Gateway 97.8 

One of the many shows over the xmas period is the following. Ray Clark well known across the radio land joins gateway for a special radio show.

Ray says:

“Gateway is the community radio station for Basildon and District www.gateway97.8.com and they asked me if I’d record a show for the Christmas period about ‘pirate radio’… well, I had a thought and remembered Radio City’s ‘Basildon Request Show, I had a search around and Chris Dannatt at piratememories.com had a reasonable quality recording of an original episode presented by Chris Cross. 

Anyway, 60 years later the original, but re-vamped and spruced up show will be broadcast once again to Basildon. It’ll be fun if any of the many requests from the time will be heard by surviving family members… or perhaps even the person that sent the original letter to Radio City all those years ago.

It’s due for broadcast at 1pm on Friday 2nd January 2026″

Gateway is proud to broadcast this amazing show so keep a look out for all our Christmas radio shows!