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Pirate Radio: Britain’s AM rebels of the ’60s

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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The British Broadcasting Corporation

In the early 19 sixties, there was no such thing as commercial radio in the u k. Enter ronan o'riley, grandson of a revolutionary who died fighting for irish independence. He convinced his father to put their money behind a vision: buy a ship and anchor it over three miles off the coast of england. Their signal cod reach millions of people at they'd be technically outside british territorial limits. The law couldn't touch them. To day you'll hear from ten of these former pirate radio tjs.

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