New offshore radio documentary

During April, all the UK radio stations owned by the GMG group are carrying a two-part documentary called When Pirates Ruled The Airwaves.

It is presented by Bill Nighy, star of The Boat That Rocked and includes contributions from Tony Prince, Tony Blackburn, Charlie Wolf, Johnnie Walker, Dick Palmer, Roger Day and Paul Burnett among others.

Part 1 concentrates on the birth of the offshore stations up until about 1966 while part 2 talks about 67, into the seventies, eighties and beyond.

The six Smooth Radio stations, Real Radio Yorkshire and Real Radio Wales will transmit the programmes at 1pm on Saturdays 4th and 11th April. They will run on Real Radio Scotland, Real Radio NW and Real Radio NE on Sundays 5th and 12th April at 5pm and on Rock Radio at 1pm on Sundays 5th and 12th April.

From The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame web site http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/

Our thanks to Mike Terry in Bournemouth for alerting us to this item