When I was conducting interviews into research on Belfast pirate radio, one story that stood out was Speak Your Peace 101 FM. The station based above a vegetable shop was challenging, diverse and anarchist. It's diversity is best illustrated as one of the programmes that they aired was a discussion on the market conditions on the then sale of drugs in Belfast. They provided current street prices on various illegal narcotics and while they did not endorse the taking of drugs they did give general directions as to where drugs could be purchased. They show and its presenters proved very popular with listeners but not with the authorities but the authorities were listening and taking notes as a number of raids and arrests followed discussions on the air.
To follow this controversial show was 'The Gardening Hour', but this was no ordinary horticultural show in fact the show gave an in depth guide on how to grow and cultivate cannabis, and like the lead it show it proved very popular on Speak Your Peace.
