Pirate Radio Archives - UK Pirate Radio 1980's

 

The depth and wealth of pirate radio archives that were part of the Anoraks Ireland Collection donated to the Irish Pirate Radio Archive at Dublin City University is diverse and important both to pirate radio history and social history. Much of the archives collected by Paul Davidson while he ran the fanzine Anoraks Ireland is focused on Ireland but some of his collection features UK pirate radio, European and American illegal broadcasting and offshore pirate stations. The publicity attached to these stations was conducted in a pre-internet era, when fans sent for ‘newsletters’ by using IRC’s, International Reply Coupons he assist with post.

 

There have been many fan organizations for pirate radio across the world and here is one of the newsletters from Free Radio Service which not only broadcast pirate news on shortwave but also produced this newsletter. That's followed by a Radio Quatro Fact Sheet, the history of Radio Titanic and 'Sounds Alternative' (Not to be confused with a magazine of a similar name produced by the Free Radio Campaign Ireland)

We will continue to bring you some of the archives from the Collection but we will in our next post bring you some of the Irish pirate radio archives. 

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