Mark Wakely
Founder and presenter of Pirates of the Airwaves podcast and the Land Based Pirate Radio of the 70's & 80's Facebook group, also founder of 1386 Audio podcast production company. Mark has been involved in radio in one form or another for over 40 years and has a Masters Degree in Audio production from BCU. Doing his first pirate radio show at 15 he could now be classed as a veteran of the medium.
Appears in 8 Episodes
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...
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...