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S E R E N A D E   R A D I O 

The Best in Easy Listening

In our fast-paced modern world it's important to have an escape. Serenade Radio is just that.

Sometimes, it's an escape into the past with a wealth of great songs written at a time when quality was paramount. At other times, we long for the gentler, more carefree world of our childhood. Often, all it takes is a good song well sung, to refresh the soul.

This on-line radio station was born out of a real appetite to hear those great songs from that golden era of song writing. Not just the occasional treat, buried in a sea of pop mediocrity, but all day every day.

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From Frank Sinatra to The Carpenters; Bing Crosby to Bread; Ella Fitzgerald to Michael Buble. You get the idea.

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HOW TO LISTEN

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Just ask your smart speaker to 'play Serenade Radio'.

Or  - on your phone or tablet, find Serenade Radio on one of the general radio listening apps.

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Or - you can listen to us on your PC, laptop or tablet by just clicking  at  the top right of this page next to the arrow.

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*Hot  News!  For a limited period, you can now enjoy Serenade Radio on DAB in Dorset only. Just re-scan your DAB set if you cannot see us listed.

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Any problems? Drop us a line and we'll do our best to help.

There are lots of ways to hear us - but we're not generally* found on your FM/DAB radio set. (*apart from in Dorset!)

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Or indeed on a crystal set.

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MONDAY - FRIDAY

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6.0        THE QUIET HOUR

                            with

    JANE MARKHAM

Conjuring up just the right

morning mood.

7.0       ANDY MARRIOTT

Start the day right with Andy as breakfast  is served.

9.30         MUSIC WHILE

YOU WORK

Calling all Forces overseas and workers at home, a special half-hour of music.

10.0           BRIAN SAVIN

with two hours of the finest easy listening, or quality with a capital K, as he would have it.

12.0   Mon - Thur: MUSIC BOX

SIMON McLEAN  with an hour of mostly instrumental music.

Fri:  CROONERS' CLUB

A weekly gathering to pay homage to

the best song stylists and the

songwriters who inspired them.

Chairman: JOHN WALTON

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1.0              PAUL ROBEY

                               is your 

     lively afternoon entertainer with the        softer side of the '60s and '70s.

3.0            JOHN DARVALL

with some great swinging music plus on the half hour the Serenade Spotlight falls on a famous music maker.

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6.0              PROGRAMMES

      as above from 6.0 a.m.

SATURDAY

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6.0      A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC

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7.0           STEPHEN JAMES

As another weekend begins, 

Stephen keeps you company.

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10.0          GREAT OLDIES

from the 1960s and 70s

plus a few surprises

with

JEFF OWEN

12.0        MUSIC CAVALCADE

with 

JOHN WALTON

A diverse miscellany of skilled musical arrangers, inspired close harmony groups, master crooners and divas of delight.

3.0         WEEKEND COMPANY

with

DAVID LLOYD

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5.0       THE TELEVISION SHOW

with

ANDY MARRIOTT

TV nostalgia and  the music which would herald our favourite programmes.

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6.0             SHOWSTOPPERS

Music from stage and screen with

ELAINE MOORE

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8.0            DINNER AT EIGHT

Cocktails followed by a cosy candlelit supper. Your Master of Ceremonies SIMON McLEAN

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9.0             HOME OF THE STARS

with

KEVIN TAYLOR

Music and stories from Palm Springs. 

11.0          LATE NIGHT EXTRA

a selection of rare and melodic

1960s tunes with

STEPHEN JAMES

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12.0              PROGRAMMES

      as above from midday

CALLING ALL WORKERS!

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 80 years ago, 'Music While You Work' began on the BBC.  

Announced in the Radio Times as a “half hour’s music meant specially for factory workers to listen to as they work”,  it soon proved a favourite with all listeners, as its familiar signature tune by Eric Coates  rang out.

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Hear its story with Brian Savin on August Bank Holiday Monday at 12.0

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SUNDAY

6.0       A LITTLE LIGHT MUSIC

7.0           STEPHEN JAMES

Stephen sets the mood for a

traditional British Sunday.

10.0              EASY LIKE

A SUNDAY MORNING

with

KRISSI CARPENTER

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12.0         MUSIC CAVALCADE

with

JOHN WALTON

​3.0       WEEKEND COMPANY

with

DAVID LLOYD

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5.0    SING SOMETHING SIMPLE

The Adams Singers

Directed by CLIFF ADAMS
Accompanied by JACK EMBLOW

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5.30    STRINGTIME SERENADE

Half an hour of music from

101 STRINGS ORCHESTRA.   

Introduced by GERALD BAXTER

6.0            SOUNDS FROM

THE BOTTOM DRAWER

ROBERT WALTON  rummages in his bottom drawer filled with original 78s.

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7.0    THE LIGHT PROGRAMME

with

DAVID CORBETT

Two hours of Light Music

and Light Classical Music.

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9.0      HOME OF THE STARS

KEVIN TAYLOR  

entertains from our studio in Palm Springs, California.

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11.0         AN HOUR OF JAZZ

with

JOHN HELLINGS

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12.0          PROGRAMMES

as above from midday

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6.0              PROGRAMMES

  as above from 6.0 a.m

Serenade Radio

The best in easy listening

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