Death of a Pirate British Radio and the Making of the Information Age

Name: Death of a Pirate British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
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ISBN: 9780393341805

ISBN-10: 0393341801

ISBN-13: 9780393341805

Edition: 2012

Authors: Adrian Johns

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When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley’s country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England. Situated on ships and offshore forts like Shivering Sands, these stations blasted away at the high-minded BBC’s broadcast monopoly with the new beats of the Stones and DJs like Screaming Lord Sutch. For free-market ideologues like Smedley, the pirate stations were entrepreneurial efforts to undermine the growing British welfare state as embodied by the BBC. The worlds of high table and underground collide in this riveting history.A treasure. . . . [Adrian] Johns portrays the…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English