William King is rounding off three years of student radio with 24 hours of non-stop broadcasting. There'll be party rings, chocolate fingers and maybe even some cheese and pineapple things!
Sleep? Where we're going, we don't need sleep.
It's lockdown, it's midnight, and a masked vigilante is standing on a stool in a server room - it can only be one thing, the return of URY for Summer Term 2021! Tune in to hear what it sounds like when increasingly tired and stressed presenters dally about on air for a couple of hours, and see how long it takes us to start crying about Summer exams.
William King is rounding off three years of student radio with 24 hours of non-stop broadcasting. Everyone's got that thing which keeps them awake at night, that image they can't get out of their head. In an exclusive for URY, William King reveals his secret obsession.
Its the end of term, so come along and enjoy while The Man (read as 'Ofcom') tries to (read as 'tells us to') shut us down (read as 'not broadcast outside our allowed period')!
A carefully curated selection of broadly "alternative" (whatever that means) tunes from the classic to the eclectic, with a special nod of fondness to the arty and pretentious. Yes, "classic alternative" is kind of a contradiction in terms, but here at Speed of Life, we embrace paradox to the point of meaninglessness. Occasional themed weeks provide welcome respite from the usual swirl of chaos.
William King is rounding off three years of student radio with 24 hours of non-stop broadcasting. Sailors picking up URY probably have something wrong with their radio, but they can consider this hour a public service.
With a term 1 unlike any other almost over, join URY News as they speak to both the Vice Chancellor and some representatives from student media about all that has occured and what the year ahead may look like.
Urban Dictionary defines the term 'Hep Cat' as being: a musical cat who can hang and fit in with other cats that can jive. Making a show for those eclectic hep cats is what we plan to do here. Strictly for musical cats, not necessarily of the feline variety.
Playing music from the leftfield side of 70's 80s & 90s, for the final show of the term Stewart explores highlights of the NME Top 100 Albums, originally broadcast on URY in 1990.
The end of an exam-filled term couldn't come any sooner, and as Fergal Sharkey sang: "Here comes the summer"!
TOM'S BACK to soundtrack your final push towards freedom - it's so close you can taste it...
Describe the weeks events using song title and lyrics
William King is rounding off three years of student radio with 24 hours of non-stop broadcasting. Putting a fresh spin on Sunday-night-staple 'A Classical Bedtime', William's hoping the weeknight edition of the show is a bit more upbeat!
We're back! It's spring term of 2023 already, which means URY is back on air! Join us for the first show of the term, where we turn the AM transmitter on, put the station back on air and have a nice chill time discussing the term ahead, the holidays, and maybe even plans for URY!
URY's Music Team bring you their Top Ten New Tracks of the Week! Spanning every genre, with cutting edge discussion and feedback.
As URY turns 50, James Brookes celebrates the last half century of University Radio York. James will count backwards one year at a time playing the biggest hits, discussing the new events and crazes and the important moments in URY history until he reaches 1968 at the end of the summer term.
Join Bee (who is going in with no taste in music) as she is given nothing but a vibe to stick to and is made to find songs to fit it. Hopefully she'll know who Beyoncé is by the end of the term
Electronic oriented music celebrating the past, present and future of Disco, House, and whatever Nic has found this week. Interrupted by occasional gassing. You know like intermittent gas leaks, but fun.
It's time for me to finally leave. Three terms have now gone by with a lot of very poor quality shows under my belt. Let's end this farce: goodbye to all of me. Exeunt Keoni.
Now the end of term has arrived, and we don’t have anything better to do with ourselves, we thought we’d ruin our sleep schedules for a laugh. Join the URY gang as we pull an all nighter for your amusement, and to prove that we can.
Alex Tant-Brown has been given the Early Late Shift - late in the day, but early in this all-night extravaganza. Grab a midnight snack and join us for two hours of sleep-deprived revelry.