The Riverside Radio team has been working hard to bring you festive offerings for our Christmas and New Year schedule 2024 and into 2025. You'll be able to tune into our Pantomime, Cinderella, find out who made the top ten in our Track of the Year chart and also catch up on all the news, sports and arts reviews of the year from across south west London and re-live Christmas light switch on events with as much normal programming as possible in-between. All of us here at Riverside Radio wish all our listeners in Richmond, Wandsworth, Merton and Lambeth a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

CINDERELLA

Riverside Radio presents its 2024 Pantomime CINDERELLA written and directed by Spotlight’s Sian Kenyon and starring Riverside Breakfast presenters Jason Rosam as Buttons, Ali Ineson and Ali Palmer as the Evil Sisters, newsreaders Cece Kane as Cinderella and Charlie Pritchard as Prince Charming alongside News Editor Cam Hall as Dandini and Riverside Drive’s Ian Barclay as Baroness Hardup and Martin Adams as the Fairy Godmother. Recorded in front of a live studio audience at The Exhibit in Balham.

Thursday 19th December - 1pm

Friday 20th December - 12pm

Saturday 21st December - 2pm

Sunday 22nd December - 5pm

Monday 23rd December - 3pm

Christmas Eve - 12pm

Christmas Day - 1pm

Boxing Day - 11am and 9pm

Friday 27th December - 10am and 7pm

Saturday 28th December - 11am and 6pm

Sunday 29th December - 1pm

Monday 30th December - 10am and 6pm

New Years Eve - 11am and 3pm

New Years Day - 1pm and 8pm

Thursday 2nd January - 7pm

TRACK OF THE YEAR 2024

Riverside Radio loves supporting and promoting south west London based musicians wether they are singers, songwriters or local bands. Riverside Radio presenter and Digital Editor Joey Cooke is the man who organises local artists to be featured every week and has put together a chart of the top ten songs this year which have been voted on by Riverside Radio presenters and listeners on our social media platforms. Who will make it to the top spot and become Riverside Radio’s Track of the Year for 2024.

Monday 23rd December - 2pm

Christmas Eve - 1pm and 10pm

Christmas Day - 2pm

Boxing Day - 10am and 8pm

Friday 27th December - 1pm

Saturday 28th December - 10am and 2pm

Sunday 29th December - 3pm

Monday 30th December - 8pm

New Years Eve - 10am and 6pm

New Years Day - 3pm

Thursday 2nd January - 1pm

CAROLS IN BATTERSEA SQUARE

Recorded live in Battersea Square on Tuesday 3rd December hosted by Jason Rosam and Ali Ineson from Riverside Breakfast featuring community carol singing, a live brass band with Christmas music from St Mary’s Church Battersea Choir and local school choirs raising money for The Katherine Low Settlement.

Wednesday 18th December - 3pm

Friday 20th December - 1pm

Saturday 21st December - 10am

Sunday 22nd December - 11am

Monday 23rd December - 11am and 8pm

Christmas Eve - 6pm

Christmas Day - 10am

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS

Relive our Christmas Light Switch on events across South West London and hear performances from local choirs, bands and singer songwriters, Panto stars and theatre groups and schools who took to the Riverside Radio stage in Battersea High Street, Wimbledon, Twickenham, Richmond, Putney, Wandsworth, Balham and outside our studios in Doddington Square.

Wednesday 18th December - 12pm

Thursday 19th December - 12pm

Friday 20th December - 7pm

Saturday 21st December - 11am and 6pm

Sunday 22nd December - 12pm

Monday 23rd December - 10am and 6pm

Christmas Eve - 2pm

Christmas Day - 11am

Boxing Day - 12pm and 2pm

RIVERSIDE REPORTS 2024 REVIEW

Our Riverside Reports team covered a momentous year in local Politics as Sadiq Khan won a third term as Mayor of London and a new Assembly was formed in the London Elections in May followed by a Summer General Election which wiped the Tories off the south west London map in Parliament. Our news and political editor Cam Hall take sun through the local political year with highlights from our Question Time debates in Wimbledon and Putney and our marathon results shows for both elections.

The news team also highlight some of the biggest local news stories of 2024 such as the ongoing battle from local campaigners who want to Save Wimbledon Park from the development plans of the All England Lawn Tennis Club to create a bigger Wimbledon Championships to the flooding of AFC Wimbledon’s pitch at Plough Lane.

Wednesday 18th December - 6pm

Saturday 21st December - 3pm

Sunday 22nd December - 5pm

Monday 23rd December - 9pm

Christmas Eve - 7pm

Christmas Day - 3pm

Boxing Day - 6pm

Friday 27th December - 12pm and 9pm

Saturday 28th December - 1pm

Sunday 29th December - 2pm

Monday 30th December - 11am

Friday 3rd January - 1pm

RIVERSIDE RADIO SPORTS REVIEW 2024

The Riverside Radio sports team review a gigantic year of sport with The Euro’s, Olympics and Paralympics as well as all the successes and losses of our local sports teams across south west London. Battersea Power Station hosted a Team GB and Paralympics GB FanZone and AFC Wimbledon are ending the year heading to the playoffs of League 2.

Saturday 21st December - 4pm

Christmas Eve - 9pm

Christmas Day - 8pm

Boxing Day - 3pm

Friday 27th December - 11am and 10pm

Saturday 28th December - 4pm

Sunday 29th December - 4pm

New Years Eve - 12pm

Thursday 2nd January - 9pm

ARTS WATCH REVIEW 2024

As Wandsworth becomes the London Borough of Culture next year the Arts team cover the latest offerings from south west London’s arts and culture venues in 2024 including the Wandsworth Arts Fringe and Lambeth Fringe. Listen again to some of the best interviews with actors, performers, film makers and beat boxers who’ve been taking to stages to perform from Battersea Arts Centre to the New Wimbledon Theatre and everywhere else in-between.

Friday 20th December - 8pm

Christmas Eve - 8pm

Christmas Day - 9pm

Boxing Day - 1pm

Friday 27th December - 8pm

Saturday 28th December - 12pm

Sunday 29th December - 5pm

New Years Eve - 1pm

New Years Day - 6pm

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