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Offshore Radio Against The Beatles Phenomenon

In the early 1960s, an event would occur that would change the sound of British radio forever – the growth of ‘pirate’ radio stations from overseas.

Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive

Pirate.ie is a free and open archive and comprises historical recordings and oral history interviews. Their aim is to build a sustainable audio archive of…

How Radio Hauraki Really Got Its Name

Jan Earwaker I remember it well – that Friday night in 1965. I had been working late and my (then) fiancé Chris Parkinson, and our…

Voice of Peace – Mediterranean Radio Memories

STEPHEN OLIVER Looking back now upon the near vanished “frequency” of my youth; through filtered static, “The Voice of Peace” radio ship hauls into view,…

South Australia’s Pirate Radio PROSH ‘Piracy on the Airwaves’

By Stephen Atkinson. Forty-one years ago, in the early hours of Sunday July 31, 1966, Ernie Sigley, irreverent host of NWS 9’s Adelaide Tonight, was…