DT Locations: Harchester Sound
2.75				Harchester Sound featured in 9 episodes of DT between Seasons 1-5. By the late 90's through to early 00's, Harchester Sound FM was the main local radio station for the Midlands town. And along with the Harchester Chronicle and its rival paper The Echo, Sound's sports department was the local source for the latest news on Harchester United Football Club. At this time, Bob Adams was the station's Head of Sport, also hosting his own programming, and under his team were main reporters Tony and Alan, and the junior Lucy Patcham. When Tony and Alan get their stories mixed up over who has food poisoning and whose mother is ill(!), Lucy gets her big break when Bob asks her to cover the Coca Cola Cup 3rd Round between Harchester and Chelsea. The 2-1 Chelsea win turns out to be manager Ron Atkinson's last game, and Lucy bags the exclusive on his departure. As Lucy rises at the station, fiancé Dean Hocknell's brief fling with chairman's daughter Georgina is exposed through a CCTV sex tape. Lucy gets closer to star striker Karl Fletcher having interviewed him earlier in the season, and as the club's Harchester Says No drugs campaign proves a distraction for the team's win rate, Lucy is hired for a new reporter's job with Sky Sports in London and leaves the station. Bob leads with the station's coverage of the club, as excitement builds for Harchester's progress in the FA Cup, and a fiery debate between chairman Jerry and Councillor Lal in a push for the new stadium to go through. Bob's public face at the station gives him a level of responsibility that say the Chronicle's Hankin wouldn't abide by, and on his phone-ins, he lets the listeners have their moment (provided it is clean!) with the faces of authority at HUFC. Could Lynda Block fulfil how much the club meant to it's fans when taking over from Jerry? Would the embattled Ray Wyatt stick to his word and resign if the club weren't in Europe next season? Should Monday Bandele put himself forward to be the club's new manager as they faced the UEFA Cup without Alan Rothman? In 2003-04 we hear of Radio Harchester, and by 2006-07 Harchester 104 and Harchester FM. It is not clear if these are all fellow stations, or whether the no-further-mentioned Harchester Sound re-branded into one of these.
1.3: Lucy and Fletch get to know each other
Harchester Sound appearances
1997		1998			1999
1.1 (#1) Tuesday 14th October 1997 Studio 1.2 (#2) Wednesday 15th October 1997 Office 1.3 (#3) Tuesday 21st October 1997 Office			1.29 (#29) Tuesday 20th January 1998 Office 2.30 (#94) Thursday 10th December 1998 Studio			2.75 (#139) Tuesday 18th May 1999 Outside, studio
2000			2001
3.52 (#192) Thursday 13th April 2000 Studio, street outside, car park 4.10 (#212) Sunday 3rd December 2000 Outside, studio, reception			5.5 (#233) Situation Vacant Sunday 14th October 2001 Studio