<html><head><base href="x-msg://14/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I found it an interesting perspective (and reasonably accurate as far as I know) on what was happening at the time in parallel to what I knew and was involved in - campaigning for CR licences to be made available. Living just outside London I was very aware of these London based pirates as I could hear many of them particularly at weekends when they assumed that the DTI staff would not be working. It did perhaps play down some of the violence on both sides involved in the "raids" when RIS staff shut down stations - I remember seeing photos and videos of this.<div><br></div><div>As this programme concentrated on the black urban music pirates in London it didn't mention the other pirates - Radio Jackie comes to mind- in London or those in other cities like Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol. I thought it did cover quite well the divide between those who wanted to promote and celebrate their particular music and those who saw a significant business opportunity.</div><div><br></div><div>Mainly it made me think back over the long period of joining others with similar visions of CR across the country and campaigning to make it real. Now so many of us are living the dream by being involved in running our own local radio stations of all kinds working with hundreds of local people and having fun (as well as getting tired out!)</div><div><br></div><div>So, for me, a fascinating "history" documentary - and with some very familiar faces too!</div><div><br></div><div>Clive Glover</div><div><br><div><div>On 2 Oct 2017, at 18:52, Julian Swift-Hook | Kennet Radio wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Well, as one who grew up through that period in a white middle-class provincial town, I found it eye-opening …. What were the inaccuracies?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Julian<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Phonic FM<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>02 October 2017 13:41<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Community Media Association Discussion List <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cma-l] BBC Four, Friday 29th September at 9pm, 'The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs'<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">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.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">On 29 September 2017 at 17:23, CMA-L <<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1pt; padding-top: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm; "><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">Earlier this year, former unlicensed station </span><a href="http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=4a01ffba06&e=e98e4849be" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 170, 223); ">Radio Caroline</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "> 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 </span><a href="http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=e871646505&e=e98e4849be" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 170, 223); ">Marine Broadcasting Offences Act</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "> came into force to stop unlicensed stations such as Radio Caroline from broadcasting.</span><o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 18pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 18pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; line-height: 18pt; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); ">A fascinating documentary charting this cultural phenomenon will air on BBC Four on <strong><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Friday 29th September at 9pm</span></strong> (available on iPlayer later). '<a href="http://commedia.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bed04ea0491d68a4181ec7b70&id=c298264bc1&e=e98e4849be" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(43, 170, 223); ">The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs</span></a>' 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Reply -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br>Twitter:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mailing list guidelines:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<br><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a><o:p></o:p></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br><br>Reply -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br>Twitter:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mailing list guidelines:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<br><a href="http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>