The Radio Caroline Story 1964-1984

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Release Date: 1984

Label: Jumbo Records & Tapes

Special Collectors Edition. Numbered. Limited to 1000 copies.

This is an extract of the booklet:

The Radio Caroline Story 1964-1984

This album set traces the fascinating story of the life of Radio Caroline.

Few of us can imagine a period in our lives when we were not surrounded, if not inundated with local radio, offshore pirate stations, BBC national and local networks, and more recently land based pirate stations. This story starts in 1963 when a total of about 2 hours a week was given to popular music on the BBC networks. AIl day pop music just did not exist. Although Radio Luxembourg beamed Record Company Shows to the UK in the evenings, it was Ronan O'Rahilly who had the foresight to see the need for all day popular music entertainment.

The Radio Caroline Story is not just the story of a radio station, but a story which forced change for the whole UK radio industry.

Sound Archive recordings:
Ray Anderson, Buster, Ray Clark, Carl Conway,
Robbie Dale, Chris Edwards, Glen Fraser, Maurice Hawkins, Bill Rollins, Hans Steiper.

Photographic Archive:
Ray Anderson, Andy Archer, Theo Dencker, Albert Hood, Jay Jackson, Steve Kent, Dave Kindred, Martin G Stevens, Graham Taylor.

Additional thanks ta:

Alfasound Tapetrix, John Burch, The Caroline Movement, CPMG, Theo Dencker, Dave Kindred, Monitor Magflzine, Alan Porter, RNLI and of course The Caroline Family.

With a special thanks to Ronan O'Rahilly for making this fascinating chapter of Radio Broadcasting history possible.

Narrated by Andy Archer
Graphics: Paul Warren
Production facilities: East Anglian Productions
Produced and edited by: Bill Rollins
Executive Producer: Ray Anderson