Brilliant documentary as posted on the Oi Polloi blog, harking back to the days of pirate radio. As far as i know, most pirates have shut down, as the web makes DIY ‘radio’ easy and legal. But what strikes me looking at the film (It looks like an old Arena or London Tonight) is that it’s not about the media of radio so much as the fact that this was illegal. That was what made it so compelling for both listener and broadcaster.
You’re also left thinking that this kind of thing is impossible when the establishment tries to co-opt youth culture, as it does these days, but really didn’t until Blair. For this kind of thing to happen needs a distance from the people making the rules, and needs those rules to be broken.
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