Red Kite Radio

21/08/2024

DOUBLE DUTIES FOR PAUL HIGGS TODAY
Published Wednesday

Fans of ebullient presenter Paul Higgs are in for a treat today. In addition to presenting his fabulous fun filled Drivetime show which is on right now until 6pm, Paul is sitting in for Howard Bond on the Eighties Rewind from 7-9pm this evening.

So don’t forget to keep your radio dial tuned to 107.2fm this afternoon and keep it there all evening!

21/08/2024

MID MORNING SHOW
Published Wednesday

Saturday Lunchbox presenter Heather Jan Brunt (pictured) is sitting in for Howard Bond on the Mid-Morning Show from 10am through to 12noon today. Tune in on 107.2fm for a great mix of classic hits and local event information.

20/08/2024

NINETIES MAGIC
Published Tuesday

If you’re a fan of Nineties music don’t miss the Nineties Rewind here on Red Kite Radio, starting any minute, this evening from 7-9pm. This week the show will be presented by Donald McFarlane, sitting in for Daryl Ridgley.

Following Donald, Annette Luck (pictured) will be on air with Motown Magic from 9-10pm; and then Donald will return with his own show, The Weekday Wind Down from 10-11pm.

20/08/2024

20/08/2024

THE MID-MORNING SHOW
Published Tuesday

On today’s Mid Morning Show, Paul Higgs (pictured) is your host, sitting in for Howard Bond who is having a well deserved rest. Join Paul from 10am through to 12noon here on 107.2fm, online at redkiteradio.com or via your smart speaker for classic hits and lots of local event information.

Paul’s own show is Drivetime on weekdays from 4-6pm so he will be back on air this afternoon! Be sure not to miss his fun filled show, with Caraoke just after 5pm.

19/08/2024

It's back tomorrow! Community Day at the Thame Tuesday Charter Market. Head along and show your support. It's a great fun day for the whole family with face painting, a bouncy castle, entertainers, and more.
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19/08/2024

19th August 2024 Thame now has a public water drinking fountain. If you’re visiting the town centre, bring your water bottle and fill it up outside the Town Hall.

18/08/2024

ON YOUR RED KITE RADIO TODAY
Published Sunday

On air right now, Annette Luck with Sunday Breakfast through to 10am.

From 10m through to 1pm John Reid-Hansen presents Sunday Brunch and his guests today are Morag, a senior nurse at Helen and Douglas House Hospice, and Anthony, a key figure in Thame Cycling Club.

Morag and Anthony (pictured) are going to be talking about a cycling challenge taking place on Saturday 31st August to raise money for the hospice.

Members of Thame Cycling Club are going to cycle up and down Aston Hill near Lewknor at least 76 times to match the height of Mount Everest. With help from the local community, they may even do it twice. So do tune into Sunday Brunch to hear all about this incredible fund raising challenge.

And if you would like to join in the ride or/and donate and help the cause then follow this link to the Just Giving page, where you will find all the details and where you can donate: https://www.justgiving.com/page/1713196715087thame-cycling-club

Following John’s show The Sunday Afternoon Session with Paul Nichoas starts at 1pm and Paul’s featured artist this week is the incredible Celine Dion, so we’ll all be looking forward to some power ballads.

Paul continues on air with The Acoustic Hour from 3-4pm.

Hannah Austin takes over from 4-7pm with the Noughties ‘Til Now Show; then it’s Sunday Rocks from 7-10pm; until the evening ends with The Breakaway Blues Show presented by Graham Andrews from 10-11pm.

Tune into Red Kite Radio on 107.2fm, online at redkiteradio.com or via your smart speaker. We are the local community station for Thame, Haddenham, Princes Risborough, Chinnor, Butlers Cross, Great Kimble, Stoke Mandeville, Brill, Towersey, Bishopstone and all the surrounding villages in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. And through the power of the internet we have listeners from all over the country and even the world! Welcome to all of you.

17/08/2024

FREE LIVE MUSIC EVENT
Published Saturday

If you are free this afternoon and fancy a relaxing afternoon of free live music, pop along to The Three Horseshoes Pub in Towersey where there is a ‘music in the garden’ event with local performers providing live music from 1pm through to sundown.

Red Kite Radio Sunday Brunch presenter John Reid-Hansen (pictured) will be one of the performers, with his wife Anne, performing at around 2.30pm for 20 minutes.

The event is being hosted by the band Hunter 101, and the drummer is former Red Kite Radio Drivetime presenter Mike Oxlade (pictured).

17/08/2024

LOCAL ARTISTS ON RED KITE RADIO
Published Saturday

We like to support our many talented local musicians here on Red Kite Radio. On Saturday Lunchbox today, from midday to 1pm, you can hear soprano Natasha Marsh (pictured) from Terrick, singing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.

Also on Saturday Lunchbox is a recipe in Kitchen Corner especially for the children on holiday from school – a tasty recipe they might like to help make for a simple lunch.

16/08/2024

PLANNED CLOSURE OF A418 BETWEEN STONE AND AYLESBURY FOR TWO WEEKS
Published Friday

From this evening HS2 are closing the A418 road between Stone and Aylesbury FOR TWO WEEKS to allow for further work to divert the road to cross the high speed rail line. The A418 will be closed between the Bugle Horn turn in Stone and the Coldharbour Way roundabout from 8.30 pm tonight {Friday 16th August).

It will not re-open until 5.30 am on MONDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER.

The 110 bus will divert via the A41 and Upper Winchendon, missing all stops between Aylesbury and Cuddington.

The Redline X20 will go via Princes Risborough and Aston Sandford, missing all stop s between Aylesbury and Woodways in Haddenham.

A temporary bus will operate hourly between the Bugle Horn and Thame High Street for the duration of the closure.

15/08/2024

Changes to the 110 and X20 buses for the duration of the A418 road closure

Buses Update: Due to HS2 roadworks, the X20 will have a temporary timetable from 17 August until 1 September. We have added the timetable to our website and the Thame Buses LinkTree https://linktr.ee/thamebuses

The X20 will divert via Princes Risborough and resume from Haddenham. (Woodways will not be served.) A shuttle bus will also operate between Stone, Haddenham & Thame so passengers can catch the X20 or any other route (timetable also on Council sites).

The 110 service will divert via Bicester Rd and Upper Winchenden and will run with delays to the service. All stops between Aylesbury and Cuddington will be missed.

15/08/2024

JOIN THE RED KITE RADIO FAMILY AND TUNE INTO 107.2fm
Published Thursday

If you want to know what’s going on in our area, join the Red Kite Radio family by tuning in to 107.2fm to find out what’s happening in Thame, Princes Risborough, Chinnor, Brill, Stoke Mandeville, Little Kimble, Terrick, Towersey, Chearsley, Haddenham and all the surrounding villages in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

As well as hourly local news and weather bulletins from our news team, you can hear about local events on all our shows because, in addition to playing great music from the Sixties right through every decade to today, the presenters give out plenty of information about things going on locally. And if you are not in the 107.2fm broadcast area there are other ways to listen to Red Kite Radio - via your Smart Speak or online at our website redkiteradio.com

On air right now is Howard Bond with the Mid Morning Show with two hours of classic hits and local event information; then the lovely soothing voice of Sally Poulson keeps us all company with The Weekday Lunchbox from 12 noon through to 1pm.

After one hour of classic hits from Gold Kite, Peter Dawes will be on air with The Afternoon Show from 2-4pm; followed by a fun filled Drivetime from 4-6pm with Paul Higgs (pictured), who will accompany you on your journey home from a busy day at work. An you won’t want to miss his fabulous Caraoke!

And if you’re a fan of the Sixties and particularly The Beatles you’re in for a great evening on Red Kite Radio – with Cherry Waller’s Sixties Rewind on from 7-9pm; followed by The Beatles Hour at 9-10pm with Paul Nicholas, and with such an immense back catalogue you can be sure the show will be filled with plenty of fabulous Fab Four hits.

Donald Mcfarlane will then end the night with The Weekday Wind Down with an hour of chilled music to end the day from 10-11pm.

Don’t miss all of these shows on your Red Kite Radio 107.2fm, online at redkiteradio.com and on your smart speaker.

14/08/2024

THIS EVENING ON YOUR LOCAL COMMUMITY RADIO STATION
Published Wednesday

On air right now on your Red Kite Radio is Howard Bond with the Eighties Rewind, reliving those glorious days of big hair, big shoulder pads, power suits, leg warmers, neon colours, puffball skirts and fabulous music. Stay with Howard through to 9pm.

Taking over for an hour from 9-10pm will be Tamsin Starling, who wasn’t even born in the 1980s! Tamsin presents Unironic Country in her own inimitable style.

Ending the day here on your local community station is Donald Mcfarlane with the Weekday Wind Down from 10pm through to 11pm.

Stay with us here on 107.2fm, the station for Thame, Haddenham and all the surrounding villages in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

13/08/2024

HOT SUMMER NIGHTS ON YOUR RED KITE RADIO
Published Tuesday

Sitting in for Daryl Ridgley on this evening’s Nineties Rewind from 7-9pm is Howard Bond with a theme of Nineties Summer Nights.

Howard will be celebrating the current spell of warm weather by playing some of the tracks we were moving and grooving to during those balmy August nights in every year of the 1990s.

Plus he'll be asking the question, which was the hottest summer of the 1990s? Two temperature records were broken on consecutive August days in the year in question. Do you know the year? Tune in to find out.

The heat will definitely be on tonight from 7 till 9pm!

13/08/2024

ADVERTISING ON RED KITE RADIO
Published Tuesday

If you’re a local business you’ve come to the right place. You can advertise on Red Kite Radio for as little as £65 a month.

We offer a variety of personalised advertising opportunities, including Gold, Silver and Bronze Campaigns with between three and seven plays of your commercial every day.

Alternatively, you could sponsor one of the shows in our weekly schedule, or a regular feature such as our hourly weather forecasts or one of the features in our shows. For example, on Saturday Lunchbox there is a Kitchen Corner feature all about food.

We have a unique coverage area and a proven track record of repeat clients happy to continue advertising with us. We can help with scripting your commercial and advise how to present your contact details to generate the best response.

Check out the details now. Go to redkiteradio.com/advertise-2 and scroll down the page to click on the button marked ‘Media Pack’

We reach the people of Thame, Haddenham, Princes Risborough, Chinnor, Cuddington, Ellesborough, Bishopstone, Tiddington, Postcombe, Loosley Row, Stoke Mandeville, Nether Winchendon, Ashendon, Brill, Upper Winchendon, Great Kimble, Terrick, Long Crendon, Sydenham, Monks Risborough, Little Kimble, Butlers Cross, Dinton, Ford, Chilton, Stone and Chearlsey.

12/08/2024

12/08/2024

THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ON RED KITE RADIO
Published Monday

Stay tuned to your local community radio for Sally Poulson on air now with the Weekday Lunchbox through to 1pm; and then we have an hour of back to back classic hits with The Gold Kite.

Peter Dawes (pictured) presents The Afternoon Show with fine music and chat from 2-4pm; then we move into Drivetime for a fun filled two hours with Paul Higgs, helping you to get safely home on the roads.

After another Gold Kite hour it’s time for The Seventies Rewind at 7-9pm with Simon Jobling, enabling us all to relive the wonderful musical memories of that decade.

Then at 9pm we have an hour of theatrical entertainment with The Musicals Hour, presented by Louise Goodridge (pictured); before Donald Mcfarlane takes us all off to bed with The Weekday Wind Down from 10pm through to 11pm.

11/08/2024

SPORTY MEMBERS OF RED KITE RADIO
Published Sunday

On the final day of the Paris Olympics we are publishing our final set of pictures of our incredibly sporty team here at Red Kite Radio.

Throughout the past two weeks of the Olympics, we have been posting pictures showing our members involved in past sporting achievements which have included scuba diving, jiu jitsu, marathons, fire walking, sailing, cycling, bungee jumping, barre stretching, running with weights, dance classes and hiking.

To celebrate the final day of the Olympics we are repeating some of the pictures here. The members shown are: Annette Luck (Motown Magic and Sunday Breakfast), Chris Long (Head of Output), former newsreader Kate Walker, Louise Goodridge (Musicals Hour), Paul Higgs (Drivetime), Alan Taberer (Breakfast Show), Catherine Jones (newsreader and Sunday Book review), John Reid-Hansen (Sunday Brunch), Heather Jan Brunt (Saturday Lunchbox) and Tamsin Starling (Unironic Country).

11/08/2024

SUNDAY ON RED KITE RADIO
Published Sunday

Tune into your local community radio station for a day filled with music, interviews, event information and entertainment.

On air from 7am is Annette Luck with Sunday Breakfast through to 10am. Annette (pictured) will return later in the morning as a guest on John Reid-Hansen’s Sunday Brunch.

John is on air with Sunday Brunch from 10am through to 1pm. His first guest today, just after 10am is Lorna Watson, talking about Haddenham Library.

At around 11.20am John will be talking to Belinda Lee, with an update from Thame Town Council.

And at 12.25, Annette returns to the studio to tell John about her recent visit to Princes Risborough Lighthouse, where she chatted to organisers, leaders, helpers and children.

The Sunday Afternoon Session with Paul Nichoas starts at 1pm and Paul’s featured artist this week is George Michael. Paul will be playing tracks from Wham!, George’s solo career and a couple of duets he performed with other artists.

Paul continues on air with The Acoustic Hour from 3-4pm.

Hannah Austin takes over from 4-7pm with the Noughties ‘Til Now Show; then it’s Sunday Rocks from 7-10pm; until the evening ends with The Breakaway Blues Show presented by Graham Andrews from 10-11pm.

Tune into Red Kite Radio on 107.2fm, online at redkiteradio.com or via your smart speaker. We are the local community station for Thame, Haddenham, Princes Risborough, Chinnor, Butlers Cross, Great Kimble, Stoke Mandeville, Brill, Towersey, Bishopstone and all the surrounding villages in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. And through the power of the internet we have listeners from all over the country and even the world! Welcome to all of you.

10/08/2024

On his Sunday Brunch show tomorrow (11th Aug) John Reid-Hansen doesn't have one guest, or two but THREE!

At 10.00 he'll be chatting to Lorna Watson, Trustee of Haddenham Community Library.

Then at 11.25, we'll be hearing from Belinda Lee with her update from Thame Town Council.

And at 12.25, Red Kite Radio's Motown Magic presenter, Annette Luck, will be telling us about her visit to Princes Risborough Lighthouse, when she chatted with organisers, leaders, helpers and children.

You can hear Red Kite Radio on smart speakers, online at redkiteradio.com and on 107.2FM in Thame, Haddenham, Chinnor, Princes Risborough and the Villages.

10/08/2024

SPORTY MEMBERS OF RED KITE RADIO
Published Saturday

During the Paris Olympics, we are celebrating the previous sporting achievements of our Red Kite Radio members here on our page.

Each day we are posting pictures showing the incredible things our members have got up to in the past – proving their entire life has not been spent behind a microphone!

Today we have another picture of Louise Goodridge, presenter of the Musicals Hour. On Friday 2nd August we had pictures of Louise taking part in two marathons, here we see her as an instructor for Boogie Bounce.

09/08/2024

New bus service from Thame to the Kassam.

The Oxford Bus Company are supporting the Yellows in partnership with the club to introduce a new football service for the 24/25 season. Their network of football services operate for all Oxford United home match days, and will take you directly to the Kassam stadium. The NEW OX8 connects fans fro...

09/08/2024

Did you know you must register up to 49 poultry or other kept birds by 1 October 2024? This includes any birds you keep as pets outdoors. You could be breaking the law if you do not register them. Find out more here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-as-a-keeper-of-less-than-50-poultry-or-other-captive-birds

09/08/2024

SPORTY MEMBERS OF RED KITE RADIO
Published Friday

Throughout this past fortnight, in recognition of the Paris Olympics, we have been posting sporty pictures of our members here on our Red Kite Radio page.

Each day we have posted pictures to prove their entire life is not spent behind a microphone!

Today we have more pictures of Saturday Lunchbox presenter Heather Jan Brunt. At the weekend we had pictures of her taking part in cycling challenges several years ago. Today, we have more recent pictures of her hiking on the Isle of Arran in Scotland in May this year.

08/08/2024

Our Business Plan Consultation closes TOMORROW⏳ Don’t miss this opportunity to shape the future of Princes Risborough!

Our latest consultation aims to gather valuable insights from residents, local organisations, and stakeholders to inform future objectives for the Town Council’s updated Business Plan.

To complete the Business Plan consultation online, please visit https://forms.gle/fVcWJKtcDncv6A3e7

Return completed forms to the Town Council Offices at the Wades Centre, Stratton Road, HP27 9AX. Our reception window will be open between 09:30 AM and 3:30 PM. If you would like to drop off outside of these hours, there is a black wall-mounted post box to the right of the Wades Centre main entrance.