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Posted by Alice Smith on 09 September 2024

MATT FORDE AND JON RICHARDSON TO PRESENT

STAR-STUDDED COMEDY BENEFIT FOR RNOH CHARITY

We are thrilled to announce that comedy favourites Matt Forde and Jon Richardson will host a star-studded night of fun and laughter at Absolute Radio Live at the London Palladium on Sunday 17 November, in support of RNOH Charity. The stellar line-up features some of the country’s best-loved comedians and is sure to make for a sell-out event.

Matt became an ambassador for RNOH Charity in May after life-saving surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) last year. We are privileged that Absolute Radio, where good friends Matt and Jon host their own shows, is supporting our cause through this popular event, which will feature Josh Widdicombe, Suzi Ruffell, Glenn Moore and other top stand-up performers.

Matt joined The Dave Berry Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio to share the announcement on 9 September and said: “RNOH is a national hospital, so anyone in the country could get referred there, and it’s one of the best orthopaedic hospitals in the world. The work that they do, from giving people spinal surgery and removing cancer, to a lot of work with veterans and giving them prosthetic limbs, means it’s a hospital that needs a lot of extra support – beyond the NHS budget that they get – to do pioneering work and to help any patient that ends up there. And it’s such a special place, the treatment that you get there is really above and beyond, but it can only really keep doing that with the help from the Charity to fund all the extra developments.

“I was on a ward with people from all over Britain. It wasn’t just a local hospital, I was with people from Leeds, from Cornwall, from Newcastle. Hopefully none of us ever have to go there, but I did and my recovery might not have gone the way it did without the support of that Charity. It’s a privilege that this night at the Palladium will raise money for them – this Charity helps the hospital that saved my life and it may well save yours one day.”

RNOH Charity Chief Executive Rosie Stolarski said: “It is an honour to be chosen as the charity supported by this year’s Absolute Radio Live event. We can’t wait to be there! RNOH Charity’s mission is to help create the best patient experience for everyone at RNOH and we are truly delighted to receive this wonderful support from our friends at Absolute. Whether it’s funding a new scanner to speed up patient waiting times, equipping the operating theatres with state-of-the-art machines or funding pioneering genomic research into cancer, all the money raised will go directly to help patients at the hospital.”

Tickets to Absolute Radio Live, in aid of RNOH Charity, go on sale at 9am this Friday 13 September. Find out more here.