2007 sees Radio General celebrating 50 years of playing record requests for patients in Warrington Hospital.

It all started back in 1957 after some members of the then Warrington Council of Youth' visited an existing hospital radio station in Stockport.

At first it was planned to go around the wards with a record player, but at the suggestion of the hospital's secretary, it was decided to use the existing network used for rugby commentaries.

After months of planning the Hospital Request Broadcast Scheme, as it was then known, started broadcasting on November 7, 1957 with a taped message from the Mayor of Warrington.

At first, records were borrowed. They were collected during the week, played and then returned. Teams took it in turn to collect requests or present the programmes. Broadcasts were originally on a Thursday evening and Sunday morning.

Today they broadcast 24-hours-a-day from purposebuilt studios in the hospital's main entrance and a patients' request show is broadcast every day.

To celebrate this milestone, Radio General is compiling a series of special programmes. We are looking for past members to take a trip down memory lane and look back over their time they were at the station.

The radio station has been known as Radio General from the 60s, but it only became its registered name in 1998.