Radio Sovereign - December 1970

From the MV Obiap 'somewhere in the North Sea', this was Radio Sovereign.
There is some suggestion that this actually came from an office in Kent, South-East England.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• pirate
• offshore
• radio
• sound
• broadcasting

[davesmoothtalk]

weirdly enough in 1970 there were rumours of a new pirate station off the Sussex coast called Radio Sovereign. I even think a station was heard with that call sign. It was a hoax. Record Mirror published a letter from a listener saying her Dad was a coastguard and that there was a ship. I think at the time it was thought to be a land based station pretending to be off shore. The Andy Archer recording could well mean that he was taken in by the hoax, and pre-recorded a show for them

[coolamradio]

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[102firefly]

This has now found its way on to the Internet. The voice of Andy Archer is heard on this clip which does give it some credibility but believe me, this is purely a fantasy trip! Absolutely no offshore broadcasts using the call sign Radio Sovereign have ever been made.

[102firefly]

So it is totally impossible for this to have been a clip from 1970 as purported. It's also interesting to note that the perpetrators of this also included a music clip 'The Overure from Tommy'. I used this as Radio Sovereign's theme in 1983. So this is just a pale attempt to copy the original ideas Crispian and I formulated in '83. My guess is that a few people put together a demo tape in a studio using the name Radio Sovereign.

[102firefly]

This is a complete hoax!! This clip had to be made post 1983 for the simple reason that the jingle used at the end was made in 1983 and I should know, I commissioned it for the real Radio Sovereign in 1983 a station I owned and put together with (now sadly deceased) Crispian St. John. The jingle was made by Steve England.

[fluffybonce]

OBIAP = Oh Blimey It's Another Pirate.