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Looking for long lost pirate friends?
Or just want to say hello?
Visit the draughty phone box, and
leave a message.
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 Widescreen
PAL • 65 minutes
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This
DVD documentary tells the story of the landbased “pirate”
radio stations that took over when the popular offshore stations
were forced to close.
See and hear again some of the top stations like Radio Jackie,
Radio Kaleidoscope, Invicta and Skyline – and meet the people
who made them happen all those years ago. The documentary contains
early video footage of some of the stations as well as recent
interviews with their operators .
£13.25 + shipping from http://rcsocietysales.co.uk/video.html
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March 18th 2008
New downloads:
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17MB
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36:27 |
Radio
Sheila - Taking a break from RFL, the crew were busy on Medium Wave. Kenny Myers from 26th May 1974 |
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14MB
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29:36 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - more from the Big K
Music Week archive from April 27th 1975
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14MB |
30:51 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - continuing our delve into the Music Week archives, this is from May 18th 1975 |
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25MB |
54:28 |
Radio
Free England - We think the DJ is calling himself Pete Dryden. Recorded on 25th December 1977 |
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28MB |
61:39 |
Radio
Jackie - Dave Adams kicks off the weekly Sunday broadcast on June 1st 1980 |
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44MB |
85:51 |
Radio
Invicta - Tony Johns keeps the faith and pumps out the soul. From April 1981 |
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25MB
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95:22 |
Thameside
Radio - a
rare day-time broadcast from the popular station on Easter Monday 1982 |
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45MB
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98:38 |
Thameside
Radio - Paul
James and The Intrepid Birdman from November 21st 1982. Interestingly Paul
refers to a news item about Radio 1 planning to broadcast past 7pm on
Sundays. |
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January 27th 2008
New downloads:
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21MB
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44:51
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Radio
Jackie - Brain Anthony from Boxing Day 1974 on 227 |
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13MB |
29:23 |
Sun
Radio - Kenny Myers with a show from March 29th 1975 |
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27MB |
59:38 |
Thameside
Radio - Thameside
was hit heavily by Eric Gotts & co. towards the end of 1981. As a result they curtailed this broadcast prematurely
(rather unconvincingly). From October 1981 - originally broadcast in mono |
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14MB |
30:21 |
Radio
Alpine - Mike Stand on this daily Merseyside station from December 4th 1981
- Part 1 of 2 |
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14MB
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30:39
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Part
2 of the above recording |
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36MB
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78:25
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Radio
Shoestring - this is an excerpt from their final day's broadcasting,
believed to be from July 1984. With Christopher England |
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22MB
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47:10
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Q102
- Bob Matthews and Don L Johnson on the great late 80s station. April
1st 1989 - Part 1 of 2 |
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22MB
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47:01
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Part
2 of the above recording |
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December 24th 2007
Sorry it's been a while. Happy Christmas - enjoy this lot!
New downloads:
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29MB |
62:42 |
LMR
- Mark Ellis with a programme from Christmas Day 1974 |
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12MB
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25:42 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - more from the Music Week
programme. 20th April 1975 - includes
contemporary news about Radio Caroline and the Mebo II |
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27MB |
59:25 |
Radio
Telstar South - Dave Reading on Christmas Day 1977 |
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45MB
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98:56 |
Radio
Free London - Mark Ashton and Andy Allman from November 1980 |
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26MB
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57:42
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Radio
Elenore - Robin Blinde on this Merseyside pirate in December 1980. Robin went
on to become Robin Ross on Radio Caroline. |
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27MB
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59:19
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Santa
Sounds - Paul James with a Christmas Day programme from 1981 |
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28MB
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60:05 |
Radio
Floss - Part
1 of 4 Hours of the MW station with Ian Stewart, Paul James and Nick
Johnson from early February 1981 |
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28MB
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60:37 |
Radio
Floss - Part
2 of 4 hours - Steve Jay from early February 1981 |
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28MB
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59:36 |
Radio
Floss - Part
3 of 4 hours - Andy Richards from early February 1981 |
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27MB
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59:36 |
Radio
Floss - Part
4 of 4 hours - Glen Johnson early February 1981 |
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September 9th 2007
New downloads:
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27MB
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59:04 |
Radio
Tracy - Jackie's Mike Knight on 28th July 1973 |
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8.9MB |
19:24 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - the news section from the Music Week programme of 13th April
1975. Taken from studio master tapes |
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25MB
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54:50 |
Radio
Jackie - Jackie was off-air for much of 1975 but returned in the summer. Andy
Belmont with a show from September 1975 |
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21MB |
46:13 |
Radio
Jackie - Richard Jackson on Christmas day 1976 |
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24MB |
60:15 |
Radio
Jackie - Mike
Knight with more of the broadcast on Christmas day 1976 |
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27MB |
59:39 |
Thameside
Radio - Bob
and the gang celebrate 6 months of trouble free broadcasting in June 1978 |
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45MB |
98:43 |
Radio
Invicta - Steve Marshall, fresh from 6 months on the Peace Ship, runs down
a
Soul Poll from November 1980 |
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7.8MB |
16:57 |
Thameside
Radio - For
the 5th birthday Thameside engineer Ian Stewart produced 5 history
programmes. This one covers Thameside's first year. December 1982 |
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32MB |
70:49 |
Skyline
Radio - Mark Ashton on the commercially successful station. July 3rd
1984 |
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July 25th 2007
New downloads:
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22MB
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47:24
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Radio
AMY - Part of the Community Chest programme from May 1978
including a report on one of the farcical IBA 'open forums' which Capital
Radio and LBC were required to hold in order to fulfill their licence
agreement |
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21MB
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45:00 |
Thameside
Radio - The first 90 mins of the broadcast from March 16th 1980. Part
1 of this recording |
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22MB
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46:40 |
Part
2 of of the above recording |
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22MB
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47:25 |
County
Radio - Mark
Ellis & Dave Small from December 19th 1982 |
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July 12th 2007
Note: The recording we had of Music
Radio 270 was incorrectly marked as Radio 270 - This has now been re-named
and the station page has been updated.
New downloads:
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27MB
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58:09 |
Sounds
of London - Steve Rogers with a programme believed to
date from spring 1971 |
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57MB
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122:05
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South
London Sounds - 2 hours of rock with Ken Myers. We think this station broadcast in the
late 80s or early 90s |
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June 25th 2007
New downloads:
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17MB
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36:09 |
Radio London Underground -
In 1972 the BBC celebrated 50 Years of Broadcasting. RLU adds another
dimension to that event with this highly unusual broadcast thought to be from
mid November 1972. |
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12MB
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25:10 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - Denny Tewson returned to the Big K in 1975, but for some reason decided
to change his name to Barry Martin. 9th November 1975 |
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25MB
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57:54 |
Radio
Telstar South - Mark Ashton with a complete broadcast from Easter
Sunday 1977 |
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29MB
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62:44 |
Thameside
Radio - Still
going strong, in spite of being No.1 target for Mr Gotts & co. at that
time. Bob Edwards from August 8th 1982 |
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June 10th 2007
New downloads:
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27MB
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56:33 |
Sun
Radio - Chris Trent with a programme from the VHF station. 9th August
1975 |
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4.2MB |
4:26 |
Sun
Radio - an
undated recording of the station opening |
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28MB
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60:02 |
Radio
Invicta - Mark Ellis with his first (and possibly only) show on the original soul
pirate. 26th December 1975 |
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13M
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29:16 |
London
Music Radio - Cliff Osbourne with part of a Christmas Day broadcast on the original LMR in 1976. Recorded off FM
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87MB
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191:05 |
Thameside
Radio - 3
hours of the audacious 3rd birthday party from 7th December 1980. The
authorities were obviously humiliated by this broadcast and they raided
Thameside the following week. This raid marked the end of the infamous
Trellick Tower installation after 9 months of broadcasting. |
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21MB
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44:19
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JFM
- Tony Townrow on the breakfast show from around November
1984 - Part 1 of 2 |
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21MB |
44:16 |
Part
2 of the above recording |
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57MB |
121:58 |
Clockwork
Wireless - More
from Terry Anderson and The Intrepid Birdman. A Complete 2 hour
broadcast from 20th September 1987 |
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April 23rd 2007
New downloads:
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13MB
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28:07 |
Uptown
Radio - Part
of a Terry Anderson programme from February 1979 |
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21MB
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44:19 |
Uptown
Radio - Probably
a continuation of the above broadcast with Robin (Topper) Lindsey |
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28MB
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61:47 |
London
Music Radio - Part 1 of 2 - Not the original station of that name, but a Thameside inspired station
of the early eighties. With Chris Miles from the 24th April 1982
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28MB |
61:26 |
London
Music Radio -
Part 2 of 2 - continuation
of the above broadcast |
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April 1st 2007
New downloads:
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26MB
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62:23
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Skyport
Radio Part
1 of 2 - Bob Earl with a special 2 hour programme before he temporarily
left the station to go to college in October 1977. Also features Mark King |
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25MB
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62:04
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Skyport
Radio Part
2 of 2 - conclusion of the programme above |
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44MB
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92:53
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Surrey
Sounds Part 1 of 2 - Rob James kicks off the broadcast on 5th February
1983 |
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44MB
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93:21
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Surrey
Sounds Part 2 of 2 - Martin
Hill continues the above broadcast |
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March 25th 2007
New downloads:
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17MB
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41:59
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Radio
Nelson - Henry Morgan on the West London MW station from around
November 1971 |
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28MB |
60:39 |
Radio
Kaleidoscope - Tony Rocket with a show from 12th January 1975 |
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29MB
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60:59 |
Uptown
Radio - Part
1 of 2 - Terry Anderson on Christmas eve 1978 |
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29MB
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61:36 |
Uptown
Radio - Part
2 of 2 - Robin Lindsey concludes the Christmas Eve broadcast in 1978 |
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15MB
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31:23
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Radio
Corina International - Tony
Rogers on FM in East London and to Europe on Short Wave. 25th August 1980 |
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15MB
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31:15
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Radio
Corina International -Richard
Hunter & Tony Rogers on FM & SW on December 25th 1980 |
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44MB
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94:50
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Radio
Suburbia - Martin Lewis & Gerry Sinclair from October 23rd 1982 |
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45MB |
95:01 |
Radio
Alpha - Phil James and Gary Huges on November 8th 1982 |
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8MB |
17:43 |
Radio
Phoenix - unknown DJ probably from the end of March 1983 |
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February 2nd 2007
Last month the amount of downloads from this site
exceeded our monthly limit of 20GB! Apologies for the break in service, we're
back and there are some new files to download too.
New downloads:
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20MB
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49:37
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Radio
Free London North - Jason Woolfe on Boxing Day 1968 assisted by Bud
Balloo, Stephen Warwick, Patacake Warwick and Robin Adcroft. Taken from
the original 1/4" studio tape (the drop-out is a result of the age of
this recording). |
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55MB
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119:09 |
RFM
- 2 Hours of rock with Kenny Myers with a programme from 29th December
1989 |
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January 13th 2007
New downloads:
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27MB
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57:19
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Radio
Telstar South - a
complete 1 hour broadcast with Dave Reading from 2nd January 1977 |
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13MB
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28:12 |
Bromley
Sound - more from this station from 22nd June 1980 |
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22MB
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46:38 |
Skyline
Radio - Tony Townrow with the breakfast show from early 1985
- Part 1 |
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22MB
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45:59 |
Part
2 of the above recording |
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January 6th 2007
New downloads:
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86MB
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187:22
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Uptown
Radio - a
complete 3 hour broadcast from Spring 1981 with Terry Anderson, Bob Earl
and Topper Lindsey |
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December 30th 2006
New downloads:
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28MB
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60:54
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Radio
Jackie - Dickie Allen with a recording from 1975 |
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28MB
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61:18 |
Victory FM - Two
Hours of Mark Ashton possibly from as late as December 1991? - Part 1 |
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28MB
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61:10 |
part
2 of the above recording |
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December 23rd 2006
New downloads:
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84MB
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184:16
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Thameside
Radio - an
almost complete 3 hour broadcast from Spring 1980 with Bob Edwards and The
Intrepid Birdmant |
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December 18th 2006
New downloads:
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42MB
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92:25
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Trans-London
Radio - Alan
Ford, Michael Martin & Kid Johnson on a Bank Holiday broadcast |
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44MB
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95:01 |
County
Radio - One of the many Radio Jackie breakaway stations. Steve Fox and Mark
Ellis from November 22nd 1982 |
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December 10th 2006
New downloads:
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26MB
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45:50
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Radio
Jackie - Nicky Marshall with a show from Christmas 1976 |
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56MB
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122:43 |
Clockwork
Wireless - Terry Anderson & Aleks Wright who is filling in for Birdman. July
19th 1987 |
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December 2nd 2006
New downloads:
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21MB
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45:50
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Radio
London Underground - Peter Allen with a
complete (though rather short) broadcast which, by the reference to Apollo
17, dates from early December 1972 |
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21MB
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45:44 |
Radio Invicta - Tony Johns playing his
favourite oldies on Britain's original soul station. 24th
August 1975 |
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40MB |
86:47 |
London FM - The beginning of a Bank Holiday broadcast with Mark Ellis. The fault
in the audio was caused by the Band III link transmitter's PLL losing
lock. We have edited out about 12 minutes of un-listenable audio as a
result. 4th May 1981
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November 24th 2006
New downloads:
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6.1MB |
13:21 |
City
Sounds - a short clip with Abie Cohen and an interesting selection of music from
November 9th 1975 |
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22MB |
46:20 |
Radio
Jackie North -
Merseyside's rock station with Rick Dane from their first year (1977).
Sadly Rick passed away in November 2002 |
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28MB |
58:43 |
Radio
Telstar South - Dave
Reading with a broadcast featuring 1950s music from February 26th 1977 |
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28MB |
58:59 | | 
