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Programming consists of on-air presenter-banter with children, interspersed with request songs, comedy and competitions. In most hospitals, the programme is wired to speakers in wards, rather than actually broadcast, but a central studio, with on-air presenters, provides a focal point and base, and is open to children. There is a project under-way to carry feed from other hospitals in different time zones throughout the day, via the internet. Radio Lollipop is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, usually a mix of city business people, retirees and medical students, and usually operates in the evenings.
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Over time, emphasis shifted from the radio station to volunteers spending time on wards entertaining children in person, by playing games, doing arts and crafts, and reading stories. However, the "radio", with children's programming and often presenting on-air, remains a central part of the charity.
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for Children, where it provides play services to children in 390 beds on 21 wards. It originally broadcast radio from, and held play sessions in, a former
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tube train that was craned into the hospital and converted to house the Radio Lollipop studio.
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Radio Lollipop is in one of the largest specialist children referral hospitals in the world,
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providing a care, comfort, play and entertainment service for children in
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Radio programming and play interaction at the bedside and in the playrooms
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Radio Lollipop, Pediatrics Ward Block B at Gold Coast University Hospital
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Committee provided funding in 1980 to develop Radio Lollipops in other
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In 1985, the first Radio Lollipop outside the UK was started at the
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Starship hospital's atrium, location of its radio station
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Charlotte Building, 17 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QL
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University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
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