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Join us on the brighter side
Meet the team that brings you a brighter mix of great music, trusted local information and good company.
featured highlights
Growing Together
The brighter gardening show with Ann-Marie Powell and Claire Vennis. Grow with us every month.
Talking Books
Published author Suzie Wilde and bookshop owner Tim O’Kelly explore their love of books, the joy of stories and the craft of writing.
the P pod
Our flagship weekly show packed with Petersfield personalities and their real-life stories. Presented by Claire Vennis and Joff Lacey.
Wilde Walks
Inspirational walks in beautiful countryside around Petersfield with author Suzie Wilde and her labrador Raine.
Petersfield Weather
Local meteorologist Richard Marks draws on decades of experience observing the weather conditions of Petersfield’s unique local microclimate.
Sports Chat
Comedian Alistair Barrie joins Dave Bowers and James Robbins for lively chat around current sports issues
latest listening
Morning Report – Wednesday 2 December
Dave Williams and Lucy Davies present today’s essential local information, collated and fact-checked by the Shine Radio volunteer team. Today, opposition to the proposed new Aldi store on Frenchmans Road, local house prices receive a boost from being in a national park and the latest fundraiser from Petersfield Lions.
Residents are concerned a new Aldi store will increase traffic
People living close to a proposed new Aldi store in Petersfield are worried that it could increase the amount of traffic near their homes.
Morning Report – Tuesday 1 December
Welcome to the final month of 2020. Joff Lacey and Lucy Davies bring you an update of local Petersfield information, including news, weather and roadworks.
Talking Books Café – 30 November 2020
Tim and Suzie start their fortnightly catch up. bite-size chunks so you can have a cuppa, grab a biscuit, whatever. It’s pure pleasure – so join in twitter, FB or online.
The Liss Forest mum helping to make advent more musical
A violinist from Liss Forest is among a group of mums and professional musicians who have produced a musical advent calendar.
Petersfield’s Christmas lights switch-on, 2020 style
Petersfield Town Council has released a fun video presentation showing how this year’s Christmas Lights were prepared and switched on by the Mayor, councillor Lesley Farrow.
Morning Report – Monday 30 November
Harrison RB and James Birdseye bring you local news and information for Petersfield and its villages. Including news of Petersfield schools that have made the Sunday Times Parent Power Top 100.
Christmas is here, says Collabro’s Michael Auger
Petersfield performer Michael Auger joins Shine Radio’s Noni Needs for our first play of the new Collabro song, Christmas is Here.
What we can and cannot do within Petersfield’s Tier 2 restrictions
See the official Government and NHS guide to Tier 2 restrictions which apply from Wednesday 2 December in Petersfield.
Morning Report – Friday 27 November
The week ends in tiers again. Harrison, Laura and Noni have all the information about what Tier 2 means for Petersfield, agreement on a free parking plan for Christmas shoppers in Petersfield plus the rest of today’s essential local information.
Wilde Walk – at Durford Wood with Christmas
It could be Scotland. Suzie pauses in a conifer wood, where loggers are clearing stands of trees. Raine chases a deer (the wrong way) as rain falls gently. What will Christmas look like for the Wildes? Icelandic! (This tradition is known as Jolabokaflod, which translates roughly to “Christmas book flood” in English.)
Morning Report – Thursday 26 November
Direct from Tilmore and Liss, Dave Williams and Noni Needs present essential local information for Petersfield and its villages. Also featuring Lucy Davies at the weather board, Laura Sheppard reporting on the visitors centre plans and Nicola Winter of Home Start Butser.
Thanksgiving in Steep
Thanksgiving in Steep
Genevieve Hayes and Debora Harding share their menus, recipes and memories and neighbourghly love of Thanksgivng with Noni Needs.
the P pod – 25 November
Shirley Leader of Velvet & Rose explains why her mannequins have turned their backs on you, Jon Walker describes the inner pages of the Petersfield Post, there’s live local music and a Wilde Walk too. All with Claire and Joff in lockdown.
More than 400 local sites are suitable for new trees
Trees could be planted in more than four hundred places across Petersfield. That’s the number of appropriate new sites for trees discovered by volunteers working with the Petersfield Society. Andy Moffat explains more.
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As a not-for-profit project run by volunteers in the local community we rely on the generosity of people like you.
Please consider making a donation to support our volunteers and to help provide Petersfield with the radio service it deserves.
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Lottery
Buy tickets in the East Hampshire Community Lottery.
When you choose Petersfield Community Radio as your good cause we receive 50p for every ticket you buy.
Supporters
We’re proud to be sponsored and supported by local companies and organisations. You can support our project too.
Petersfield Town Council awarded our volunteer team a grant in January 2020 to help develop the 24 hour radio service. With the council’s support and further fundraising we launched Petersfield’s Shine Radio on 15 August 2020.
Church service crowdfunder
Our crowdfunder campaign is now closed and we exceeded our appeal target.
Thanks to you we can now plan to bring live services from St Peter’s Church to the widest possible number of radio listeners, including vulnerable and isolated people in our area.
Give time
Project volunteers have fun making radio programmes and help to run things behind the scenes.
We rely on a wide range of skills, both technical and creative so if you’re reliable, commited and community-spirited join our team.
Open invitation
Whether you bring years of radio experience or just a passion for Petersfield, everybody’s welcome in our volunteer team.
Open up
Find the unique personal stories and experiences of Petersfield people. Take the initiative and make great radio.
Open learning
Learn media skills alongside broadcasting and journalism professionals who live locally and support our project.
News about our project
Radio team honoured in the Petersfield Awards
The volunteer team collected the winner’s prize in the Arts & Entertainment category of this year’s awards.
Crowdfunding appeal to bring church services to radio listeners
People across Petersfield could enjoy live church services via Shine Radio in beautiful stereo sound if a crowdfunding project achieves its aim of raising £1,800 by the end of the month.
Green-fingered talent to Shine on town’s radio service
Multi-award winning garden designer and TV gardening presenter Ann-Marie Powell is the latest recruit to Petersfield’s new radio station, Shine Radio.
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