"When you tell people it is factual, you say, no, that surely didn't happen.”
ByTom Rivers
May 18, 2024, 4:04 AM
LONDON -- As the old adage goes: “Always be yourself. Unless you can be a pirate. Then always be a pirate.”
That certainly applies to the small, but special circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the United Kingdom who have kept the rogue seaborne radio station, Radio Caroline, afloat now for the past 60 long years.
Over that time span, it’s been a fascinating tale of trials and tribulations just to keep the renegade broadcaster on the air and running for as long as it has.
The story begins in 1964, when a maverick Irish businessman by the name of Ronan O'Rahilly decided to break the BBC monopoly and set-up a station on a ship in international waters off the English coast.
Additional story from ABC News
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