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We are based in the heart of Southampton, the station was launched in 2011 to provide a service to the local community, both as a hit music station & a training service. Voice Breakfast wakes you up from 7am, and Voice Drive gets you home 4pm. We play a mix of genres including: dance, rock, indie & alternative, with our specialist programming from 6pm onwards during the week. Contacts:

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Office (Tel): 023 8063 4663

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Review: Peter James Picture You Dead - Mayflower Theatre https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/reviews/post/rev...
28/02/2025

Review: Peter James Picture You Dead - Mayflower Theatre https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/reviews/post/review-peter-james-picture-you-dead-mayflower-theatre/

Never has “fake it until you make it” been such a deadly phrase and in “Picture You Dead” the art of crime writing is a masterpiece.

Touted as the most successful modern-day crime stage franchise since Agatha Christie, Peter James has sold millions for books worldwide with Superintendent Roy Grace as his perennial detective hero.

And you can tell James is a compelling writer, even his programme notes are a cracking read!

Adapted for stage from the bestselling Picture You Dead this is whodunnit, that turns into howtheydunnit and ends… well, that would spoil it for you…

However, what you can expect is some great acting, fast paced scene changes and a complex world of art and forgery explained through fine strokes on a great canvas.

The stage is cleverly split between three main settings, a suburban front room, a stately home study and an artist’s studio.

And with slick production, we shift scenes as quickly as cuts on a TV screen, with the actors holding your attention throughout, and the sound design adding a very subtle yet persuasive underscore.

If you are an avid soap fan there are plenty of well known names on stage, Fiona Wade, recognised for her role as Priya Sharma in ITV’s Emmerdale, is Freya Kipling the wife of Harry - played by Ben Cutler (Warren in Eastenders).

Freya Kipling & Ben Cutler

Very convincing as a couple, they kiss as brilliantly as a loving couple would, and by the interval you’re really hoping that nothing sinister could befall them. Even so, they are the ones who’ve purchased a very rare painting at a car boot sale, they are now the centre of attention

Of course the villains of the piece seem capable of anything and Jodie Steele, playing Roberta Kilmore certainly finds her inner demon, and for me it is a sign of great acting when you really don’t like the character portrayed on stage.

The same can be said for her employer, the odious Stuart Piper, played by Nicholas Maude. As the story develops the darker he becomes, and his obsession for possessing art outweighs his sense of reason.

Nicholas Maude and Jodie Steele

And central to the story is forger turned copyist Dave Hegarty, played by Peter Ash (Coronation Street) and based on real life forger turned copyist David Henty.

Ash gives the character a lovely endearing quality that is tested to the limit as the story unfurls, you definitely hope he ends up on the right side, but you just never can tell.

And linking this all together is George Rainsford as DSI Roy Grace, and you may well know him as Ethan Hardy in Casualty.

Cool, calm and collected, maybe too collected for a man who has uncovered many crimes and potentially one wrecked marriage, Rainsford assembles the palette of clues while guiding us through the sordid world of fine art and sharp dealings.

George Rainsford & Gemma Stroyan

Ably assistant by DS Bella Moy, played by Gemma Stroyan who returns to the character she originated on stage.

If you love a good whodunnit you won’t be disappointed. If you haven’t had a thought about fine art you’ll think again, it is a murky world at best, where ownership of amazing works becomes an obsession that deprives the public of art for the sake of greed.

And then there are the copyists such as our forger. As skilled as a Master, yet bereft of the ability to create something original.

Unlike Peter James who has taken a glimmer of an idea and turned it into a very entertaining play that will hang above the mantlepiece of your mind for some time to come.

Book your seats here - mayflower.org.uk

You can hear an interview with Jodie Steel here

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Ex-Voice FM Presenter Organises Plaque For Former Saint https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/news/post/ex-voic...
27/02/2025

Ex-Voice FM Presenter Organises Plaque For Former Saint https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/news/post/ex-voice-fm-presenter-organises-plaque-for-former-saint/ Saints Ted Drake once “The World’s greatest centre forward” plaque unveiled at Arsenals old ground earlier this week.

The memorial was erected out of respect at Highbury for Arsenal's fifth all-time top goalscorer Ted Drake, whose ashes are buried at the ground.

The monument sits across the front of the old Clock End, in tribute to the later 1930s Gunner who was the North Londoner’s top talisman in every season he played for them, following a transfer from Second Division side Southampton in 1934.

At the Dell the once Southampton born and bred gas inspector bagged 50 goals from 1931-1934 in just over 70 appearances before being signed by The North Londner’s in their “Golden Age” at the time.

The honour was arranged by Ted Drakes Great Grandson and forever passionate Arsenal/Saints fan Liam Harding.

Drake currently holds the feat for the highest number of goals (7) netted in an English top-flight game of football, still standing nearly 90 years later, which he set on 14th December 1935 at Villa Park with a rightful eighth turned down for greed in the dying moments.

The England International who snatched six goals in five run outs, remembrance plaque reads “In loving memory of TED DRAKE whose ashes are buried at this stadium. The scorer of 139 goals in 184 games between 1934 and 1939, he was one of Arsenals greatest ever strikers.” With the Arsenal badge printed below.

The former Wi******er City player lifted two Division One titles at the North Londoner’s as well as one FA Cup which he scored the only goal of in 1936 when injured late on versus Sheffield United in a 1-0 triumph for Arsenal at Wembley.

The man born down Holyrood is the quickest Arsenal player in history to bag 100 goals in 108 appearances.

Ted also set the current goalscoring record at The Gunners for the most strikes (44) achieved in a season at Arsenal during the 1934/35 campaign.

Liam Harding who couldn’t have been any prouder to have sorted out the plaque for his Great Grandad, empathically said: ”It’s a great honour to have the plaque sorted out for not only my Great Grandad and family but for the Arsenal community and future generations of supporters, who have the opportunity and privilege to walk through Highbury Square to pay respect to as stated ‘one of Arsenals greatest ever strikers’.

He’s forever immortalised at the once ‘home of football’ and one of the greatest designed stadiums in English football history!”

After his playing career came to an end due to a back injury picked up as a PT in the RAF during the Second World War, Drake went into management.

In 1955 at Chelsea he heralded the League Championship, becoming the first player then manager to clinch the top flight of English football, sealing The Blues their first ever major honour.

However at heart Drake was at one with Southampton, not long before his death in 1995 whilst sat from Saints old home the Dell, he stated “there was always a saying since I was a little boy, once a saint always a saint, and I shall remain one for the rest of my days.”

Liam was a presenter with Voice during the 23/24 season, presenting News at Drive and Surround Sport while he was studying at Solent University.

Liam Harding's great grandfather was Ted Drake

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Rotary Rocks Music Concert https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/news/post/rotary-rocks-music-concert/ Bigger a...
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Rotary Rocks Music Concert https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/news/post/rotary-rocks-music-concert/ Bigger and better than ever, The Rotary rocks music festival is back taking Southampton by storm on the 14th of March.

This highly anticipated community event will showcase a musical extravaganza of local talent in support of local charity's.

Starting with dazzling performances from the dancers at the award winning Starcast Performing Arts School.

Then swept away with Music from the amazing panatical steel band, pop hits from the rock choir and Southampton ukulele jam giving us everything from Motown hits to current chart-toppers.

This is going to be an event to remember.

Organised by the rotary Club of Eastleigh, this concert supports incredible local causes like Eastleigh Basics Bank and more.

Hosted by Voice FMs very own presenter Matt Trevis this will be an unforgettable night.

Starting at 7:30 this event will take place in Thornden Hall in Chandlers Ford.

Tickets start at -

£12 per adult

£10 commissions

£1 per child under 12

Buy your tickets here!

Fun for the whole family, we hope to see you there!







Rotary Rocks - https://thorndenhall.co.uk/whats-on/rotary-rocks

Roatary Club of Eastleigh - https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=651

Voice FM Presenter Matt Trevis -https://www.instagram.com/justaddtreviss/?hl=en

Thornden Hall - https://www.thorndenhall.co.uk/

Starcast performing Arts - https://www.starcastperformingarts.co.uk/

Rock Choir - https://rockchoir.com/links/

Pantical steel band - https://www.instagram.com/panaticalsteelband/?hl=en

Southampton Ukulele Jam - https://southamptonukulelejam.co.uk/

The Electrifying Music Event Is Coming To Chandlers Ford On The 14th of March!

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Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company Dragons - Mayflower Theatre https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/reviews/post/eun-me-...
24/02/2025

Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company Dragons - Mayflower Theatre https://www.voicefmradio.co.uk/community/blogs/reviews/post/eun-me-ahn-dance-company-dragons-mayflower-theatre/ How do you look at dragons?

To a western eye that are dangerous and powerful, in Asia they represent lightness, joy and optimism.

And in the hands of the word renowned South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Ahn’s the dragons on stage at Mayflower Theatre were tubes, metal tubes, something she explained to us at the Q&A after show.

Although it didn’t twig with this reviewer during the show, it made perfect sense afterwards.

Eun-Me also said the tubes represented the “calls” we make via the Internet, the way we connect with each other.

I thought they were fantastic props, various sizes, used as a backdrop curtain, surrounding three sides of the stage, or as a sock puppet in the opening piece.

In fact the opening of the show was one of the most endearing parts, the lone woman, doing “her thing” on the stage, communication through sounds and motion, a summary of Eun-Me Ahn’s career.

Eun-Me Ahn is described as a pioneering choreographer who embraces modern techniques to captivate her audiences.

That is the truth. I haven’t seen a show staged like this before.

Images, dancers, scenes and video is projected onto a mesh in front of the performers and on some occasions you are taken to another world, in others the dances are joined by a digital troop, or, in another poignant scene, the dancers perform inside a giant bubble that they push to one side.

It is Taeseok Lee’s vivid and colourful projections, which bring forests and clouded skies to life, and surrounding your senses with an evocative soundtrack from Jang Young-Gyu , who blends contemporary pop and electronic with a traditional score.

There is so much too love within this show, however you do have to bring an artistic head to the Mayflower Theatre.

Even though your senses will be delighted, the part of you that needs a narrative to explain it all will be wanting. So just sit back and let it all take you in.

The tour is brought to the UK by Dance Consortium and speaking to Voice FM, Joe Bates, who is chief executive, explained why they are involved.

“Dance Consortium is a group of 22 large scale venues all over the UK and Ireland. And I work with the directors and programmers of those theatres to bring in large scale international dance companies. And we tour them round to those different venues. So not every venue is on every tour.

But we have opened this one with the Mayflower in Southampton, who have been a long standing member of Dance Consortium, probably for nearly 20 years, and they're always incredibly supportive of bringing in international dance, to put something a bit different in their program for people to see and locally.”

Eun-Me Ahn is one of the most important artists in South Korea - and in Dragons your senses will find their wings.

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