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

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Earlier this year, former unlicensed station Radio Caroline
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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
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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
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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.
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