What Now?

The Story of 209radio Pt 4

Karl Hartland — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:38:24 +0000

So here we were, with a’ radio station’ in our house. The early days consisted of weekly shows, called The Irreducible Representation, which consisted of me playing electronica, electro and progressive drum and bass for 2 hours. They also involved the entire front room being rearranged (until semi-permanent shelving could be put on the walls) [...]

Making Mental Notes

Karl Hartland — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:11:05 +0000

One of my freelance projects is as trainer, producer and geek for Making Mental Notes, a user-led website that hosts a blog, comments, opinion and podcasts for content concerned with Mental & Emotional health. It’s currently funded by Lifecraft, Arts & Minds and our own advertising and fundraising efforts. The project started as a monthly [...]

Cambridge 105 web page

Karl Hartland — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:26:22 +0000

One of my projects, my main one, is a current application to transfer the Cambridge Community Radio licence to a new organisation- Cambridge 105. We been tweaking the page a bit, check it out here and sign up for the mailing list; we’re sending out more information soon! Other places for info and getting involved: [...]

The Story of 209radio Pt 3

Karl Hartland — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:37:25 +0000

My interest in radio goes back a long way, but it has to be said as a punter only. I spent my first 5 years with my parents on Merchant Navy ships in the late 70s and so radio, both for communications and entertainment, was an important part of our lives. Although too young to [...]

The story of 209radio Pt 2

Karl Hartland — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:02:08 +0000

So, we moved to Royston for my work but for Lucy’s also as it was undeniably quicker to get to Cambridge from there by train (where she was working at Addenbrooke’s Hospital) than from Haverhill by bus. What can I say about Royston? It is not a bad place and in the past there’s no [...]

The story of 209radio Pt 1

Karl Hartland — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:33:38 +0000

Once upon a time, a young gentleman & a young lady arrived in East Anglia with little more to their names than Welsh university educations and a Mk 5 sky blue Ford Cortina 1.6 L… It was the summer of 1998 when I & my girlfriend of 2 years, Lucy Clifton, arrived for summer work [...]

First one…

Karl Hartland — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:30:33 +0000

I’m developing this…will take me a while…for now, I used to work at this community radio station in Cambridge.. http://209radio.co.uk