Airs Fridays at 10pm week 4 of the month.
Andrew Forster and Phil Driscoll visit brass bands to hear them play and to find out what makes them keep the tradition of British brass banding alive.
Our radio schedule works on a week 2 & week 4 basis. Week two begins on the second Tuesday of each month.
Fri 29th Mar '24, 10:00pm
This month we head to Malton to meet two bands from the Swinton And District Excelsior band organisation. Their senior band and training band, with some band playing thrown in.
Fri 1st Mar '24, 10:00pm
We visit Markham Main Colliery Band near Doncaster to help them to celebrate their centenary year.
Tue 23rd Jan '24, 10:00pm
For our first programme of 2024, we visit the Wetherby Silver Band.
Mon 25th Dec '23, 10:00am
A Christmas day concert with the Kippax Brass Band, recorded at their band club.
Tue 28th Nov '23, 10:00pm
A former cow shed between Macclesfield and Congleton is the bandroom of Silk Brass, our band for this month.
Tue 24th Oct '23, 10:00pm
St John The Baptist church in Normanton provides the venue for this edition, where we meet the West Yorkshire Police Band.
We'd like to thank Natalie Jane Bamforth for the pictures from the test piece run-out with the Knottingley, Kippax, Wetherby and Tingley bands
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