15-08-2017, 11:01 AM
Didn't hear the Radio London Closedown, nor the Keith (Cardboard Shoes)Skues programme from BBC Eastern Counties Radio, but I did listen to 'Johnnie Walker Meets the Pirates' on Radio 2 last night. An Interesting show, not least because it featured interviews with seldom heard folk such as Pete Brady, and snippets from a few of the short-lived stations like 'Swinging Radio England', which include the story of Radio Caroline stealing the then new SRE Jingles. One former pirate DJ who didn't even get a mention was DLT, who presented the Breakfast show from Caroline North on Monday 14 August 1967 ( I have an MP3 coded CD of about 9.5 hours of Caroline North's broadcasts on 14/8/67, from 9AM till after midnight, and, yesterday, was listening for an hour from 9 to 10AM of DLT's show, which I managed to time to tthe minute - i.e. hearing that hour's transmission between exactly 9 and 10AM 50 years later (Isn't modern technology marvellous??) How many UK based 'pirates' were there? Besides the best known ones, I can think of KING Radio, Radio Sutch, R. Invicta, Radio Essex, Tower Radio, Radio 390, and Britain Radio, the latter, IIRC, owned by Ted Allburey, set up, along with SRE on the 'Laissez Faire'