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What people say about 10Radio

Recent comments from our listeners

I really admire what all of you have done with, and for, such a (relatively) small population base. You have shown what can be achieved

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Stumbled upon you last week - very fine community radio with attitude - shout out to Staffordshire - wish they could do as well as you!

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Everyone here thinks your show is much better than Jonathan Ross. Big shout from the Ashburton possie!

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Listening to your show in Birmingham. It's great to hear some intelligent discussion about todays sport

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I accidentally/serendipitously came across your station today during the Classical programme (I was actually trying to tune into the BBC on my Internet wifi radio) and thoroughly enjoyed it - I think you may have a new convert here in Berlin!

The September 2005 RSL

The local impact of 10Radio exceeded everyone's expectations many times over. Here is a selection of the comments received

The Listeners

Thank you 10Radio. It has been wonderful listening to 10Radio grow in confidence during its time on air. The standard has gone up and up - well done to DJs, presenters and technicians all.
I hope you can all get another licence so that we can have more great programmes and show the professionals that there is a lot of talent in the 10 parishes.

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Katie & Hannah - Have really enjoyed listening to your shows, you mindless chatter & sense of humour has made me laugh and smile. You have been great presenters.

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I cannot tell you how wonderful it has been listening to 10Radio! Lovely to here such different tastes in music, local information and listen to pillars of our community talk. I do not know how I will cope when you are no longer broadcasting. Well done to all that were involved in this mammoth task.

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What a great month of radio! The wonderful ramblings of the "Bantering Boys, Readings of Dylan Thomas, the slick presentation of Jess & Chris,Godfreys surf reports and of course "Crazy Kate" (was it the vicar she had just interviewed, which she followed by playing that lovely thrash metal ditty "I wanna go to a gay bar!!!")..I loved it

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Hello to all of you at 10Radio I've been meaning to write for ages to say how much we like your broadcasts and to congratulate you on such a varied, interesting and truly local radio. It's been heard loud and clear here on the outskirts of Bathealton from the beginning and our radios at home have been preset to 87.7fm from the start. So naturally we hope that you will find a way to do it all over again (supposing you have the time and the energy!) and are writing to express our support for it. We've particulary enjoyed the breakfast show and its presenters and the interviews with local people (Ralph's talks with Ron Greenway and Graham Berthon spring immediately to mind), the wide range of music, progammes giving lots of local information, such as those presented by Pauline Homeshaw and Mary Whitburn, Nigel Parkin's organ loft, the Extreme Bantering - well all of it really! And Jed, Sam and Zoe have made our day on many an occasion!
Once again, many thanks for all your entertainment and information and good luck with any future project you may have.

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Just to say I have hugely enjoyed listening to 10Radio. You even broke a lifetime habit of morning listening to Radio 4's Today programme!
I have always thought that true community radio was the most exciting way to go and you have fully confirmed that belief. Just looking at the website humming away confirmed the great level of commitment and enjoyment the station has generated.

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We wanted to put fingers to keyboard to say how much we've been enjoying 10Radio throughout September. Our radios have all been re-tuned for the duration (except when we travelled to Bournemouth and ran out of signal.)
It's been enormously entertaining. The range of programme content has been terrific, with music that we've not heard before. Many of the items have been informative about the area and it's people and it has been great hearing the regular presenters really blossom as they have grown in confidence. And the production of Mort has been good - looking forward to the final episode tomorrow. I enjoyed doing my two programmes, despite the nerves, and would be thrilled to have the chance again sometime.
It's been particularly good to hear the children taking such an active part. This really is what community radio is meant to be about, and we will miss it after it has gone. We hope you'll be back and if there's anything we can do to help with this, let us know.
Best regards and good luck for future broadcastng

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Congratulations on 10Radio - the more I hear it, the more I like it! Especially the variety of the programming and the sense that it's a station for all of us, not trying (most of the time) to copy super-smooth corporate radio.

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It has been lovely listening to all the different presenters from the super confident to those who your heart went out to as they fumbled with the technology - I have never met Katie from the breakfast show but the next time I see a pink haired lady in Wivey I will stop her!! - she was a natural and made our mornings. It is lovely to hear such a cross section of people on one radio station, you never know what kind of music you are going to hear next it's like have Radio 1,2,3 and 4 all rolled into one! - I am sure you have had alot of listeners just like me, too scared to ring in for fear of being put out live on air!! You will be sadly missed in our house.

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Hey 10Radio, I just want to say well done i think everyone on the radio has done rely well !!!! thank you for playing cold play for me and my friends i hope the 10 radio is back again next year. WELL DONE!

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Checked in to your internet feed last evening and listened to the 1hr Rotary programme. Congratulations and well done. I hope your 4 weeks of effort has gone well. Here in Hamilton, New Zealand, we have a Community Radio station on air 24/7. Hearing what the Wiveliscombe Rotary Club has done, will hopefully encourage my Club to do something similar.

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I think 10Radio has been absolutely brilliant and can't wait for it to come back on Air again. I have listened to more radio in the last few weeks than I have in all my 43 years.
Thank you everybody for such fantastic entertainment. It has really brought the community together. I shall really miss listening to you all. Well done to everybody involved.

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The Presenters and Volunteers

as someone who, by default has to do a certain amount of community work in art projects, I would endorse this (10Radio) as the best community project I have ever been invloved with

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Guy's what can I say....... You've given me & mine so much. everything feels so empty now, now I don't know what to do with my fingers(no suggestions needed) But I know we`ll be back bigger & even better next year. Thank you all so much for letting me get involved, I've made some great new friends.

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10Radio has been fantastic!
A brilliant example of a community project that has involved all kinds of people working together to make something happen...
And what talent is out there in Wivey and the 10 parishes!
Will miss the breakfast show (the Today programme will be positively boring), and the great world music that's been played over the last month...not to mention the local info, hearing about all the interesting things that go on, hearing the stories of friends and people we know...
Definitely want to be more than just a listener next year.....

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I dont know what I am going to do with myself these days. It feels like 10Radio has been going on for years non stop. I will 100% miss everyone who made 10Radio what it is.

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These last weeks have been amazing. Until so recently, few of us thought that we would ever sit behind a broadcast mic, and yet it happened! Only 5 weeks ago, we looked at the studio and wondered how we would ever manage - not only to drive the desk, but to fill the hours. The time seems to have flown by - and I'm still gutted at missing most of the final week by being in hospital. The day seems empty now - no programmes to make and nothing decent to listen to. It hit hard yesterday morning when I got in the car, and the radio - tuned of course to 87.7 - just hissed at me!
We have all done so much and met so many fantastic people. The support from the community has been amazing - I found it almost surreal to be told in the C-op 'you're on the radio - I recognize your voice'. And I'm a foreigner - not only a Devonian, but living in Cotford!
Thanks again to everyone who has been involved in 10Radio, and especially to the breakfast crew - it's been an amazing, life-changing experience and I can't wait until we can do it all again.

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I'd like to say a big thank you to Julian and Barbara for being such a solid and consistent back bone throughout all the stages but also for being great enablers and facilitators of other people's talents, inputs and efforts.
This meant that it really was a true team effort, with everyone pulling lots of weight over the whole range of things that needed to be done. Everyone I think felt it was their station and something they were proud of and therefore concerned to see work as a whole. Everyone helped everyone else, either by teaching them to use the studio desk, sitting next to them on the studio desk, encouraging each other to go on air, supporting them from the reception side, making sure colleague's pre-recorded programmes went out....
I have been involved in lots of community projects in the city but I have never seen one work like this. Such a range of ages, backgrounds, styles etc all working together and complementing (and complimenting!) each other. When I walked through the Bear on Saturday night I saw all these people who hadn't been involved in the project and thought for a second -- what did we do wrong? How come all these people weren't involved?! But then I reminded myself that we couldn't have had 3000 odd people involved but what we did have was people representing every corner of the communities of the 10 parishes -- either producing or presenting programmes or coming in to talk about what they do or think. I don't think we could have been more representative. And that was about the atmosphere that emerged that everyone involved created -- welcoming to everyone and anyone who wanted to have a go.
It could be said that it would have been nice to have a printed schedule from the beginning, just so listeners knew what was on, but it was the fact that we had lots of gaps in the schedule (and volunteer timetable) that meant that it could always welcome in new people who had been inspired by listening or who hadn't had the time of the confidence to plan ahead. Although there was lots of pre-planning and training, it really was a project that evolved as it went on air and that was one of its biggest strengths. It was never too late to get involved. Also, no-one seemed to complain about not knowing what was on next -- cos they ended up listening and enjoying whatever was on. Here's to random, dedicated community radio listening!
And I have never heard a station or been involved in a community project that produced and put out such a wide range of 'projects' all running alongside each other -- all different styles of music and presenting it , creative writing, poetry, stories, radio play, reports from abroad, interviews, local news, local politics, surfing reports, film sound tracks, live music, serious features, sport, teenage fun, religion, sacrilege, gorgeous family efforts, duo efforts, trio efforts, individual efforts.....
I too felt very sad when I got in my car on Sunday and all I got was a dull fizz -- and that wasn't just my head. And now at 11.30 I'm very sad that I am having to work on my computer without Steve Eagle's gorgeous tones and tunes to soften the blow of a Monday morning back at work.
I love and will miss you all....

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Just wanted to add my thanks and congratulations to everybody involved with 10Radio. It's been a real privilege to be involved with the project and just amazing to meet so many different people over the course of the past 2 months. It really has be a truly remarkable project. 5 'o'clock in the morning will never seem the same again - and Terry Wogan eat your heart out - the breakfast team will be back.

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It's been a privilege to have been part of such a staggeringly good and cheerful grassroots project. A few days before the launch the proverbial blank piece of paper was just that. Thanks especially to Julian, Barbara, Ben & Kim for having faith that it wouldn't stay blank too long! Thanks to everybody involved for being such great team-mates. Signing off on air was a real emotional wrench, just as it is now. Looking forward greatly to the off-air reunions and events - and to 10Radio - The Return.

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All these emails are really cutting me up, there seems to be a really big hole left in my life, even though i do have loads of stuff i should be doing, i am walking round in a daze missing being on 10Radio, listening to 10Radio, phoning in to competitions, phoning in to say, "your not close enough to the mic" (lol) , missing thinking about what i might say on my next programme, or how i might wind up Ralph or Mr Tucker! I miss all the new freinds ive made, chatting, laughing, talking about the different radio programes everyones making, (sniff) its so sad its over, but didnt we end on a high, we left them wanting more, we left them wanting to be involved "themselves" next year, how fantastic is that? We made something special happen in our special comunity, we got people talking that never spoke before, we got people thinking about topics they had never even heard of, we told people of events and resorces available to "them" that they never even knew existed, "WE" brought together people from all walks of life, who could ever have "IMAGINED" that two blokes dreams could have made such magic

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It was such good fun all that radio malarky. Thanks to all of you who made it that way, we definitely must do it again sometime.

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What can I say?Thank you all for sharing the last few months with me and for experiencing one of the most amazing projects ever.

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It's no fun putting the radio on any more! There's no-one on that I know...and the music thay're playing is just TOO predictable. Only a month on air and it seemed like home. Roll on next year!!!

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My family have just released me from my Tomb to read my e mails - and I can quite understand why everyone is so nostalgic ( already !) 10Radio became a way of life for so many - young & old - those involved and probably more importantly our many fans/ listeners.

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I am lost for words as regards describing my experiences with 10radio. All I can say is that I will never ever forget the month of September 2005 Wahoo!!! Everyone connected with the project was so friendly, positive and helpful and I count them as true friends. It just had to be a success which has made Wiveliscombe an even better place to live in. It seems inadequate to say Thank-you everyone but I mean it sincerely.

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Just wanted to add my tuppence-worth to all the other comments. It was a great privilege to be involved in this project, and rarely, if ever, have I come across such a positive bunch of people as you lot. With that amount of energy, who knows what can be achieved in the future?
I don't know about you, but dealing with the mundane things in life (such as working) seemed a whole lot easier knowing I'd soon be back in range of 87.7 -it seemed like meeting up with an unpredictable and exciting old friend every day.
Anyway, I can think of a stack of things we could / should do next time as long as, and here I totally agree with Kim and others, we don't lose that free-wheelin' style that evolved.

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