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Arnold Levine - Radio Concord, Dynamite 235
In this new episode I’m talking to Arnold Lavine from 1970’s station Radio Concord. We chat about how Concord started, and, how it went on to be the radical voice of t...
1984 Offshore Documentary with Lawrie Hallett
This time we have been given permission by Lawrie Hallett to play out his other pirate documentary. You may remember episode 21 where he talked to some of the London L...
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 among 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 with 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...
Bob Lawrence Part 2 - London Music Radio (70's), Radio Caroline and various ILR stations
This is the second part of my chat with Bob Lawrence. We talk about regulation in radio, the future of medium wave, Caroline's 648 licence, the end of LMR, his time on...
Bob Lawrence - Part 1 - London Music Radio (70's), Radio Caroline and various ILR
In this episode you can hear the first half of my conversation with Bob Lawrence (Richard Thompson). We talk about his start in radio and his time as part of the origi...
Lawrie Hallett - The Poacher turned Gamekeeper Episode, Phoenix Radio, Alice's Restaurant, Ofcom
For this episode I talk to Lawrie Hallett, the poacher turned gamekeeper. He went from pirate radio operator to ofcom official via a whole load of radio related projec...
Mark Wakely-Radio Comsat, Phoenix Radio and Radio Shoestring
For this first episode of 2023 the tables have been turned on your host by Lawrie Hallett, and the subject of the podcast is me. I would like to point out that this wa...
Bear- Telstar One, Alice's Restaurant and RFM
In this episode I talk to Bear, the legendry rock "Gramophone Announcer" from Telstar One 235m, Alice's Restaurant and RFM, amongst others. He takes us through his rad...
Philip Bendall - Radio Jackie and Radio Concord
This is the podcast where we talk to some of the people who helped shape the radio landscape of the UK back in the 1970’s and 80’s by fracturing the occasional law and...
Tony Randall-Radio Jackie, Sun Radio and RFL
This episode we talk to Tony Randall. He cut his pirate teeth with Radio Jackie and and went on to be involved with numerus stations and he had a few brushes with the ...
Claire and Dave from Rock FM/RFM
Episode 11 finds us talking to Clair and Dave from London pirate, Rock FM. They came up with the idea of RFM in the pub, so it seems appropriate that we chat to them w...
Bert Bridges- Radio Argus
Bert Bridges tell us how he got into pirate radio because of some builders from Cornwall while living in a bedsit in Ilford and being busted well after the broadcast. ...
Danny Dipole - Radios, Titanic, RIP, Comsat, Phoenix and Shoestring.
In this episode I talk to Danny Goldman (Dipole) about his journey from East London FM pirate Radio Titanic to legal radio in Switzerland presenting his shows in Germa...
Luke The Duke - Radio City
This time I'm chatting to Luke The Duke, one of the leading lights from North West London Rock'n'Roll pirate, Radio City. He also talks about his involvement with othe...
Gary Drew- Melody FM and Soul FM
This episode we are in conversation with Gary Drew. His love for soul music and pirate radio encouraged him and some friends to set up East London soul station Melody ...
Colin Noble-Alice's Restaurant
In episode 6 we chat to Colin Noble, presenter from London rock radio station Alice's Restaurant. He tells us how he went from rock fan and listener to presenter on th...
Ivor Herdson- RFL and Skyline Radio
In this episode I chat with Ivor Herdson (Mark Ashton) from RFL 92FM, County Radio and Skyline Radio about how he got involved in pirate radio in the first place and ...
Steve Leyland - Radio Jackie North, MAR and various Merseyside pirates
Known to the listeners of Merseyside and the North West of England as Steve West, we hear about his time on Radio Jackie North, MAR and many other stations, he tells u...
Steve Marshall - Radio Invicta, Voice of Peace and various Irish pirates
He was a listener, then helper, then presenter on London soul station Radio Invicta, after which he joined The Voice of Peace somewhere in the Mediterranean and then e...
Nick Catford - Radio Jackie
In this episode I talk to Land-Based Pirate Radio legend and founder of Radio Jackie, Nick Catford, (or Michael Knight if you prefer). We chat about the early days, th...
Pyers Easton - LMR (1980's) and hundreds of transmitters
In this first episode we hear from the man who was the transmitter engineer for many pirate radio stations in the 1970's and 80's. Pyers Easton was the technical wizar...