Pirateradio Stories

It has always been difficult for me to understand how white South Africans who built successful careers under the country's apartheid regime can live with the guilt and...

I recognised the tune. Not only did I recognise it, I knew all the words and would have happily rapped along with it. But not here. Definitely not here during rush hour...

"There's a bomb!" someone shouted. "There's a bomb!" I had just collected 'NME' from the newsagent that reserved it for me each week and had been la...

The prostitute was perched on the edge of my bed. Using the elementary Hebrew I had learned from children's television, we chatted about her young daughter and the disas...

The final few days before KISS FM's official launch were a blur of frenetic activity and outright panic. It was only at this late date that construction of the three stu...

"If this gets out, we're screwed," my boss told me. Actually, I have paraphrased because at least one expletive was guaranteed in this man's every sentence. He...

My car would be going nowhere. All four of its tyres had been slashed during the night. It had been parked on the street below the block of flats where I lived. This was...

I only knew 'Roger Tate' (real name Bob Tomalski) through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on 'Radio Invicta', London's first soul music radio stati...

It was only just daylight when I suddenly realised that the phone was ringing. It seemed to take me ages to drag my weary body out of bed, as the phone continued to ring...

As the lovlye Ashley La Morte got into a shipwreck with her whole family and some friends she ended up trying to survive on the cold waters of the ocean. Then when she...

with the only radio station accessible legally in ireland being the state's own, kieran, tomás and charlie decide to set up their own station with what the youth REALLY...