Pirates of the Airwaves is a podcast where Mark Wakely (founder of the Land Based Pirate Radio of the 70's 80' Facebook group), talks to some of the people involved in the pirate radio world in the 70's and 80's. 

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Ian Harling - Radio Cavendish (SW), South Coast Radio (MW & FM)

This week we are again outside London. We're off to the south coast with Ian Harling from Radio Cavendish and South Coast Radio amongĀ  others. Here how they smuggled a...

Chris Cooper - Empire Radio (SW), EST (Birmingham), Voice of Peace and Radio Caroline

This time I chat to Chris Cooper from Birmingham. He was one of the people behind Empire Radio, the short wave pirate, then went on to found the Birmingham FM pirate E...

1984 Land Based Pirate Documentary whit Lawrie Hallett

Something a little different this week. Lawrie Hallett has given us a documentary he made for LBC in 1984. It was never broadcast by them because of the lawyers, but y...

Martin Spencer, Mark Dezzani plus others. Radio Zodiac, Phoenix Radio, Alice's Restaurant Pt.2

So, here we have the second part of my chat with Mark Dezzani, Martin Spencer and Lawrie Hallett. We get through plenty, including talking about the contribution of so...

Martin Spencer, Mark Dezzani plus others. Radio Zodiac, Phoenix Radio, Alice's Restaurant Pt.1

In the first part of this two part special, I get four old pirates in a studio and light the anorak touch paper and stand well back! In this four way conversation betw...

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