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Coming to a Cinema Near You - Offshore RadioTwo feature films about offshore radio are in the pipeline. Tightrope Pictures is making 'The Boat That Rocked', a comedy about a fictional Sixties radio station, for Richard Curtis's production company Working Title. Richard attended the Radio Academy Celebration of Offshore Radio last year, with his wife Emma Freud and the film's producer Hilary Bevan Jones, to get a feel for what life was really like aboard the radio ships. The ship Sealink Challenger is starring as the floating radio station - although she is a little young for the job, having been built in 1964. Rhys Ifans, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Nighy are co-stars. Unfortunately, many reports are claiming that 'The Boat That Rocked' is about Radio Caroline and some are claiming it is set in the Seventies, which is incorrect on both counts! Producer Hilary Bevan Jones says, "It's intended as a comedy film and not based on any particular person or radio station, but it is set in that particular moment in time. Obviously, we will be wanting it to have a certain veracity." The second film, also set in the Sixties, is called 'Radio Caroline'. The plot centres on Caroline and her fight to remain on the air, but features fictional characters. Ironically (or perhaps deliberately) the surname of the two leads is Cashman! Producer Saskia Vischer also attended the Radio Academy Celebration of Offshore Radio, with Peter Moore. The screenplay is by Kara Kidman, with Ian Neil as Music Supervisor. The Radio Caroline Creative Vision brochure says: The Creative Vision brochure does not specify if the screenplay is based around the South or the North ship. http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/kneesflashes/happenings/ Source: RadioLondon Mike Terry
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