Patients at Swindon's Great Western Hospital are to be treated to a host of Christmas tunes over the airwaves.

The Christmas Request Show is being held tomorrow as part of a new monthly event.

Hospital DJs and Swindon FM are teaming up to broadcast requests to both patients at GWH and friends and relatives at home.

The link-up is one of the first in the UK to broadcast requests both inside and outside the hospital.

And, to add an even more festive touch, Wroughton Choral Society will sing Christmas carol requests from the hospital's atrium.

The show, which will be broadcast across DAB digital radio as well as in the hospital, also marks the first anniversary of Hospital Radio Swindon in the GWH.

The hospital radio programmes, produced by volunteers, are broadcast 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The show's presenter Phil Wheeler said: "We try to make a stay in hospital a little more comfortable at any time of year. Listeners at home can call our number and link up with patients in the hospital, to let them know they are thinking about them with a song or a Christmas message."

Call the show between noon and 3pm tomorrow on 01793 509888.