyd in the US and the Black Lives Matter Movement actively seeking equality for black people globally. In order

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BCB Newsletter – April 2021

Welcome to the latest BCB newsletter. Here’s a taste of what’s been happening recently at BCB. Do let us know if you have any news for the next newsletter. Thanks and Goodbye to Julie and Steve Two members of staff

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BCB Newsletter – February 2021

BCB – Making Bradford Sparkle! You may have seen this but if not, a few weeks ago BCB was featured in Sparkling Bradford. We’d been nominated as an organisation that makes Bradford Sparkle so well done to us! Click here to read

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BCB Newsletter – September 2020

BCB in Covid Times Well it’s been a strange few months for everyone and it looks like it’s going to be like that for a while longer. It’s been amazing what’s been achieved with people broadcasting from home but we

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BCB Newsletter – February 2020

Radio Venus IWD broadcast: Sunday 8th March Join us on BCB on Sunday 8th March to celebrate International Women’s Day. It’s the day when women take over the airwaves on BCB, coming together to present a full day of women’s

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BCB Newsletter – January 2020

Radio Venus: IWD broadcast on BCB Calling all BCB Women! It’s that time of the year again – International Women’s Day, Sunday 8th of March. It’s the day when BCB women take over the airwaves and present Radio Venus. Bradford

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BCB Newsletter – December 2019

Happy Holidays! Christmas Opening / Closing Times It’s that time of year again! We here at BCB would like to thank all our volunteers for the hard work over year and to wish them a happy holidays and a happy

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BCB Newsletter – October 2019

Black History Month Presenters during a hands on radio workshop Well done to everyone who contributed to our Black History Month coverage. It was the most extensive coverage we’ve ever had on BCB. Throughout October a team of people, coordinated

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BCB Newsletter – September 2019

General Election – Advance Warning At the time of writing we don’t know when a General Election might be held but it feels like one is definitely on the horizon! Obviously we have a six week ‘purdah’ period leading up

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BCB Newsletter – August 2019

City of Culture 2025 Bradford has just announced its intention to bid for City of Culture 2025. This is a competitive process and the title is awarded by the DCMS every 4 years. If successful, this would be an amazing

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BCB Newsletter – July 2019

Philip Hesse RIP We are really sad to announce the death of Philip Hesse. Phil was a long term -volunteer at BCB, presenting the jazz programme ‘Tell me When the Tune Starts’ and ‘The Classical Hour’. He was also the

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BCB Newsletter – April 2019

Above The Noise exhibition at NSMM Mystery lady DJ with DJ Farooq Ahmed, one of BCB’s DJs from the early days Thanks to everyone who attended the launch of the Above the Noise Exhibition on 14 March. The BCB story

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BCB Newsletter – March 2019

Above The Noise – BCB to feature in National Science & Media Museum exhibition The BCB story will be featured as one of the 15 stories that make up the Above the Noise exhibition at the National Science & Media

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BCB Newsletter – February 2019

Ten Today: Exercise on the Radio! Thanks to everyone who attended the Information Sessions this week. It was a very positive response – and really good fun too! The Active Ageing project is aimed at getting the over 55s into

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BCB Newsletter – December 2018

The ‘BCB Story’ to be featured at NSMM We are really pleased that the BCB Story will feature as part of a major exhibition at NSMM March – June 2019. So if you’ve got any BCB posters, t-shirts, flyers, programme

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BCB Newsletter – November 2018

The National Museum Project As part of our partnership project with Leeds University and the National Science and Media Museum, BCB is carrying out a series of radio interviews with NSMM staff that we are calling ‘Behind the Scenes at

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BCB Newsletter – September 2018

Bradford Bubble Up – RadiH20 Giant water slides down Darley Street, choreographed dance routines around the fountain in the mirror pool and much, much more! Over the first weekend of September (7-8th), Bradford Bubble Up created waves in the city

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BCB Newsletter – August 2018

Bradford Bubble Up – RadiH2O! On September 8th-9th we are thrilled to be taking part in Bradford Bubble Up, a huge party celebrating the hidden currents running through our city – not only our secret waterways, but also our creativity

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BCB Newsletter – July 2018

BCB will be on the move … again! Bradford Council Executive met on 10 July and approved the proposal to move the Oastler Market down to the old M & S building on Darley Street. This will result in the

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BCB Newsletter – June 2018

Summer In The City: BCB Live OBs Summer has well and truly hit Bradford! So we thought we’d tell you about some events you can join BCB for. – Bradford Literature Festival (30th June – 9th July) – Bradford Festival

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BCB Newsletter – May 2018

Young People’s Work As part of our Children In Need project, we’ve been working with Belle Vue Girls School over the last six weeks which has been great fun. We’ll be continuing to work with them in the run up

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BCB Newsletter – March 2018

Young People’s Work Over the last month or two we’ve been working with Ravenscliffe Youth Club, Step2 health project, and Clough Clubs in Buttershaw to help groups of young people make radio. Shows have been broadcast in the BCB Xtra

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BCB Newsletter – December 2017

BCB AGM – Wednesday 13th December 7pm It’s that time of year again! The AGM will be at BCB studios. Its a great opportunity to get together with other BCB people and catch up with what we’ve been doing this

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BCB Newsletter – June 2017

BCB Open Day – 25 Year Celebration! On 17th June BCB held an open day for people to find out more about BCB, how to get involved with us, and to celebrate 25 years of community radio. The day was

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BCB Newsletter – May 2017

Drive Live From The Record Cafe Lorna and Dom chatting to Keith Wildman, owner of The Record Cafe Every year, Record Store Day aims to celebrate the importance of independent music stores, and to increase footfall in these important community

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BCB Newsletter – April 2017

BCB Roll Out The Red Carpet David Wilson approves BCB’s new red carpet treatment As some of you may have seen, the BCB office and studios have been re-fitted with new carpets – including a stretch of red carpet guiding

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BCB Newsletter – March 2017

BCB’s New Logo As some of you may have seen on BCB’s Facebook and Twitter, we now have a shiny new logo! This logo is part of a wider re-brand for BCB that will include the front of BCB’s studios

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BCB Newsletter – January 2017

Live Music On BCB Throughout the year, BCB is going to be broadcasting a fortnightly series of live music sessions. The aim of the sessions is to provide a platform for local musicians to get their music heard, and for

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BCB Newsletter – December 2016

Lord Mayor Visits BCB Cllr Reid pictured here with Graham and Michael In December Cllr Geoff Reid, the current Lord Mayor of Bradford, popped into BCB’s studios. While he was here the Lord Mayor took a look around and joined

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BCB Newsletter – November 2016

WOW FM! Over the weekend of the 4-6th November, WOW! Bradford (Women of the World festival) took place at Kala Sangam Arts Centre. This great festival featured a number of discussions, panels and lectures that celebrated women and girls and

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BCB Newsletter – October 2016

BCB Gets Silver At The Yorkshire Gig Guide Awards! At The Yorkshire Gig Guide Grassroots Award 2016, BCB got Silver in the category for Outstanding Media. Al’s Dime Bar – whose show Dime Time goes out BCB every Tuesday 11-12am

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BCB Newsletter – September 2016

Sending off the Rock Against Racism Exhibition in Style! A local DJ on the set On Thursday 1st September, to send off the Rock Against Racism exhibition in style, Impressions Gallery and BCB Radio brought an eclectic and diverse group

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BCB Newsletter – August 2016

Live from Bradford: Love Music, Hate Racism As we approach the closing weekend of Rock Against Racism exhibition, BCB will be working together with Impressions Gallery to bring together an eclectic and diverse group of musicians and spoken word artists

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BCB Newsletter – July 2016

BCB at Bradford Festival Shamim Akhtar and Phillip Lickley at the festival on the Sunday This year’s Bradford Festival ran from 8-10th July and BCB broadcast live from City Park throughout the weekend. We would like to thank everyone who

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BCB Newsletter – June 2016

BCB at Rock Against Racism Launch Dipak and Pete chatting to Anne McNeill, Director of Impressions Gallery at the launch On Thursday 16th June, Impressions Gallery in Bradford launched its Rock Against Racism exhibition. At the event BCB’s Dipak Mistry

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BCB Newsletter – May 2016

BCB at the Bradford Literature Festival Bradford Literature Festival took place from 20-29 May, and BCB broadcast live from the festival from 5:30-6pm every night of the event. Throughout the festival, BCB’s Mary Dowson and Carole Moss spoke to Harry

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BCB Newsletter – April 2016

EurEval – Austrian Visitors to BCB! As mentioned in last month’s newsletter, BCB welcomed Helmut and Michael from Austrian training organisation Commit to Bradford. Over the course of the week they were here, Helmut and Michael interviewed local politicians such

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BCB Newsletter – March 2016

International Women’s Day Broadcast Our group of Guides broadcasting live on International Women’s Day On Tuesday 8th March,BCB celebrated and marked International Women’s Day by broadcasting a day of women only programming. The day was a great success and featured

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BCB Newsletter – February 2016

The month of February is special to us, and this one marked our 22nd anniversary. Can you guess how many broadcast hours that is? The answer is at the bottom of the newsletter. Refugee Arts and Crafts group BCB is

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Radio Venus 2024

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Radio Venus 2024 BCB celebrations International Women's Day 2024. Find out more!

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Listen again to a selection of our Black History Month shows celebrating Bradford’s African & African Caribbean communities.

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