Pirates of the Airwaves
Mark WakelyMark Wakely chats to some of the people involved in the land based pirate radio world of the 1970's and 1980's in the UK.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 25 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Categories | Music InterviewsMusic HistoryMusic | ||||
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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 the 1970’s counterculture in London. We also talk about his excellent book, “Banned... more
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 Land Based Pirates of the early 80’s. Well, this time he covers the offshore pirates... more
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 FM transmitter from the Netherlands and another transmitter across to France for a... more
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 EST before going on to The Voice of Peace and Radio Caroline. He can now be heard re... more
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 you can hear it now as part of our podcast series.
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 some well known (and some not so well known) pirates, where, when, why and how some b... more
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 between Lawrie Hallett (Brian Marshall), Martin Spencer (Dave Lane), Mark Dezzani (Rodg... more
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 the Mi Amigo and plenty of other anorak stuff.
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- Arrr!
Excellent content and well produced. Some riveting stories - top marks Mark! Fascinating stuff for anyone with even half an ear’s interest in what is really REAL radio.
Apple Podcasts5PaulRusling
United Kingdom3 years ago - Absolutely brilliant
I am loving these podcasts.
they are so well produced and interesting, Marks passion for radio shines through and hey if I’m an anorak so be it.
The Nick Catford one was very special for me as I used to live in that area and the Sunday broadcasts were always the playground talk on Monday mornings.
Keep up the good work Mark.
Apple Podcasts5Faderman558United Kingdom3 years ago - Arrr!
Excellent content and well produced. Some riveting stories - top marks Mark!
Apple Podcasts5PaulRuslingUnited Kingdom3 years ago - RingwayManchester
Not had chance to listen yet but seen Pyers on the Making Waves documentary so know this is going to be great!
Apple Podcasts5ringwaymanchesterUnited Kingdom3 years ago
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