Facts & Info

Enjoy the Football Season....!

At the moment we have free car-stickers, for all three of our local sides - Stoke, Vale and Crewe, all similar to the one we feature here.
Just call in and pick up one during opening hours; or just send a stamped addressed envelope to Hilda, BBC Radio Stoke, Cheapside, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, ST1 1JJ - and we'll send it back to you.

Reception is open between 9am and 5pm each weekday.
Phone: 01782 208080 (plus out of hours answerphone)

Radio Stoke Frequencies are:  94.6FM (104.1 FM in Stafford), and 1503 kHz MW

Our friendly and professional reception team headed by Hilda Austin will almost certainly be the first people you speak to when you telephone or visit BBC Radio Stoke. They'll do their best to ensure your contact with the station is pleasurable and handled effectively.

Perhaps you have a story or issue you'd like to talk over with one of our reporters or managers, or maybe you're hoping to find out a detail about a programme, or member of staff, or you want to bu an Owd Grandad Piggott CD, or have a query we can help you with...
If you can't see on this page how to do any of those things, just phone, and Hilda will help you properly.

Info - for mail or visitors

Write to (or visit) BBC Radio Stoke, Cheapside, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, ST1 1JJ
Not only is the radio station based here, but also local BBC TV and the BBC Staffordshire website. 

You'll find the Radio Stoke building on the corner of Cheapside, looking out onto Albion Square. We're very close to Hanley Bus Station and the Victoria Hall (where there is loads of pay-parking), all within a couple of minutes walk.

Prefer the 'phone?

Reception is the first port of call for any query, and may even be able to answer you immediately. Just dial 01782 208080.
To email, click on the link below.

If you have a hearing impairment, you can use our textphone on 01782 284619.
Hearing-impaired visitors may be pleased to know that we have an induction loop fitted in the building; use the T switch on your hearing aid.

Keepsakes of your favourite local radio station

We always have a small range of BBC Radio Stoke branded items. Many, like car window stickers and presenter pictures, are free. But if you'd like your own branded mug - made here in the Potteries of course - we ask the princely sum of £2.50!

Throughout the year, we also feature special items.

You can support the BBC Children In Need appeal by purchasing Pudsey goodies. Tickets are available for our hugely popular annual Carol Concert from mid-November every year.

Owd Grandad; and Arthur Berry

Finally, we have recordings on CD and cassette of certain Radio Stoke recordings.

Alan Povey's 'Owd Grandad Piggott' tapes and CD cost around £5. Each CD or tape contains 12 short stories narrated in Potteries dialect by Alan, the creator and voice of 'Owd Grandad.
(To read our profile of the old rogue, just copy the phrase  Owd Grandad Piggott, and place it in the search box at the top of this page).

The latest OWD Grandad CD  is called' Fower Ton of Scrap' at £7.75.
Other CDs available are: OGP and the Spondon Falcons, £7.50; No Ale at the Inn, £7.75; Vintage Gold 2005, £7.75
On cassette, OGP is on: Darby n Joan,  £5; Cheadle Cowboys  £5; The Human Cannonball,  £6; Ram Raider,  £6; Piggin Disaster,  £6; OGP and the Spondon Falcons, £6; No Ale at the Inn,  £6.25; Vintage Gold 2005,  £6.25.

We also have an Arthur Berry CD, 'Lullaby of Queen Street'  at £6.50, in which the late Burslem-born poet and writer reads from his own tales and observations of life in North Staffordshire.

We will be happy to mail most of these items to you. Please call Reception for postage costs.