References To Hospital Radio in Popular Culture
- Takin' Over the Asylum - a six part television drama about the development of a radio station in a psychiatric hospital.
- The BBC radio comedy Radio Active featured Michael Fenton Stevens playing an incompetent hospital radio-trained presenter. He was carried over to the TV spin-off KYTV.
- Fictional character Alan Partridge is said to have began his radio career at a hospital station.
- The League of Gentlemen character Mike King is a DJ at the local hospital.
- Top Gear made a reference to hospital radio, notably "Songs You Can't Play on Hospital Radio". The two songs mentioned were The Verve's The Drugs Don't Work and Cutting Crew's (I Just) Died In Your Arms.
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