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How to get tickets for the recording of your favourite programmes, who to contact if you have a news story to tell and how to make comments or complaints about something you've heard on air.  Everything you need to know about contacting, contributing, complaining and commenting on radio in London.

NB: If you contact the media with a news story, it's important to remember that:

• there's no guarantee that any particular story will be used
• the editor/producer's decision is always final
• stories may be used in ways which you do not expect or approve of.

Audience tickets

Queries, comments & complaints

Contribute stories/ideas
Newsrooms
Programmes
Advice/guidelines

See also:
Training courses in dealing with the media

• BBC Ticket Unit (free tickets to attend the recording of comedy/quiz shows and concerts for Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 5) tel: 020 8576 1227

Queries, comments and complaints

• BBC Audiencelines (the BBC's telephone lines for listener/viewer queries)
• BBC Online Feedback page (online feedback form, plus a search facility for identifying the email addresses for BBC programmes and departments)
• The Voice of the Listener & Viewer (membership organisation which keeps a watch on all TV and radio programmes on behalf of the public)
• The Broadcasting Standards Commission (statuary body for standards and fairness in broadcasting, both television and radio)

Contribute your news stories/take part in programmes
If you have a news item or an interesting story to tell, get in touch with the appropriate newsdesk or programme. 

Newsrooms/local stations

• Active 107.5 FM - for Havering/East London stories
• BBC Essex - for Essex stories
• BBC London 94.9 - for Greater London stories
• BBC Radio Kent - for Kent stories
• BBC Three Counties Radio - for Herts/Beds/Bucks stories
• Choice FM - for Brixton/South London stories and African-Caribbean interest stories
• FLR 107.3 FM - for Lewisham stories and African-Caribbean interest stories
• Kiss 100 FM - dance music interest
• London Greek Radio - for Greek interest stories
• London Turkish Radio - for Turkish interest stories
• Millennium Radio - for Thamesmead stories, Vietnamese and Asian interest stories
• Spectrum International Radio - for Arabic interest, Jewish interest stories
• Star FM - for Slough/West of London stories
• Sunrise Radio - for Asian interest stories
• 107.8 FM Thames Radio - for Kingston-upon-Thames/South West London stories

See also the News section for details of the major radio news providers.

Programmes/schemes which invite contributors or stories

• BBC Casting Call (website where BBC programme makers invite contributions - mainly television, but occasionally radio)
• BBC Diversity Database (database of diverse potential programme contributors for BBC programmes)
• BBC Home Truths (Radio 4 - personal stories about families and relationships)
• BBC You & Yours (BBC Radio 4 - consumer interest)

See also the On air: phone-ins section of this guide.

Advice/guidelines

• Using the media (from Different Voices media and information network)
• Using radio and television in your media campaign (from Different Voices)
• Proposing ideas to broadcasters (from Different Voices)

See also Training courses in dealing with the media.