UPDATED DECEMBER 2024
Last month we published what we thought were the last two pages of John Harding's Radio Atlantis photo album. But, the very next day, another batch of great
photos arrived from him. You can see them here. We also have part three of Caroline in the 80s, looking at events in the North Sea 40 years ago; how to enjoy a
beer and help Caroline! And, as Christmas approaches, why not get into the festive mood with our (slightly updated) pages on Christmas in International Waters?
The much-missed Kenny Everett would have been 80 years old this Christmas Day. To mark the anniversary Boom Radio is broadcasting The Unheard Kenny Everett. BBC Radio 4 Extra is airing
three shows Kenny made for BBC Radio Bristol after being sacked by Radio 1 (24th, 26th, 27th December). It is also repeating Paul Rowley's documentaries Kenny Everett: The BBC Local Radio Years (23rd December, first broadcast
in 2001) and Happy Christmas Maurice Cole (25th December, originally from 2009).
There are also some celebrations of Radio London's 60th birthday this month: Radio Mi Amigo has special programmes between
20th and 23rd December from the LV18 in Harwich; at almost the same time (22nd and 23rd December) there will be Big L Radio London. See the respective websites for
more details. Meanwhile on Caroline Flashback, the Archive Hour (8-9pm) over the weekend of 14th / 15th December will be remembering the launch of Big L
with lovingly restored vintage recordings of Earl Richmond, Pete Brady and Paul Kaye.
See the contents page and DJ Directories of the sixties, seventies and eighties for full details of this website.
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FORTY YEARS AGO:
16th December 1984: Dutch station Radio Monique began broadcasts from the Radio Caroline ship (more details here).
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SIXTY YEARS AGO:
14th December 1964: The Dutch offshore television station TV Noordzee closed down. Radio broadcasts continued.
16th December: Tom Pepper, the owner of Radio Invicta, drowned with two employees (more details here).
17th December: Dutch police raided the REM island, home of Radio Noordzee, and closed it down.
23rd December: Radio London started regular programmes 6am-9pm, on 1133 kHz (more details here).
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Britain's first offshore radio station, Radio Caroline, began broadcasting at Easter 1964 from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.
She was followed by a host of other radio stations based on boats and marine structures dotted around the coast.
These “pirates” rapidly won an enormous and enthusiastic audience.
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
has been set up to honour the stars, the broadcasters, from that golden era of music radio.
This site is a tribute to the people who endured a daily battle with the elements to provide a soundtrack to the swinging sixties.
(The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is a British-based website. It only includes those DJs who broadcast in English and could be heard in the UK. Offshore radio also flourished in Denmark,
Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel and New Zealand. The absence of the DJs from these countries in the Hall of Fame does not suggest that they are any less deserving, just that they are outside the scope of this site. Please
see the links page for details of websites which cover offshore radio in other parts of the world.)
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The inductees in The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame are listed alphabetically. To find your favourite voice from the sixties either select
it from the drop-down list below, search the site using the Google box or click on the appropriate page from the table of contents beneath. For broadcasters from the later decades, go to the Seventies
Supplement or Eighties Supplement. There are some that we know very little about - see the help wanted page.
THE OFFSHORE STATIONS OF THE 60s, 70s AND 80s
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We are very grateful to everyone who has contributed information, recordings or memorabilia to The
Pirate Radio Hall of Fame. We are always on the lookout for more so, if you have any items of interest, please get
in
touch.
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A number of the photos, stickers and recordings on this site are beginning to show
their age. Apologies for those that are of less than perfect quality. Many of the photographs were distributed freely by the various radio stations
and were intended for as wide a circulation as possible. Others have been donated to The Pirate Radio Hall of
Fame which are of unknown origin. Where photos have been scanned from books, newspapers or magazines, we have given credit.
However, if anybody believes that their copyright has been inadvertently infringed by the inclusion of an item on this site, please
get in touch and it will be removed immediately. Similarly, anybody who has supplied
audio for The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame has been credited but tapes get passed from collector
to collector and often there is no way of knowing who made the original recording. Our apologies to anyone who thinks their work has been used
here without due acknowledgment.
The name ‘Radio London’ and the RL logo are used by kind permission of Radio London Ltd.
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame links to MP3s which can be downloaded by UK-based
customers from Amazon. As in a traditional record shop, Amazon offers multiple versions of some songs. It isn't always easy to identify precisely which
version is which. We have endeavoured to ensure that each link leads to the appropriate version of the relevant track - the one that was played by the
offshore DJs of the era - but please listen carefully before purchasing. If you discover that any of them are later re-recordings, please
let us know.
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame participates in the Amazon Europe S.à r.l. Associates Programme, an affiliate
advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.
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