Community Garden Radio (show)
Community Garden Radio is a listener-run radio station. It is broadcast live every Wednesday with Shaun Keaveny from 1pm-3pm BST. Broadcasts are available to subscribers of the CGR Patreon.
History
Following Shaun's departure from BBC Radio 6 Music in September 2021, an experimental radio station to be supported via Patreon was launched, with two test broadcasts in December 2021.[1][2]
The Community Garden Radio broadcast its first official broadcast, Episode 003, on Friday 7th January 2022.
Initially starting to work with a friend, Clive Tulloh of Burning Bright Productions, and Clive's son Ben, the trio began recording podcasts. The radio show live via Patreon was was an idea from Ben.[3]
From its first official broadcast in 2022, the show was broadcast on a Friday unless it was moved to another day of the week for schedluing reasons. In 2023, from episode 057 onwards, the show was broadcast on a Wednesday. Originally it was due to Shaun's commitments with Radio 2 but on the 31st January 2023, Shaun announced[4] the move to Wednesday would be permanent unless the new day was too much of a change.
CGR in the media
Shaun has appeared in a number of media interviews since leaving BBC Radio 6, plugging CGR and other projects.
- Far Out magazine: Far Out Meets: Shaun Keaveny discusses leaving BBC 6 Music and his new podcast. (15th December 2021)
- Lancashire Post: DJ Shaun Keaveny lines up a new career after BBC 6Music. (17th January 2022)
- The Times: Would you pay £4 a month to listen to Shaun Keaveny? (23rd January 2022; login required)
- MusicWeek: Former BBC 6 Music presenter Shaun Keaveny announces return to live radio. (8th February 2022)
- i News: Shaun Keaveny: ‘When I left 6 Music I was panicking. I live in a perpetual crisis of confidence’. (22nd March 2022; subscription required)
- The Guardian: Shaun Keaveny’s journey from the BBC to DIY radio: ‘It’s been a huge liberation’. (3rd April 2022)
- Metro: Shaun Keaveny admits leaving the BBC after 14 years was ‘a wrench’ and that life is now ‘terrifying and exhilarating’. (11th May 2022)
- The Telegraph: Shaun Keaveny on leaving the BBC: ‘I was forced out onto the ice like an elderly Inuit relative...’. (6th November 2022; login required)
External links
- Community Garden Radio website
- Community Garden Radio Patreon
- Twitch.tv
Community Garden Radio (show) on Twitter