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BCB Newsletter – March 2024

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for March. Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: Radio Venus – IWD 8 March 2024              

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BCB Newsletter – December 2023

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for December. Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: BCB AGM 2023 Thanks to everyone who came to the this years AGM. As

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BCB Newsletter – April 2023

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for April Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: Radio Venus International Women’s Day 2023 A great big thanks to all the women

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BCB Newsletter – December 2022

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for December. Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: BCB AGM 2022 It was great to see so many people attending the BCB

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Hear My Voice

During Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 BCB, the community radio station for Bradford, is launching a radio project to raise awareness of mental health in the Bradford District. BCB has been awarded a small grant from Bradford Council to deliver

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BCB Newsletter – March 2022

Welcome to the BCB newsletter for March. Here’s just a few things that have been going on at BCB and some events that are coming up: Pop down to BCB / Extended opening hours It has been wonderful to welcome more

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BCB Newsletter – February 2022

Welcome to BCB: Hassan and Ash Some of you may have noticed a few new faces around BCB, specifically towards the back end of the office. These new faces are Hassan and Ash who will be working with us for

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BCB Newsletter – November 2021

BCB – We’re Back Great news – we’ve slowly started to reopen BCB again, with people coming in to record their programmes in the studios. And there was a momentous occasion on Wednesday when Alan and Tina presented Afternoon Stretch

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BCB Covid ‘Code of Conduct’ – October 2021

BCB Covid ‘Code of Conduct’ – October 2021 We are starting to re-open BCB Studios. Our aim is to keep everyone at BCB safe, secure, and healthy. We recognise that we are still in the middle of a pandemic and

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BCB Newsletter – September 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. BCB 3-Year plan: we need your help! BCB Management Committee and staff have

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BCB Newsletter – May 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. BCB Spring Break 10-16 May – Please read: Action Needed After

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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 in Covid times

Over these tough months of the Covid 19 pandemic, through the amazing commitment of our volunteers and staff team, BCB has continued to provide a valuable community radio service for Bradford. Working in our bedrooms and living rooms, we’ve discovered

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With a Little Help…

We’ve just provided a little help that will make a big difference to 16 young musicians. Under lockdown, these young people have lost access to equipment and expertise that has meant they were stuck, unable to be as creative as

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Track of the week!

As part of our commitment to Youth Music we feature a track made by young people (aged 12 – 25) in Bradford as the ‘Track of the Week‘ across our schedule. You’ll be able to hear the track in our About

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Refugee Week on BCB

Last week was Refugee Week 2020 and across the week, and in the buildup to, and we marked it with a variety of different guests and interviews. Here’s just some of the guests we had on. Friday 12th June  Refugee

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Call To Action / Update

This is an update and a call to action for all BCB presenters. Programme Pages Thanks to all the people that have sent us information about thier programmes for our new Programme Pages on the website: https://www.bcbradio.co.uk/programmes/ ACTION: We’re now asking

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Corona Chronicles – New BCB Project

We’ve just launched a new project at BCB, in partnership with the NSMM. It’s called The Corona Chronicles and its aim is to create an audio archive of life in Bradford during the Covid-19 lockdown. We want to capture the

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Editing a video call recording

We’re still finding ways to improve our remote broadcasting, to make it more efficient and easier so we can get more people set up to do it. Over the past few weeks we’ve been looking at doing programmes and interviews

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Helping Bring Bradford Together: Bradford Pride and Bradford City Fire Memorial Service

COVID-19 and the ensuing lockdown have meant that many staple events in the Bradford calendar have had to find different ways to operate, and we’re happy to have helped two of the most important to happen. Bradford Pride Saturday saw

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Positive Numbers: Programmes and Programme Pages

We’re getting more and more people producing programmes remotely. Last week we hit the milestone of 70 new and remotely recorded programmes being broadcast on BCB – which is great. Through helping people set up to remotely record we’ve found

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BCB Website: Programme Pages, Presenter Profiles, Music Blog

We’ve been doing some work on the BCB website over the past few weeks and there are a few things we wanted to tell you about. Programme Pages We’ve added a new section for programme pages, as some of you

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Progammes Pages, Round Table and Radio Premieres

Programme Pages Over the past week we’ve doing some work on the website, in particular the new programme page section. The plan is that every BCB programme will have its own individual page with: 1) a brief programme description, 2)

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67 New Shows, Remote Working and Getting Set Up!

More presenters, more new shows Last week we had 67 new shows go out on BCB and more presenters producing radio at home. Among the presenters creating their first “lockdown” shows were: Maureen Grant, Ian Forward, Malcolm Currie, Maria Spadafora

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Some good news to end the week!

Internet woes – an end to? As some of you may know we’ve been having serious issues with out internet recently, which has hampered our ability to work from home / broadcast online (thanks to a workaround we’ve managed to

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There are many ways to record remotely

As a staff team we’ve been looking to different methods of recording and producing radio remotely, and have found lots of options. Here are some of the options we are looking at: VoiceMeeter Banana Open Broadcast Software Mixxx Clean Feed

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New shows, Social Media and Staff

More presenters and new shows! Yet more people are managing to prepare shows from home for broadcast. Today Shamim Akhtar, who presents About Bradford every Thursday 11-12pm, put together her first remote About Bradford including interviews with Reverend Jenny Ramsden,

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50 new shows last week

Last week, we broadcast around 50 new programmes produced and presented from home, so congratulations to everyone who’s broadcast a programme so far. If you’re still setting up at home and need any help, please contact us and we’ll get

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..and we’re back!

We bodged up a fix for the internet broadcast stream over the weekend. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially the Community Media Association and their excellent documentation.  It wasn’t quite sticky tape and plasters, but not far off. On the

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Today: Internet, Ofcom, and Youth Work

Internet woes Unfortunately the internet into and out of the building at BCB has been down for much of the last 24 hours. We’re at the mercy of Virginmedia, so apologies if you’ve not been able to listen. Many of

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Getting connected and losing connections

Today we’ve done some more work on setting us up for remote working. Rocket.Chat for instant messaging, and CryptPad for shared documents – both these services are way more respectful than most of privacy, and will allow us to store

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Working remotely

We’re trying our best to work out how everyone can work and contribute remotely. Today I’ve been working on software/hardware support to try make sure we can communicate, and access the studio remotely. We’re using Jitsi to teleconference, and that

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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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Radio Venus Workshops – Make a Movie on your phone!

Following on from our recent IWD Radio Venus workshops and broadcast we are planning to organise regular women’s training events/workshops/get togethers. The first one will be Make a Movie on your Phone!. Jenny Eells, who you may know from the

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International Women’s day Broadcast

Tune in from 8am- midnight for a full day of fine female broadcasting on BCB Radio! Bradford women have their say – loud and proud! Some of the daytime highlights: 08:00 – 09:00 Venus Breakfast Kirsten England, CEO of Bradord

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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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Listen Again service

We are pleased to say that the Listen Again service has now been resumed. Thanks for bearing with us.

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BCB Wins Award!

BCB106.6FM has been awarded the Radio Academy Nations and Regions Yorkshire and Humber radio station of the year for 2013. We were presented with the award at a ceremony in Leeds on December 19th. The Chair of Judges said: “Capturing

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Welcome

BCB106.6FM is the Community Radio station for Bradford, broadcasting distinctive radio programmes made by, and for, the people of Bradford. BCB106.6FM broadcasts a wide range of radio programmes, reflecting the cultural diversity in the city. We particularly encourage the participation

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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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A celebration of the 75th anniverary of Windrush across the Bradford District. Listen Here

Refugee Week 2023

Tune in for a unique range of distinctly Bradford shows and interviews on Refugee Week 2023.

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BCB Music Showcase

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Black History Month

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

10 Today project

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Let's do 10 mins exercise on the radio! Join us 2pm every day on BCB Radio 106.6fm Read more

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