Found – a lost tape from 47 years ago! Excerpts from an original Archive Tape recorded in 1967 – Home Service in the Midlands. This is an original 1967 recording of a BBC documentary about the Pirate Radio Stations made for The BBC Home Service in the Midlands. The programme chronicles the closure of the pirates as a result of the introduction by the Government of the 1967 Marine Broadcasting Offences Act.
The programme is recorded at 7.5 inches per second on an EMI 1/4 inch tape and is MONO in Two-track format. On a 7 inch reel and programme plays for 30 mins approx. Clips from Pirate Radio Stations (off air) including Radio London, Caroline, Essex, Radio 390, Radio 355, Swinging Radio England, Radio City. Britain Radio, etc.
Features BBC announcer Victor Hallam and many famous voices from the pirate radio days – Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett, Tony Windsor, Paul Kaye, Keith Skues, etc. Also Sequence of News broadcasts. Playback via a Studer Revox PR99
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