{"id":8993,"date":"2023-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?p=8993"},"modified":"2023-09-17T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T15:30:38","slug":"drivetime-on-sunshine-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/drivetime-on-sunshine-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivetime on Sunshine Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2252\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8993-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.mp3\">https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.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\/2023\/09\/19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/?powerpress_pinw=8993-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"19830824_Sunshine_Radio_101fm_1917-1947_SK.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Drivetime on Sunshine Radio\" class=\"wp-image-1513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sunshine-badge.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Sunshine Radio badge (photo by Brian Greene). <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This recording of Sunshine Radio from the autumn of 1983 features the final part of the drivetime show <em>Sunshine in the Afternoon<\/em> with Paul Kavanagh. It begins with a music sweep followed by a super-set from the Hollies. <em>Solar Energy<\/em> with David Dennehy is to follow after the news at 8pm. Despite Sunshine&#8217;s commercial success, it is interesting to note that there is no commercial break in the half-hour recording. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tape was made on 24<sup>th<\/sup> August 1983 between 1917 and 1947 from either 100.5 or 101.5 FM (only the announced frequency of 101 FM is mentioned on the label). It is from the Skywave Tapes Collection. Radio Skywave International was a 1980s shortwave station broadcasting from Baldoyle in northeast Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Sunshine Radio from the autumn of 1983 features the final part of the drivetime show Sunshine in the Afternoon with Paul Kavanagh. It begins with a music sweep followed by a super-set from the Hollies. Solar Energy with David Dennehy is to follow after the news at 8pm. Despite Sunshine&#8217;s commercial success, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pirate.ie\/archive\/drivetime-on-sunshine-radio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drivetime on Sunshine Radio&#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":[152],"tags":[501,153,672,545,47],"class_list":["post-8993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-recordings","tag-501","tag-dublin","tag-paul-kavanagh","tag-skywave-collection","tag-sunshine-radio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Drivetime on Sunshine Radio - 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\/drivetime-on-sunshine-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Drivetime on Sunshine Radio - Irish Pirate Radio Audio Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This recording of Sunshine Radio from the autumn of 1983 features the final part of the drivetime show Sunshine in the Afternoon with Paul Kavanagh. 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