October 1974

Patients know David’s voice

MANY will know the voice, but few the face of 32 year old David Hutchins, who two years ago last weekend joined the staff of the North Humberside hospital broadcasting service.

David, of Cherry Garth, Beverley, is one of the radio station’s resident disc jockeys, and since joining he has interviewed many celebrities including Val Doonican, Cilla Black, Morecambe and Wise, Gene Pitney, Des O’Connor, Max Bygraves and many others.

Although time consuming and purely voluntary, David, a married man with three children, said this week that he enjoyed the work because it helped to cheer up unfortunate hospital patients.

When not at the stations studio in Wellington Street, Hull, David is employed as a confectioner baker at Rambla in Beverley.

The Hospital Broadcasting Service plays requests for patients in most hospitals in Hull, and for those in Beverley Westwood hospital, and Driffield General. It is hoped to begin broadcasts to Walkington's Broadgates Hospital in the early part of next year when new studios are completed in Beverley Road, in Hull.

The station broadcasts every day except Saturday and it is hoped that people wilt relatives or friends in hospital will make use of the record request form printed here.