As Chris Evans broadcasts from a boat, visit the legendary 60s pirate radio station ship Caroline ⚓
Great songs, old songs, nostalgia and flashbacks; Rescue Me by Fontella Bass, Caroline by The Fortunes, San Francisco by Scott McKenzie. It was impossible not to feel happy.
Then there was the music — all the brand new releases you rarely heard on the wireless back when the BBC was the only station on the dial.Unable to get air time for his acts, he started his own station with two ships, MV Radio Caroline and MV Mi Amigo. The first record on the turntable on March 28, 1964, was Not Fade Away by the Rolling Stones.In March 1980, the Mi Amigo foundered in heavy seas.
Reluctantly the DJs abandoned ship, dramatically rescued by the RNLI lifeboat just before she went down.The station started transmitting from her replacement, the Ross Revenge in 1983.Eventually restored by dedicated volunteers, she now broadcasts from the Blackwater Estuary off West Mersea, Essex, where we caught the tender.The tour started with a coffee in the mess.
Peter Phillips, one of the Eighties DJs, gave us an introduction and patiently answered questions he must have heard before — who was Radio Caroline named after? ; was life on radio ships like the movie The Boat That Rocked? .It was a fascinating tour of this station on the last pirate radio ship in the world, with a live show broadcastingThere’s a fair amount of clambering about to do so you need to be reasonably mobile.
Down in the hold, my husband, a radio frequency engineer, was excited to see the powerful 50kW RCA transmitter .It was interesting to see the old studio with its dated equipment and compare it to the new one next door. Everything’s digital now, the DJ made it all look so simple as he broadcast his live show.
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