[cma-l] BBC Four, Friday 29th September at 9pm, 'The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs'

[Phonic FM]

Not that fascinating or even very accurate. painted a very BBC view of what
was happening, as well as being very London centric. Could have been good,
but was pretty average.

On 29 September 2017 at 17:23, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> Earlier this year, former unlicensed station Radio Caroline
> <http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=4a01ffba06&e=e98e4849be> was
> awarded its first AM broadcast licence in 50 years allowing the former
> ship-based station to broadcast to Suffolk and parts of north Essex. In
> 1967 the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act
> <http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=e871646505&e=e98e4849be> came
> into force to stop unlicensed stations such as Radio Caroline from
> broadcasting.
>
> Fast forward to the 1980s and a new generation of pirate radio stations
> exploded on to Britain's FM airwaves. Unlike their seafaring 60s
> forerunners, these pirate radio stations broadcast from estates and tower
> blocks in London, Birmingham and other cities to create a platform for
> black music in an era when it was largely ignored by the mainstream music
> industry.
>
> For over a decade, these 'rebel' DJs used legal loopholes and technical
> know-how to forge a cultural movement bringing Britain's first
> multicultural generation together under the banner of black music and club
> culture.
>
> A fascinating documentary charting this cultural phenomenon will air on
> BBC Four on *Friday 29th September at 9pm* (available on iPlayer later). 'The
> Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs
> <http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=c298264bc1&e=e98e4849be>'
> celebrates a different side of Thatcher's Britain in a time
> of entrepreneurialism and social upheaval and tells the untold story of how
> that generation of pirate radio broadcasters changed the soundtrack of
> modern Britain forever.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Reply - cma-l at commedia.org.uk
>
> The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community
> Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media
> http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
> Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/
> _______________________________________________
>
> Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/
> about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/
> _______________________________________________
>
> To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:
> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/cma-l/attachments/20171002/e48ebab8/attachment.html>