March 20: After 16 years of tearing up the airwaves the bell finally appeared to toll for pirate station Radio Caroline. Disc jockeys had been pop picking for Caroline since 1964 and had used the good ...

A music fan has put the Sheerness RNLI in his will to thank rescuers for saving Radio Caroline DJs from the sinking Mi Amigo 40 years ago. Alan Watts was listening live when the drama unfolded in ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sometimes," remembers Dave Lee Travis, "when the weather was really rough, we had to attach an old two-shilling piece on to the arm ...

He said he was in the “why-not” business. And his Radio Caroline became the soundtrack of British and European youth in the 1960s. By Penelope Green It was on the Saturday before Easter 1964 that ...