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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…