{"id":11781,"date":"2026-11-06T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2026-11-04T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:16:39","slug":"radio-west-anoraks-show-6th-july-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-anoraks-show-6th-july-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio West Anoraks&#8217; Show (6th July 1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7942\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8156AI-B-192.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8156AI-B-192.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8156AI-B-192.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8156AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=11781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/8156AI-B-192.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"8156AI-B-192.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg\" alt=\"Radio West Anoraks&#039; Show (6th July 1986)\" class=\"wp-image-5236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-1024x445.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ireland_mullingar_west_compliments_2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Radio West stationery from the 765 kHz era (courtesy DX Archive). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This recording of the weekly Radio West Anoraks&#8217; Show from summer 1986 includes legendary broadcaster Bob Gallico (RIP) as a guest in studio with station boss Shaun Coyne and Phil Hilton. Bob talks about his love for radio since his youth in the US and explains how he landed a job reading news with Radio Nova in Dublin. The panel discusses the evolution of the pirate scene in recent years and speculates about its future. There is also discussion of Dublin station Q102, to which Bob has recently moved. Other stations mentioned are WLCB in Wicklow, new Dundalk station CLR, ERI and WBEN in Cork, Capitol-Nitesky 96, Liberties Radio, KISS FM and Energy 103 in Dublin, Zee 104 in Kildare, Kandy Radio in Ballinasloe and Radio Rainbow International in Louth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tape was made from 765 kHz between 1122-1200 (with a few edits) on Sunday 6<sup>th<\/sup> July 1986 and is from the Anoraks Ireland Collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of the weekly Radio West Anoraks&#8217; Show from summer 1986 includes legendary broadcaster Bob Gallico (RIP) as a guest in studio with station boss Shaun Coyne and Phil Hilton. Bob talks about his love for radio since his youth in the US and explains how he landed a job reading news with Radio &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-anoraks-show-6th-july-1986\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radio West Anoraks&#8217; Show (6th July 1986)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,152],"tags":[536,564,563,71,380,303],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airchecks","category-full-recordings","tag-536","tag-anoraks-ireland-collection","tag-philip-hilton","tag-radio-west","tag-shaun-coyne","tag-westmeath"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Radio West Anoraks&#039; Show (6th July 1986) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/radio-west-anoraks-show-6th-july-1986\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Radio West Anoraks&#039; Show (6th July 1986) - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of the weekly Radio West Anoraks&#8217; Show from summer 1986 includes legendary broadcaster Bob Gallico (RIP) as a guest in studio with station boss Shaun Coyne and Phil Hilton. 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