Anita Guest / Presenter
Anita Guest presents RehabCare On Air on Thursday evenings at 9.00pm on Dundalk FM 97.7, one of the station’s most meaningful and long-standing programmes, and one that stands as a genuine model of what community radio can achieve when it commits to inclusion.
RehabCare On Air has been giving voice and building confidence for RehabCare Dundalk participants since 2002, making it one of the longest-running continuous programmes in the station’s history. Music matters not just as radio but as a therapeutic and social intervention: for many participants, the experience of preparing for and delivering a live broadcast is transformative, developing communication skills, self-confidence, and a sense of belonging in the community.
Anita has been a constant and nurturing presence at the heart of this work. Her commitment to the programme and to the participants within it has helped sustain one of Dundalk FM’s most important community partnerships across more than two decades.
She is also a longstanding member of Encore Productions, the award-winning drama group drawn from RehabCare Resource Centre. The group won Best Healthcare Initiative in Disability Services at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards in 2023, the latest in a series of recognitions for work that Anita has been part of throughout its development.
Anita has produced several Spotlight Programmes – mostly on Country and Western Music, but also on pop bands, the Eurovision and a Spooky Hallowe’en special.
The RehabCare on Air show includes contributors from the centre and Anita recorded news and requests on her digital recorder for the show.
Anita wanted to make a radio documentary about the people of RehabCare – and researched and scripted questions for the manager and support staff. She took the listener on a tour of the centre, stopping to look at photographs and tell us about the day trips and sports days and the classes such as mindfulness, gardening and cookery.
RehabCare On Air on Dundalk FM 97.7 airs on Thursday evenings. It is a programme that changes lives, and Anita Guest is at the centre of making that happen every week.
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