Odds & Ends

This section of The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is for pages on subjects that don't fit any of the other categories - items of historical interest, trivia, nostalgia, whatever. If you have any goodies to offer, please get in touch.

• Some advertising rate cards from the offshore stations of the sixties.

• Some Radio Atlanta documents kindly provided by Keith Martin and Ray Clark.

• The Radio Atlantis story.

• No man will ever forget August 14th 1967.

• When the Dutch legislated against the pirates, August 1974.

• Two Aussie radio legends: Ian MacRae and Bryan Vaughan in August 2018.

• Roy Barrett worked for two attempted forerunners to Radio Caroline. Neither made it on to the air but he has provided some fascinating memories of GBOK and the Voice of Slough.

• When The Beatles toured the USA and Canada in 1966, they took three offshore DJs with them to report to the fans back home.

• A very special beer, brewed to celebrate Radio Caroline's fortieth birthday, and another for Radio 390.

• A selection of books by offshore personalities or about pirate radio.

• A review of the book “Behind the Scenes at Radio Caroline (in the 1970s)” by Lyn Gilbert.

• The Radio Academy Celebration of Offshore Radio August 2007.

• Birthday greetings from the stars for Radio Caroline's first birthday ('Caroline In The Sixties' part four).

• Tony Blackburn celebrates 40 years behind the mic.

• Boss Radio & the Hallmark of Quality - seven pages of memories of Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio.

• Britain Radio & Swinging Radio England DJs gather to celebrate the station's fortieth anniversary.

• The Caroline Buoy-O-Boy, kindly provided by George Hare.

• The Radio Caroline launch press release issued by PR company Leslie Perrin Associates in March 1964. Kindly provided by Hans Knot.

• Caroline DJs get together to celebrate the station's fortieth birthday, 28th March 2004: parts one and two.

• Caroline DJs and staff get together to celebrate the station's 45th birthday, 28th March 2009.

• The modern-day incarnation of Radio Caroline throws a party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the station's launch, 8th March 2014.

• Events on Radio Caroline's 50th anniversary, 28th March 2014.

• Caroline DJs of the late seventies enjoy a reunion, June 2018.

• An interview with Caroline DJ Ric Jonns.

• Caroline's Class of '74 mini-reunion.

• Caroline North celebrated on the Isle Of Man.

• Caroline South DJs as fashion models.

• The night Caroline South was grounded ('Caroline In The Sixties' part five).

• Caroline South borrows a replacement ship, mv Cheeta II ('Caroline In The Sixties' part six).

• Caroline South's ship, back from repairs ('Caroline In The Sixties' part seven).

• Radio Caroline in the Sixties parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten.

• Radio Caroline in the Seventies parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven.

• Radio Caroline in the Eighties parts one, two and three. (NEW PAGE)

• The return of Radio Caroline. Press coverage of the 1983 launch from the mv Ross Revenge.

• “On board the bad ship Caroline.” An article from the London Evening News in 1978 with memories from Stewart Payne, the journalist who wrote the piece.

• Radio Caroline's Ross Revenge moves to a new home, 1st August 2014. Photos courtesy of Ray Clark.

• The Caroline Revival Hour of March 1969.

• Radio Caroline's mv Mi Amigo sinks. How the media reported the story, 20th/21st March 1980.

• Caroline Television - some press cuttings from 1970.

• Pictures from the Radio Caroline “restricted service license” broadcasts from Tilbury in 2004, parts one and two.

• A Radio Caroline commemorative stone unveiled in Felixstowe, September 2017.

• The Radio City (and Radio Sutch) story.

• Radio City's 50th birthday.

• Two plays about Reg and Dorothy Calvert of Radio City, written by their daughter Susan Moore.

• Radio City's chef remembers.

• Looking back at the raid on Radio City and its fatal consequences with the help of some of the people who were there at the time.

• Ray Clark interviews former offshore personnel: Mike Ahern, Tom Anderson, Nick Bailey, Terry Bate, Colin Berry, Peter Chicago, Carl Conway, Gordon Cruse, Robbie Dale, Martin Fisher, Keith Hampshire, Nigel Harris, Johnny Jason, Johnny Lewis, Mark Matthews, Ian MacRae, Peter Philips, Nick Richards, Dave Rogers, Bill Rollins, Emperor Rosko, Ian Ross, Keith Skues, Philip Solomon, Carl Thomson, Alan Turner, Kevin Turner and Graham Webb.

• Ray Clark's photos of a 1964 Radio Caroline accounts ledger.

• Ray Clark has kindly provided a Pop Pirates board game.

• A review of Ray Clark's autobiography.

• Colin Nicol interviews Radio Atlanta's Allan Crawford.

• Colin Nicol interviews Radio Atlanta and Radio Caroline's Ken Evans.

• Colin Nicol interviews Radio Atlanta's Richard Harris.

• The engineers who made it all happen during the sixties.

• Radio London's “Radio East Anglia” April Fool ('Radio London Story' part five).

• The Radio Essex Story.

• The Radio Essex 40th anniversary reunion boat trip, parts one, two, three and four. Photos kindly provided by a number of former Radio Essex DJs and engineers.

• The Radio Essex / BBMS DJs gather to mark the fortieth anniversary of the station closure.

• The Radio Essex / BBMS DJs gather again in November 2008.

• The Radio Essex / BBMS DJs gather to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the station launch.

• Former Radio Essex and Radio 270 DJ Guy Hamilton giving a talk about offshore radio to The Sandgate Society in Kent, April 2014.

• Goodbye Maurice Cole, Hello Kenny Everett.

• Kenny Everett tours America with The Beatles for Radio London, August 1966 ('Radio London Story' part four).

• Books about Kenny Everett.

• Unveiling a plaque and the launch of a book honouring Kenny Everett.

• Memories of the first offshore radio convention Flashback '67.

• Memories of the journey taken by the Caroline ship mv Fredericia to the Isle of Man in July 1964 ('Caroline In The Sixties' part three).

• Pirate BBC Essex Easter 2004.

• Pirate BBC Essex August 2007.

• Pirate BBC Essex Easter 2009.

• Martin Fokkens is searching for a Radio City programme from 1966 featuring an interview with the Dutch pop group Q65.

• Offshore radio historians Mervyn Hagger and Dr Eric Gilder have provided a timeline of the major developments in British broadcasting leading up to the arrival of offshore radio. Part one covers 1917-1959; part two covers 1960-63.

• Keith Hampshire is trying to identify a mystery colleague from 1966.

• Keith Hampshire meets up with some of his old Caroline colleagues - plus one from a rival ship.

• The Radio Invicta story.

• The brief reign of King Radio.

• The Laser story parts one and two.

• Laser DJ Erin Kelly is writing a book. Help her choose the cover.

• Two Laser-558 colleagues meet up to mark the station's 30th anniversary.

• “The Lid off the Pop Pirates”, a series of articles by Mike Raven published in The News of the World in October/November 1966, kindly provided by Colin Nicol and Wendy Haberl.

• The Radio London story parts one, two, three, four, five and six.

• Two former Radio London racing cars. We have photos. We also hear from the driver who raced the cars for Big L, Keith St.John.

• Photos of Radio London racing driver Keith St.John and his cars, plus one of DJ Mike Lennox, taken by Peter Cromer, George Smith, John Crick, Peter Mockler and Ken Smith.

• Radio London's Duncan Johnson celebrates his seventieth and seventy-fifth birthdays.

• Radio London DJs get together to celebrate the station's fortieth anniversary.

• Radio London DJs get together to celebrate the station's fiftieth anniversary.

• The Radio London DJs rescue an American pilot ('Radio London Story' part two).

• Five pages of photos from Offshore 50, the big pirate reunion of 14th August 2017.

• Eric Jay has sent us some photographs from Chris Warren's collection of the Shivering Sands anti-aircraft fort being built. This structure was later used for Radio Sutch and Radio City. Most of it is still standing in the Thames Estuary.

• The Radio Northsea International Story parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and nine.

• Radio Northsea International FM recordings.

• Brian Nichols reports on the pirate radio exhibition held in Felixstowe in August 2022.

• Photos from the Radio Days Conference, held at the Spa Pavilion in Felixstowe in August 2023.

• A few pictures from the Radio Day 2005 event in Amsterdam.

• Rather more extensive coverage of the Radio Day 2007 event in Amsterdam.

• Two pages of pictures from the Radio Day 2009 event in Amsterdam.

• Pictures from the Amsterdam Radio Day 2011.

• Pictures from the Amsterdam Radio Day 2014.

• Ben Healy reunited with some Radio Scotland ship-mates.

• Converting the Radio Scotland ship

• The Radio Scotland Story

• Timeline tracing the journey of Radio Scotland's ship in 1967.

• Radio Scotland honoured with a Civic Reception. Photos by Ian Biggar.

• The Spirit of the Seventies: for three days in July 2022 disc-jockeys who had worked on Radio Caroline in the 70s reunited to broadcast from the mv Ross Revenge. Stewart Payne and James Ross have sent us some wonderful photos of this memorable event.

• Photos from the second Spirit of the Seventies reunion broadcast, August 2024.

• Remembering Radio 270.

• Two Radio 270 reunions.

• The Radio 355 story.

• The Radio 390 story.

• A Radio 390 script from Graham Gill's archive, kindly passed on to us by Hans Knot.

• A brief video clip showing Radio 390, kindly provided by François Lhote and Chris Edwards of Offshore Echos magazine.

• The end of Radio 390.

• Derek Smith has sent us some photographs taken on a trip to Red Sands Fort, the former home of Radio 390, during the summer of 2003.

• A word from our sponsor - some sponsored shows from sixties offshore radio.

• A word from our sponsor 2 - Frobisher Collingwood.

• Hans Stieper has generously contributed a recording of a Kenny Everett report from the Beatles tour of the States and some other recordings salvaged from the Radio London ship while she was in Hamburg harbour after the end of her broadcasting career; plus some photos taken at the time.

• Sylvan the stowaway girl visits Radio Caroline South.

• A Thames boat trip in 2014 to two former radio forts.

• Kenny Tosh has contributed photos of the First North American Pirate Reunion, held in Vancouver in July 2004: parts one & two and Steve Young has sent this report.

• An interview with Tower Radio's Chris Gosling.

• Memories of Christmas and the New Year in international waters.

• Radio London's Willy Walker celebrates his birthday.

• Journalist Jacques-André Widmer remembers his brief career as a cook on Radio Caroline back in 1964.

Thanks to Roy, George, Martin, Mervyn, Eric, Keith, Luc, Ray, Susan, Colin, Susan, John, Wendy, Ed, Michael, Peter, Ken, George, John, Peter, Eric, Brian, Ben, Derek, Graham, Hans K and Hans S, François, Chris, Derek, Sylvan, Kenny, Jacques-André, Ian, Willy, Stewart, James and everyone else who has contributed.