Radio Gwendolen has broadcast from its present home in the old endoscopy unit at the Leicester General Hospital since Christmas 1990. Prior to this, the station was housed in a couple of rooms attched to the side of the old Ward 14 (now EMU) and its original home really was in a room no bigger than a broom cupboard in the old admin block.

The first thing you will see when you enter our reception area is the notice boards that tell members about the latest goings on in the station. There are also our many awards for broadcasting that have been presented to the station by the Hospital Broadcasting Association. Our reception is a small area that serves as an access point to the studios and also houses the presenters pidgeon holes (mail boxes).

This is studio 1 where the majority of Radio Gwendolens programmes originate. The central mixing desk allows the presenter to control a variety of digital sound equipment such as CD players, mini discs, the computer based playout system and of course not forgetting our trusty old turntables which still get plenty of use, especially in our nighly request shows.

Some of our live programmes and most of our pre-recorded shows originate from studio 2. This studio is physically smaller than our main studio but houses roughly the same equipment. Studio 2 is usually busy with presenters preparing audio features for their programmes. We hope to soon re-furbish this studios furniture such that it more mirrors the main studio.

One of the most important rooms in the radio station is the gramophone library. Here you will find thousands of LP's, singles and CD's spanning all genres and tastes. Our librarian Greta is our longest serving member and has been cataloging our library since the early 80's. At some point we will move from the existing card based index system to a computer based library to aid in finding your requests.

In the small cupboard off reception you will find our engineers workshop. Not the most tidy area of the station at the best of times. Here our station engineer Julian keeps all the equipment needed to keep radio gwendolen on air 24/7. Radio Gwendolen's medium wave transmitter is situated away from the main hospital to avoid any possibility of interference with vital medical electronics.

We also have a station office, an area for all the non-broadcasting activites of the station like meetings and programme prepartion. The office has full internet access and a fax machine to aid presenters with preparing their programmes.