Radio 1, the BBC’s pop music station, began broadcasting on 31 August 1967, with Tony Blackburn spinning Flowers In The Rain by The Move. The…

The 1960s pirate radio phenomenon was founded on a simple loophole and a cunning understanding of maritime law. If a ship was moored three or…

Radio Luxembourg began broadcasting in 1933 and was the earliest commercial radio station that could be heard in the UK, thanks to its transmission on…

In November 1964 a 780-ton former WWII minesweeper named MV Galaxy anchored three-and-a-half miles off the Essex coast and became home to Radio London – “Big…

The first British pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, was founded by Ronan O’Rahilly in 1964 – he chose the name of the station in honour of…

When the transistor replaced the bulky and unreliable vacuum tube in amplification units, transistors did the job better and were much smaller, making it possible…

1 9 3 9 – 1 9 9 5 With the on-air cool of Alan Freed and the smokestack growl of Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Weston Smith – a…

Fred Dagg was actually New Zealand-born comedian and political satirist John Clarke, who appeared as Dagg on television always wearing a black singlet and gumboots.…

In Britain, Radio 1 and Top of the Pops began in the Sixties, but by 1970 the Disc Jockeys (or DJ’s) had been elevated to stardom, and…

James Robinson ‘Jimmy’ Clitheroe died on 6 June 1973 (the day of his mother’s funeral). A coronial inquest found that his death was due to…

In late 1974, Gough Whitlam’s Australian Labor government allocated a new AM radio license to the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) for a “youth-style” radio station…