
UPDATED JULY 2009What's new? Last month we heard from Colin Dale, one of the original DJs on Radio Sutch. This month he has kindly written a fascinating account of his time with the station; we have added another page to the steadily expanding Seventies Supplement. This time we look at offshore broadcasters from that decade whose names began with the letter L, including RNI's Arnold Layne and Michael Lindsey and Caroline's Mark Lawrence; and two Britain Radio colleagues are reunited after a gap of 42 years. See the contents page and DJ Directories of the sixties and seventies for a full index of the site.
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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.
There are other web-sites which tell the stories of the various offshore stations but
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