Radio Horton

Radio Horton is the hospital radio of Banbury, in North Oxfordshire - officially the hospital, health and wellbeing broadcasting service for the town. It has been entertaining patients at the Horton General Hospital since 1964 and marked its 60th anniversary in July 2024.

Run entirely by volunteers, it broadcasts across the hospital and local care homes with programmes built to ease a hospital stay: music and easy listening, entertainment and gentle topical discussion, plus the classic hospital-radio tradition of patient requests. The Banbury roots show - the station has even brought Fairport Convention, the town's famous folk-rock sons, to the patients, and it has donated WiFi radios to wards.

Beyond the bedside, the service streams online at radiohorton.co.uk, so families and the wider community can listen too. It is nonprofit, community-powered radio at its most British - and its most kind.