Radio City 1386AM

It produces chat and news programmes, as well as playing music to patients at Singleton Hospital in Swansea.

The Swansea Hospitals Radio service was founded on 1 August 1966 by Robert Rees, David Vaughan and Clive Thomas - three school friends who had been watching a television programme on radio in hospitals run by voluntary groups.

The early programmes were recorded on tapes in people's houses including two of the initial DJs, Tim Richards and Tony Bowden.

In 1991 the old prefabricated studios, by now extremely dilapidated, were closed and broadcasts moved to smart new purpose-build facilities within the new wing of Singleton Hospital.

With the introduction of infection control and a squeeze on funding throughout the NHS, the provision of headphones became financially impossible, so that Radio City could continue broadcasting to patients £20,000 was raised through funding and donations to register a LPAM (Low Power AM) frequency, to coincide with the change of broadcasting Radio City 1386AM was launched.

Swansea Sound and Beacon Radio Clive Thomas - The Late President and founder of the service.

The reception area of Radio City 1386AM.
Studio 2, the main broadcast studio used by Radio City 1386AM
Radio City entrance