Doors Open Day is coming up from 11 to 17 September where historic buildings across the city will be allowing public access to increase civic pride and boost cultural awareness.
We visited Hospital Broadcasting Service (HBS) who are allowing people to come up and help them run a live show.
We visited Hospital Broadcasting Service (HBS) who are allowing people to come up and help them run a live show.
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00:00 I'm Neil Anderson, the chairman of Glasgow's Hospital Broadcasting Service.
00:03 The Doors Open Day is something that we've thought about for many years, but we've never
00:09 quite been in the position to open the doors up of the studios until this year.
00:14 And we're really looking forward to having people in on the weekend of Saturday the 16th
00:20 and Sunday the 17th of September, where we're going to be open for people just to pop in,
00:24 don't need to pre-book, just pop into the building at Baltic Chambers, which is at number
00:29 50 Wellington Street.
00:31 We're up on the fourth floor, there is disabled access, so we should be able to cope with
00:36 anyone's requirements who are coming along to have a look.
00:40 And if you pop in and see us, then we're going to let you see the programmes which are being
00:46 broadcast.
00:47 We're doing a special weekend of Doors Open Day events, and we're going to have people
00:52 out at other venues doing live reports and finding out what other venues are doing, what
00:58 is on offer for people to go and see if they want to visit somewhere else.
01:02 But if it's just here that they're visiting, then they can see a display on more than 50
01:08 years of our service, starting in 1970.
01:12 They can also be in a studio just like this one, in fact, probably this one, and learn
01:18 how music and jingles all get played and how the microphones work and the red lights coming
01:23 on, all the things that you associate with radio.
01:27 And they can also find out about the production work that goes on and how we manage to maintain
01:32 a 24-hour a day, seven-day-a-week service.
01:36 HBS, as we commonly get known, or longer name the Hospital Broadcasting Service, is the
01:42 longest running radio station in Glasgow.
01:46 We predate Radio Clyde by a few years and BBC Radio Scotland by almost a decade.
01:52 And the thing that is key to what we do, obviously, is contact with the patients.
02:00 What we're trying to do is provide a positive distraction to an unusual environment that
02:07 the person is in.
02:08 So for most people coming to the hospital, we hope it's not too regular an occurrence.
02:13 So if that's the case, then it's somewhere that they've probably not been before.
02:17 It's unfamiliar.
02:18 If you're in one of the new hospitals, you get your own room.
02:22 But again, that can be quite isolating because you don't have anyone to chat to and you maybe
02:26 have staff popping in and out, but they don't really have time to chat these days.
02:31 If you're in one of the older wards, you might be in a room with three or four other people,
02:36 in which case it's kind of an unusual environment of spending the day and the night in a room
02:42 with people who initially will be strangers anyway.
02:46 So what we're trying to do is give people the opportunity to have requests, take part
02:53 in competitions and quizzes, just positively distract people, give them some level of familiarity,
02:59 and help to relieve a bit of the pressure, a little bit of the tension that they're under.
03:04 And that actually aids the recovery process as well.
03:08 So it's kind of a win-win.