Saturday Drop In

Back in the studio and suitably dried off after our journey out to Woodzstock Shannon and Tom have another Saturday Drop In for you to enjoy.

We catch up with local musician Kenna Ross about a fundraising concert for CHAS.

With the Guiness World Record Book having a new entry for world's oldest Lemur, Tom challenges Shannon to play 'Lemur or Le-less' as this week's This or That.

How do you say goodbye on the phone? And who is even making phone calls these days?

Usual games of Guess the Year and Beat Detective.

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The Saturday Drop In, drops out!

We've packed up the studio and headed off to Woodzstock 2025 to soak up one of the best little festivals in the country. Us and our equipment also soaked up quite a bit of rain water! But, that didn't stop us!

We met up with Steven Barclay from The Chosen Lonely about opening up the festival and how you can help him do the same at Belladrum 2025.

Local musicians, and all round good characters Bev, Loretta and Liza chatted to us about what they had planned at Woodzstock and tried to list every other musical act they are a part of.

We chatted to Mikeysline who were another charity partner on the day about their services and celebrations planned for the 10th anniversary of Mikeysline.

We even managed a quick work with Rosco Smith the organiser of the event.

Plus, as if that wasn't enough, your usual Saturday Drop In features and quizzes.

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Shannon and Tom are back with all the fun of your Saturday Drop In.

Shannon caught up with Roz White who is the secretary of Highland Pride. They spoke about the Highland Pride event held on 7th June in Inverness and discussed LGBTQ+ matters.

With the day being National Butterfly Day, we played a game of Butterfly or Flutter By for This or That. Can you tell what's a butterfly from a carpet shark?

With Beat Detective and Guess the Year, you can test your grey cells as well!

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Shannon and Tom are back for another Saturday Drop In, with special guest Karen dropping in.

We give a Saturday Drop In take on Celiac Awareness Months with a special edition of This or That titled 'Donought or Do-not'. Find out how much (or little) Tom knows about what foods are ok for people living with Celiac Disease. Shannon also has some details, stats and where to find out more and get support.

Guess the Year sees Tom and Karen pitted against each other with a naughties year to be found. Beat Detective is so good we had to make the answer a podcast extra!

Also find out how bad a car passenger Shannon is, and an award of a grant for Highland Hospital Radio from the students at Nairn Academy.

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Shannon and Tom are joined in the studio by Kirsty Adam from Red Chair Highland to discuss Digital Inclusion. Kirsty explained how the organisation looks to bridge the gap where people can find themselves isolated when accessing essential services needs a digital presence in today's world.

With Eurovision coming up, we played a game of 'Euro Pop' or 'Euro Flop' for this weeks this or that. This a must for any Eurovision Song Contest fan.

We also had our usual game of Guess the Year and Beat Detective.

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Shannon drives the desk and Tom is the passenger along for the ride on another Saturday Drop In.

We speak to RNLI's Kessock Lifeboat team about the station, it's lifesaving mission, fundraising and volunteering opportunities.

Guess the Year is even trickier this year with an unfortunately misplaced 'final' that became became a 'first' throws Tom and guest presenter popper inner Karen. But, Beat Detective is as true a true thing, with a Train themed edition of this or that in 'Train or Trauma'. Expect many complaints from Tom.

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#hospitalradio #nhshighland #guesstheyear #beatdetective #thisorthat

Reunited after Tom's partying last week, Shannon and Tom are back for another Saturday Drop In.

It wasn't all fun and games for Tom as he limped into the studio following a swimming pool fall. Did he fall, or did he have a fall? We discuss, while Shannon looks for a wheelchair from the hospital lobby.

The Ice Bucket Challenge seems to be making a come back. We had a think about challenges we wouldn't mind seeing come back to try in the studio, and many we'd rather didn't.

It's national gardening week, Shannon has hit the jackpot with her sunflower haul, with her quest to be known as Dingwall's 'Sunflower Woman' well under way!

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#hospitalradio #nhshighland #guesstheyear #beatdetective #thisorthat #sunflowers #icebucketchallenge #asmr

Whilst Tom is galavanting in the south this weekend, we've awakened our Outside Broadcast Technician from his winter slumber and got him on instead. If your a seasoned listener, you may know him as Ben.

This week, we chat about Bryan Adams, Etape Loch Ness and Ben's complaint for the latest shrink-gage... the easter egg. Shannon challenges Ben's Pitbull knowledge with a game of Pitbull or Ball, can you guess the real Pitbull lyrics from the made up ones?

We play Guess the Year and Beat Detective and talk extra - podcast exclusive - chat on how we're actually meant to eat a chocolate digestive, according to the cookie connoisseur.

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So what is the Saturday in mid-Easter called? Shannon and Tom aren't sure, but they are here anyway for another Saturday Drop In.

They were joined in the studio by the wonderful Ramsay McGhee from Seagull Trust Cruises. Ramsay is part of the Highland branch of Seagull Trust who take people with additional needs and the elderly on cruises along the Caledonian Canal in their adapted barge Highland Cross Seagull. https://seagulltrust.org.uk/highland-branch/

With billionaires in space we think up a good team from Highland Hospital Radio who could take hospital radio broadcasting to space. Tom seems determined to ask Shannon about Yorkshire Puddings. Shannon lets Tom know that the Saturday Drop In is her second show!

We play Guess the Year and Beat Detective with a canal theme crammed in. With national feet week this week promoting good foot health (and we are supposed to be about health and well being) we play a game of 'Foot or Boot' as our This or That quiz. Shannon did well not to run out the studio!

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Shannon and Tom are back for another Saturday Drop In. Shannon is bringing something new and shiny to the show in the never ending quest for content!

We're joined by Morag and Fiona from The Florian's Theatre to talk about their forthcoming production of 'Get Up and Tie Your Fingers'. The play about the 'Herring Lassies', the term for the woman who would work to process the herring catches in coastal towns around Scotland. The play, set in Eyemouth, focusses on the events of 'Black Friday' October 1881 when a storm lead to the loss of 189 men. Morag and Fiona also told us about The Florian's history and the theatre. You can find out more, and buy tickets by visiting florians.org.uk.

We have our usual Guess the Year and Beat Detective. This weeks This or That sees Shannon challenge Tom to guess between Pharmaceutical terms and Dictionary words. Also titled as Doctors term or Dictionary term. The further abbreviation of Doc or Dic will definitely not lead to disaster!

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