Hospital Radio Requests
So this evening two guys from Hospital Radio come on the ward to see if we wanted any requests played. Apparently the E wards are always on the Sunday show. The mail in the bed next to me asked for Blondie and the Sex Pistols. The older man at the end of the ward wanted bagpipe music as he plays himself. Not surprisingly they played Amazing Grace. Then they got to me.
"Do you have anything by Yoko Kanno or Joe Hisaishi?" I ask.
Silence and two of the blankest faces I have ever seen.
"Let's try something closer to home, do you have any Barry Gray?"
There's a flicker of what might have been recognition from one of the volunteers, so I push further. "Do you remember Thunderbirds?"
The penny dropped and they said they could probably play me the Thunderbirds March.
And they did.
"Do you have anything by Yoko Kanno or Joe Hisaishi?" I ask.
Silence and two of the blankest faces I have ever seen.
"Let's try something closer to home, do you have any Barry Gray?"
There's a flicker of what might have been recognition from one of the volunteers, so I push further. "Do you remember Thunderbirds?"
The penny dropped and they said they could probably play me the Thunderbirds March.
And they did.