‘Ralph’s Finest Hour’ today features Ralph talking about his speech at the National Autistic Society event in Bristol on January 12th which was the launch of the ‘You need to know’ campaign.

Listen today Friday 28th January at midday on http://www.fromefm.co.uk/ or listen to the repeat on Sunday 30th January at 12:30pm

In 2010 Jules Pretty and Jo Barton of the University of Essex published results in the journal “Environmental Science and Technology” showing that mood and self-esteem improved after as little as a five-minute dose of open air exercise. The study found that a walk in a natural area adjacent to water offered people the most improvement.

So get out and River Meander with or without your MP3 copy of the programme.

River Meandering is next broadcast on Sunday 30th January at 10:30am or available to ‘listen again’ on http://www.fromefm.co.uk/ Programmes > Talk > River Meandering

Mark Besley and new co-presenter Rob Way in the studio during Saturday night’s show ‘Come on Let’s ROCK’, 90 minutes of the best Rock music around.

January brings a host of new shows on local community radio FromeFM.

On Friday January 28th at 12:00 Farleigh college student Ralph presents a LIVE show “Ralph’s finest hour”. On his first show Ralph talked about his experiences speaking at the House of Commons and at the Conservative Party Conference about Aspergers.  Music included Cheryl Cole and West Life.  In his new show Ralph will play music and talk about his speech at the National Autistic Society event in Bristol. 

On Saturday 29^th January at 7pm ‘Boo! Teak’ hosted by Andy Morten promises lost sounds from pop’s golden era, a new and bespoke mix of far-out 60s & 70s sounds and at 8pm ‘Blues Train’ with Dave Watkins is a new monthly round up of the best blues music we can find! 

On Sunday 30^th Jan at 12:00, ‘Seeing Things’ is a new series about the visual arts in Frome, presented by David Chandler one of Frome’s most well known and established artists.  So far David has met up with the Frome Arts Society, visited the ‘Image Wall’ exhibition at the Black Swan and interviewed local artists Tristan Stevens, Ellen Tovey and Kitty Hillier.

Also on Sunday 30^th Jan at 4pm playing post-rock, lo-fi, acoustics and electronica, Jon Gordon’s new show provides a showcase for bands whose music may not have been heard either nationally or indeed actually in the UK, so prepare for an entirely new listening experience.

Other new shows to listen out for are ‘Domenic’, ‘Osmosis’, and ‘A perfect world’ as well as lots of your old favourites.

To find out more and to listen to the shows visit FromeFM on http://www.fromefm.co.uk/

Listen in amazement as the addled brains of Frome’s biggest hitmakers try to make sense of their record collections! Thrill as they search for something vaguely contemporary! Gasp as another obscure slice of rock n roll, pop, soul, punk, surf or country assails your senses!

Then go to bed – you’re up far too late!

Visit http://www.baddetectives.co.uk/ for playlists and loads more stuff about the band.

FromeFM presenter and local composer Helen Ottaway is featured in the December issue of Frome Life magazine.

Helen presents the show ‘Take me to the River’ which features music from all styles and periods, linked by the theme of the river and its water, flowing from source to sea.
As a composer, Helen has worked with John Cage and appeared in Peter Greenaway’s film about him for Channel 4. As pianist and keyboard player she was a founder member of the new music group Regular Music with whom she has toured and recorded extensively in the UK and abroad.

Helen’s many commissions include BBC2 (title and incidental music for the documentary ‘The River’, 1999); Bath Film Festival (Rain / String Quartet No. 2 to accompany the silent film ‘Regen’, 2003) and Frome Festival (harpsichord works for 2005 and 2006). In March 2007 she led a major educational project in Frome (It’s a String Thing!) working with 150 local young string players.  Helen was also commissioned to write a piece for ‘Home in Frome’ at the 2010 Frome festival.

After a sabbatical, Helen is now back on FromeFM with more watery music. Listen to Take me to the River on Sunday 6th February at 4:30pm or go the http://www.fromefm.co.uk/ programmes > music > Take me to the River to listen again or subscribe to the podcast

…with a look back at some of the best bits from 2010.  Saturday 15th January 2011 kicking off at 7pm.

Sport Pie is usually a monthly round up of what’s happening on the local sports front – news, reports, scores, stories …but this months special replays previous interviews with local sports personalities.

From February 2011, we will have a monthly slot where we invite a couple of people to sit in and give their verdicts on the latest sporting talking points in our SPORTS COURT – so if anyone would like to be part of this, please get in touch. You just need to be able to sit there and give your opinions about issues both local and worldwide!

Join the Facebook group to keep up with the latest news from the show or visit the Sport Pie blogsite at http://sportpie.wordpress.com/
All sports and clubs are welcome to get in touch and we will be happy to let Frome know all about you!