Make your own one hour music show!

We're offering budding DJ's and music enthusiasts the chance of putting together their own one hour show together. Each show will go out out on our 0900-1000 slot every weekday morning in December - maybe before!

Email us your top 20 tracks of all time and we'll pull them out of the library, package them up as a one hour show, give you a name check and any dedications you might have.

If you want to do your own presenting or even select your own tracks and put the show together yourself - just say so in your email and we'll get you in for a bit of training - it's really quite easy and won't take long. Time is short, so get your playlists in soon!

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Database Updates

We need a small army of helpers to update the songs and other recordings in our station database. We're about to install a new play-out system and all our song details have to be updated for this to work properly. We're talking 20,000 songs, so WE NEED HELP!

Call Maxine at the station if you'd like to help.

New Station Documentary

Film about Somer Valley FM

To watch the following documentary, click on the thumbnail image...

5/9/2011: Somer Valley FM provides opportunities for all young people whether located locally, regionally or overseas. Ben Tomasino is a 17 year old High School student from Turin, Italy, who spent 2 weeks with the station this Summer.

He says, "I wanted to come for a radio working experience in England. This is a complete new experience for me because I have always studied how to make films and now I can learn about how audio works without visual. Radio is a very exciting medium."

The Somer Valley FM Morning Show

Somer Valley FM is now a few weeks down the line with a new show for families at home in the mornings called The Morning Show.

The target audience is mums and dads, grandparents and childminding professionals who are ‘at home’ in the mornings, between 10 and 12 am. Produced and presented by 4 local volunteers and featuring interviews and guest appearances by local people, the programme looks at a whole range of topics from family care, food and health issues to stories for the toddlers, competitions and quizzes.

Topics so far included are: Education and family issues – news from and about local schools, opportunities for adult education in the area and advice on bringing up the kids, from toddlers to teens, local childcare facilities, advice on caring for older family members. Home and Garden – looking after your gardens and houseplants, how to get the most out of your computer. Health & Beauty – Healthy eating and nutrition, beauty tips – expert advice, alternative therapies, exercise regimes.

"We also plan to include local shopping bargains, stories for the younger children and loads of competitions and quizzes, to get people involved with the show." says station production manager Rupert Kirkham, "All these things need researching and writing up, so there’s plenty of interesting work behind the scenes that needs doing, as well as actually broadcasting the show."

There's currently a small team of 4 dedicated local people and some others who have promised to help out now we've started transmissions, but we still need more volunteers - so eventually it can be a regular daily morning show!

For more information, contact Rupert Kirkham,
Production Manager, Somer Valley FM, St Chad's Avenue, Midsomer Norton, Somerset, BA3 2HG.
01761 411755 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Free training at Somer Valley FM

Here at your local community station, we are committed to training as many people as possible to make radio. Whether you're 10 or 80, we'd be happy to show you around and give you some training.

There are 3 fully equipped studios here, a stack of portable recording equipment and an outside broadcast unit available to capture what's going on in your area and relay it to your friends and relatives all over the world over the internet and to 65,000 people in the locality over the 97.5FM waveband.

We have regular training sessions at the studios for groups of all ages. Tuesday afternoons from 4-6pm we offer training courses for those of you who are at school during the day. If you're an adult and you would like some training - give us a call and we'll set up a time to suit you. After a few hours in the studio, you could be presenting your own show or helping other local people to put a programme together! Why not give it a try?

Call Rupert on 01761 411755 or email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

You won't regret it!