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Past Productions

Here's a selection of our latest work for local radio in the UK:

The Lighthouse Group

On Good Friday 2008, The Pulse in West Yorkshire played a special feature from Whistling Frog about The Lighthouse Group (TLG) in Bradford, which seeks to help young people at crisis in their education, excluded or at risk of exclusion from school. Underscored by a vibrant music track, the programme features interviews with TLG staff and youngsters who are participating in and have benefited from TLG's alternative education provision. It shows how God's love worked out in such a practical way can give young people a second chance, and start to be all they were created to be - shedding light on an invaluable work.

Sounds of Christmas

Christmas means all kinds of things to different people, and in 'Sounds of Christmas', played by Home FM (now Pennine FM) at the end of 2007, Whistling Frog captured a wide range of memories, desires and hopes for the season through talking to ordinary people on the street. These earthy thoughts punctuate a moving narrative reflection on the experience of that first Christmas in all its joy and pain, from the perspective of Mary - against a varied backdrop of music old and new.

Harrogate Town Pastors

Outside the bars and nightclubs of Harrogate town centre on a Friday or Saturday night might not be the first place you'd imagine for a vibrant Christian ministry, but you'd be surprised. In 'Harrogate Town Pastors', played by Stray FM for Christmas 2007, Whistling Frog explores this exciting work, chatting both with the pastors themselves and the people they help. The broad aim of the ministry is to show God's unconditional love to people where they need it. With crime down and positive comments from police and punters alike, the programme brings out the full flavour of a ministry which is all about 'being positive in the streets'.

He is there

For Good Friday 2007, Whistling Frog played a feature about the work of the United Churches' Healing Ministry (UCHM). Founded in 1992, the ministry offers healing, hope, love and care to people suffering pain and trauma of various kinds. Testimony from people helped is interwoven with moving reflections on what Good Friday means, and the freedom and hope that Jesus offers.

An Angelic Christmas for Whistling Frog

lbcangels Angels were everywhere on local radio in Christmas 2006 thanks to Whistling Frog Productions! Both of our special Christmas programmes covered the theme of angels in very different ways. The first was broadcast on HOME FM in Huddersfield and asked the questions ‘What are angels’ and ‘What do they do?’ The programme mixed music with the testimonies of Christians who claim to have met with these angelic beings, all with the purpose of getting the audience to think about the real meaning of Christmas.

Our other angel offering on local radio was a two-hour live discussion on LBC 97.3 in London. Every Friday the station has a ‘Psychic Show’, discussing all manner of psychic phenomena, and this year Whistling Frog were given the opportunity to produce a Psychic Show Christmas Special – all about angels.

We heard from Jane Williams - the Archbishop of Canterbury’s wife - reading from the Christmas story, along with some other excellent guests including Steve Hollinghurst, a Church Army Evangelist who specialises in reaching out to people involved in the New Age. There was an encouraging response to this live phone-in show, with many texts coming in for our competition and lots of listeners requesting free packs of Angelic Realm Cards produced by the Christian Enquiry Agency.

vainikolo Meet the Volcano

Our Independent Easter 2006 feature for The Pulse of West Yorkshire featured an exclusive interview with one of the greatest rugby players in the world. Lesley Vainikolo is the Bradford Bulls' secret weapon - a Tongan who terrorises defences with his unstoppable running. But what makes Lesley, nicknamed 'The Volcano' tick? In this six-minute special the fans of the Bulls get a chance to ask Lesley about his passion for rugby league, and what Good Friday means to him... Meet the Volcano has been short-listed for the 2006 Independent Easter Award.

 

 

 

Homeless at Christmas

awardoct06b Whistling Frog was commissioned by local West Yorkshire radio station Home FM in Huddersfield to produce special material for their Christmas schedules in 2005. The features focused on people who had no homes to go to at Christmas and highlighted the work of the Nightstop charity, a group who co-ordinate homeless people to stay with host families in West Yorkshire. This series of five short programmes won the Independent Christmas Award 2005.

 

Impossible Forgiveness

Our second Independent Christmas featurepastprod for 2005 was produced for popular London talk radio station LBC 97.3. Whistling Frog produced a live one-hour exploration of the topic of forgiveness focusing on the 7/7 London bombings. The programme was presented by Ann Widdicombe MP and featured John Mosey as the main studio guest; John lost his daughter in the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. Other guests on the phone included the husband of a 7/7 victim, a psychologist, as well as a number of callers from the general public.

 

A Place Called Gethsemene

home This short feature was produced for Huddersfield's commercial radio station HOME FM . It tells the story of Huddersfield woman Diane Baxter and husband Paul who were forced to face their fears about illness and death when Diane developed an aggressive form of Multiple Sclerosis. As her condition worsened her breathing was affected and doctors warned she was only weeks away from death. Producer Sandra Coleman said, 'This started out to be a programme about healing, but became a very different story as we focused on Diane's suffering and acknowledged the fact that God does not always heal.' This feature can be downloaded from Audiopot .

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