{"id":3882,"date":"2021-04-10T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2021-04-10T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T07:52:33","slug":"london-pirate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/london-pirate-history\/","title":{"rendered":"London pirate radio history and recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1708\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3882-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hebditch-edit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hebditch-edit.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hebditch-edit.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\/2021\/04\/Hebditch-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=3882-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Hebditch-edit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Hebditch-edit.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/London-pirates-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"London pirate radio history and recordings\" class=\"wp-image-3883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/London-pirates-portrait.jpg 535w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/London-pirates-portrait-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><figcaption>Stephen Hebditch&#8217;s book is available from Amazon and independent booksellers. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>London has been a hotbed of pirate radio since the 1960s and has always had a strong connection with Ireland through emigration and cultural influences. The thousands of pirate stations in London across the decades have been documented on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amfm.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AMFM.org.uk<\/a> and in the book <em>London&#8217;s Pirate Pioneers<\/em> (2015) by the site&#8217;s founder Stephen Hebditch. Recordings of the London pirates are posted regularly on the site&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amfmldn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview with John Walsh, Stephen explores the background to and growth of London pirate radio and includes audio clips from different eras and genres of stations. He also explains the book project and covers the relationship between London pirate radio and the Irish pirate scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This interview was broadcast originally on <a href=\"http:\/\/wirelessflirt.radio.ie\/2021\/04\/05\/programme-51-april-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wireless on Flirt FM<\/a> in April 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London has been a hotbed of pirate radio since the 1960s and has always had a strong connection with Ireland through emigration and cultural influences. The thousands of pirate stations in London across the decades have been documented on the website AMFM.org.uk and in the book London&#8217;s Pirate Pioneers (2015) by the site&#8217;s founder Stephen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/london-pirate-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;London pirate radio history and recordings&#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":[14],"tags":[133,235,484],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interview","tag-history","tag-london-pirates","tag-stephen-hebditch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>London pirate radio history and recordings - 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\/london-pirate-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"London pirate radio history and recordings - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"London has been a hotbed of pirate radio since the 1960s and has always had a strong connection with Ireland through emigration and cultural influences. 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