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 ...

The U.K. has a long and lasting history of pirate radio stations. These are stations that were set up on ships and broadcast from international waters. The BBC had a monopoly on the airwaves in the ...

In the 1960s, if you were a teenager in the United States, a big part of your life was probably music. There was a seemingly endless supply of both radio stations and 45s to keep you entertained. In ...

Review of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age, by Adrian Johns, W.W. Norton & Company, 2011, ISBN-10: 0393068609, $26.95, 279 pages. In last year’s The Master Switch ...

Legendary former BBC and pirate radio broadcaster Tom Edwards has passed away. Edwards, 80, died October 25 in a Lincoln ...

Fans of pirate radio and 60s nostalgia are in for a rare treat as an historic vessel is transformed into a floating radio ship. The Waverley will stream its first live pirate-style broadcast since ...

LONDON — In 1993, the illegal radio broadcasters at Kool FM came up with a plan to keep the regulators from raiding their studios. In those days, the rooftops of South and East London still bristled ...