But the new book, “Radio Caroline: Voices on the Air” does something rather different from previous volumes: It documents the roughly 600 DJ voices that have been heard on Caroline since its oceanic ...

Rusting and forlorn at Tilbury Docks, she is now – like her famous old boys Tony Blackburn and Johnnie Walker – somewhat past her prime.

Shrewdly, the BBC also employed many of the one-time pirate DJs who had helped to make Radio Caroline a success. They included Blackburn, who became the first to broadcast on Radio 1.

The real-life Radio Caroline resembled Radio Rock in having two-berth cabins for the DJs, but had no bar or entertainment area. "It had a mess hall, with tables bolted to the floor, nothing too ...

According to Walker, Radio Caroline was supplied by another boat which motored the 1 1/2 hours from England’s Port of Harwich every day with letters, records, food -- and DJs, who were either ...

Caroline began broadcasting on Easter Sunday, 1964, from a ship near the Cork Anchorage, and has always held a place in the hearts of radio fans for its pioneering and rebellious spirit.

A circle of swashbuckling radio enthusiasts in the United Kingdom who have kept the rogue seaborne radio station, Radio Caroline, afloat now for the past 60 long years.

Radio Caroline launched 50 years ago from a ship moored off the Essex coast. But while much is known of the DJs who became household names, what of the man who put the station on air?

Back in 1966 I was a DJ on both Radio Caroline North and South in Great Britan, having been the South Ships Programme controller, the embarresment occured when I was describing a wedding on the North ...

Former BBC Radio 2 DJ and UK Eurovision spokesperson Colin Berry has died at the age of 79. For 25 years, Berry was the person who read out the UK’s voting decision at the Eurovision Song ...

Former BBC Radio 2 DJ Colin Berry has died at the age of 79, the corporation has said.. He spent 25 years as the man who read out the UK’s voting decision at the Eurovision Song Contest, until 2002.

This is Radio Caroline, the ship that launched a thousand hits, a string of DJs and inspired a new film, The Boat That Rocked. Today the paintwork is peeling, the planks are rickety and the old ...