News

Flu Virus Hits Program Production At Big Ear Radio
The last 10 days has witnessed a "first" at Big Ear Radio's production facility. Flu and an unspecified and entirely unexpected virus made it impossible to record several of the popular features on our weekly loop. The Trevor Krueger Folk Show, New Moon Rising and... read more »

Our weekly loop upload moves to Sunday evenings
To help us cope with work levels and time restraints, we will be changing our weekly loop upload day to Sundays at 7pm. Everything else stays the same, so keep joining us and sharing the love from us here at Big Ear Radio.read more »

Diversity & Inclusion Statement
At Big Ear Radio we are building a community of program makers and listeners who share our belief in an inclusive culture that encourages, shares and celebrates the diversity of humanity, in all its many different, splendid forms. Bringing together so many different perspectives... read more »

An Appeal to Fund Sewing Machines for Kenya
Equal Ability Radio has been approached by George Osoyu in Kenya to see if we can help supply treadle or electric sewing machines. They need to buy six, costing about £150. read more »

Can you help Annette Caster with her News Reports?
Our virtual News Reader, Annette Caster, is looking for help with sourcing news items relating to disability and disadvantage - from personal experiences in your part of the World. Help us tell the World what's going on Very often the news we receive through our TV... read more »

Volunteer presenters wanted for scheduled and occasional shows
As we begin to plan our regular live broadcast schedule we will be requiring more Presenters. Big Ear Radio offers a genuine opportunity for new talent to apply to present shows with us either as a scheduled presenter or as an occasional program maker. "Live"... read more »

Nigel Waymark taking a break from The Network Soul Chart
We're very sad to announce that Nigel Waymark is taking an unspecified break from his extremely popular weekly Network Soul Chart, to take a much earned rest. Nigel has been loyal to Equal Ability Radio since we started building our team, he and Big Ear... read more »

The essential role of Equal Ability Radio
We are often asked to sum up what Equal Ability Radio / Big Ear is all about? Well in simple terms we are about providing great entertainment as a commercial radio station and then, giving away all our profits to support good causes related... read more »

Former Presenter Sarah Banham releases new novel
When we first launched Big Ear Radio we were very lucky to have Author and writing consultant Sarah Banham as part of our team, presenting a weekly writing show called "Writers Block". Sarah eventually took a step back from broadcasting to re-devote time to her... read more »

Progress is always about Swings and Roundabouts!
This week has been one of mainly good news, lots of positive things happening on the future funding front and some excellent progress with our team building. We have quality people joining us all the time and we are going to need them too,... read more »