Mel Kirkpatrick

Year Joined: 2019

Tell us about your role and volunteering experience at Radio Horton:

A newbie request collector! Been volunteering at Hearing Dogs for Deaf People for seven years. Pleased to be volunteering in the NHS having worked as a midwife for 20 years – and at the Horton!

What would be your top three Desert Island Discs?

  • Piazzolla; Fionnuala Hunt – Libertango
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Midsummer Nights Dream
  • ABBA – Dancing Queen

Music artists that have influenced you:

Itzhak Perlman, Evelyn Glennie, Paul McCartney

Three words to describe volunteering at a hospital radio station:

Giving, enriching, communicating.