Radio Camelot, the station that has broadcasted to the patients of Yeovil District Hospital since 1973, is about to embark on the most ambitious ‘marathon weekend’ in it’s 38 year history and they do so with a former colleague very much in their thoughts.
‘Marge Ellingham was in many ways the heart and soul of Radio Camelot’, says Public Relations Officer David Lovell, ‘She was the kind of volunteer who got things happening and she left an irreplaceable void’. ‘She was sadly too ill to take part in our last marathon, playing the 500 greatest songs according to Rolling Stone Magazine, and we lost her in April of last year. I wish she was here to see this, and the progress the station has made’.
From 12pm on Saturday afternoon till 10pm on Monday night during the May Day weekend, Radio Camelot will be playing the top ten hits from every year, since the singles charts was first started in 1952 through to last year. ‘It was November 1952 that the first singles chart was compiled, as prior to that the charts were based on sheet music, and I think there will certainly be a few surprises along the way during our 58 hours on air!’, Lovell says.
‘There’s certainly a lot of Cliff, and every time we play him we will know that Marge is smiling down, as she was a big fan’.
