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About Radio Caroline
Listen online to the internet radio of Radio Caroline, which launched in 1964 as a pirate radio station in Essex as Europe's first album station. Today the station operates as a non-profit organisation, with traditional AM availablity across the UK. Radio Caroline has a huge music repertoire since its playlist streches from the early years of the radio itself - the 60s - to the present day, and airs mostly rock and alternative genres in the unique line-up. The radio has a sister station "Flashback" which focuses on the pop hits of the 60s and 70s. Radio Caroline begins the weekdays from 7am to 9am with Tony Paul's breakfast show.
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Postal address: PO Box 12524, Maldon, Essex, CM9 9EX
Website: https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk
Phone: +44 0208 340 3831
E-mail: studio[kukac]radiocaroline.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiocarolineofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theradcaroline
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Website: https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk
Phone: +44 0208 340 3831
E-mail: studio[kukac]radiocaroline.co.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/radiocarolineofficial
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theradcaroline
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/radio_caroline_official
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/[kukac]radiocarolineofficial
Radio Caroline frequencies
United Kingdom - 648 AMYou can listen to Radio Caroline on the traditional analogue AM frequency and on the digital solutions like DAB in the UK, and without territorial restrictions by its online radio stream.
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News about Radio Caroline
Radio Caroline to celebrate 60 years of broadcasting this Easter
Radio Caroline celebrates its 60th anniversary this Easter with a special three-day broadcast from Ross Revenge on the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 20.03.2024
Former BBC presenter Ray Clark returns to Radio Caroline
Former BBC Essex presenter Ray Clark is joining Radio Caroline, where he started his career, following a year of uncertainty over the changes to BBC local radio.More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 12.10.2023
Crowds turn out to see Rick Wakeman reveal Radio Caroline train
Rick Wakeman CBE was at Mangapps Railway Museum in Burnham-on-Crouch on Sunday (1st October) to officially unveil a locomotive train dedicated to Radio Caroline.More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 02.10.2023
Former Radio Caroline studio to feature in television programme
Studio equipment from Radio Caroline’s former pirate radio ship Ross Revenge will feature in an episode of a new TV show called Retro Electro Workshop on the Yesterday channel next week. The ten-part series about the dying art of repairing electronics is fronted by super-fixer Rob Howard...More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 20.07.2023
Former pirate station Radio Caroline goes green with solar power
Veteran pirate station Radio Caroline is now operating on direct solar power. The station now broadcasts on a community radio licence in East Anglia and is heard across England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond on 648AM from the Orfordness Transmitting Station on the Suffolk coast...More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 05.06.2023
Emperor Rosko returns home for breakfast at Radio Caroline
Emperor Rosko will present a series of monthly breakfast shows on Radio Caroline starting this month. Rosko joined Radio Caroline as a pirate radio DJ in 1964 before joining BBC Radio 1 as one of their original presenters in 1967...More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 05.01.2023
Limited edition Radio Caroline turntables created as prizes
Radio Caroline is to give away special Ross Revenge turntables as prizes. The station has teamed up with Rega Research, designers and manufacturers of hi-fi equipment, to produce limited edition Radio Caroline turntables for a listener competition. The turntable features a Ross Revenge Red gloss plinth, a matt black Radio Caroline logo, and a slip mat with an image of Caroline’s radio ship ‘Ross Revenge’ on its mooring on the River Blackwater, Essex...More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 22.07.2022
Pirate radio presenters from Caroline’s Mi Amigo era reunite
Presenters who played a key role in the survival of Radio Caroline in the 70s were reunited on board the ship for the first time in more than 40 years at the weekend. Eleven of the DJs who kept Caroline on the air from the Mi Amigo during that period, enduring many deprivations and emergencies, reunited on board Caroline’s successorship...More >>radiotoday.co.uk - 11.07.2022
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Playlist 17
23:21Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part IV
23:16My Morning Jacket - Golden
23:12Paul Kantner - Have You Seen the Stars Tonite
23:08U2 - Running To Stand Still
23:05John Bramwell - Leave No Traces
23:00Foo Fighters - On The Mend
22:56Florence + The Machine - Free
22:52R.E.M. - Near Wild Heaven
22:48Sam Fender - Spit Of You
22:44Latin Quarter - Radio Africa
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Radio Caroline's programmes17
00:00 - Top Fifteen Replay
A repeat of the Top 15 Show first heard yesterday morning at 9am.
01:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Terry Hughes
Terry started in broadcasting in 1979 at a talking newspaper for the visually impaired, then he spent a few years at Dudley and District Hospital Broadcasting. He did a few shows on Beacon 303 and BRMB, including joint shows with Gordon Astley, Mike Baker and Roger Day, and some gigs with KKJ, and at the age of 18 was being considered for a full time role in Independent Local Radio but his dad said "Son, go and get a proper job".
So in 1983 Terry moved to Coventry and became an apprentice at GEC. To make extra money he became a nightclub DJ, and for fun he was involved with 2 land-based FM pirate stations in Coventry: Segway Sound and City FM.
Terry had always been obsessed with pirate radio, and in those early Coventry days he listened to Radio Caroline and Laser 558 from afar, dreaming of a day when he could fulfil his dream of presenting on Radio Caroline. He recalls sending a demo tape to Radio Caroline in the early 80s, and it was sent back with a rejection letter.
And that was that. Until COVID came along. Like everyone else Terry was locked down and had more time on his hands. He started putting shows together, he published them on Mixcloud to great reviews, he got picked up by a UK based internet radio station and did 6 months of "Terry's Real Gold" live radio every weekend. He also became the presenter of the syndicated Retro Charts weekly countdown.
Then at last, some 42 years after starting out in radio, he felt confident enough to approach Radio Caroline, and he was offered the weekday early breakfast slot, from 6am to 7am UK time. Each morning Terry warms up for Tony Paul, another Beacon 303 graduate from the early 80s.
Terry's first show was in March 2021, and since then he has built up a loyal set of early riser listeners, along with people all over the world.
07:00 - Tony Paul
Tony started out as a disc jockey on the London club circuit. His first job in commercial radio was at Beacon Radio in the Midlands, broadcasting from Wolverhampton to the West Midlands and Shropshire. His 'Prince of Darkness' overnights became cult listening! He moved to early evenings and then to Afternoon Drive. In the 1980's, Tony interviewed virtually every major music artist from both sides of the Atlantic. His love of US Top 40 radio led to stints across 'the Pond' on WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut, WSPK New York and Q106 in San Diego.
After Beacon, he went to BRMB, followed by Buzz FM in Birmingham and MFM in Cheshire. He was then chosen to launch and run a new station - Sunshine 855 - based in Shropshire. Eventually, the lure of California sunshine took him back across the Atlantic to Los Angeles. After a stint on radio station KBBY, he ended up doing what everyone does when they come to LA – working in Hollywood! He founded his own entertainment news agency and since 1996, he's run a successful company supplying celebrity interviews and movie coverage to major TV, Radio and New Media outlets around the world.
He can now add virtually every major Hollywood star to his list of interviewees! When the chance came to do a Breakfast Show from Los Angeles for Radio Caroline, Tony didn't hesitate and he looks forward to sharing his tales from the Hollywood Hills with Caroline listeners every weekday morning.
09:00 - Top Fifteens
A Caroline listener's music selection - see 'Top Fifteens' page for details.
10:00 - Gary Ziepe
Quantum mechanics, exercising on a rowing machine and keeping the neighbours under surveillance are just some of Gary's interests. Music is another. Growing up in London in the sixties the first woman he fell in love with was Dusty Springfield. His first big lesson of childhood was realising that was a mistake.
Gary started his career in the library at Capital Radio. Referring to his long hair at the time Kenny Everett said "I must get a wig like that." Since then he's presented various shows at a number of radio stations including Country 1035, Radio Luxembourg, Breeze AM, Essex FM, Chiltern FM and Invicta FM. Gary also worked on Capital Gold for ten years.
The most bizarre call he's ever had was from a lady who wanted to turn up after the show to meet him in the car park naked. She never did and to this day Gary doesn't know if this was a threat or a promise. At least she didn't ask him to play Misty!
Some dial surfing in the 70's led him to discover Caroline for the first time. "I'm so glad to now be on a station that's unafraid of playing a capacious tapestry of quality tracks."
14:00 - Johnny Reece
Johnny Reece has been broadcasting Radio programmes for various stations over the past couple of decades, to the UK, USA, Netherlands, France, Germany, and Slovakia.
Reece was born in March 1958. However, when very drunk, he has attempted to claim he was born in 1973. Perhaps he doesn't know. I say this, because I asked him, and he said "I don't know". This is,of course, a lie. What isn't a lie is the fact that he has been buying records since he was 7, boasts of a personal collection of over 20,000 albums (having run his own Record Shop in the past did rather help that) and the rest, as they say, is hysterical.
His programmes will feature Album tracks covering at least 50 years, anything from new and forthcoming releases, or a bunch of hits instead if the mood takes. If he thinks it's good, it goes in.That's the rule. He has also just completed rebuilding the main 'AZ Towers' Studio (version 3) after having recently relocated to Sussex.
May contain nuts.
17:00 - Mike Brill
Mike Brill was a regular Caroline North listener in the 1960's while living in Rhyl N.Wales. After schooling he gained an engineering background in BBC Local Radio during 70's & 80's.
Here he was allowed both sides of the 'mic' and presented a weekly rock show playing album music & recording sessions as well as interviews with local bands ('Kent Rocks').
Mike has very large vinyl collection, which he finds useful for finding the occasional rare album track.
His introduction to the revived Radio Caroline was through by DJ colleague Jerry Wright who was with the station on the Ross Revenge during 1986.
Mike started with Caroline just after the closure of our analogue satellite service in 2001 - and gained a regular show in 2002.
He is currently working as a self-employed Computer Consultant (expert!) providing IT support to a variety of local companies. And is now responsible for keeping Caroline computers ticking over.
20:00 - Marc Griffiths
Marc joined the presentation team back in 2003 and within his first year took over a weekly Wednesday night programme. Marc is a massive follower of the new music scene challenging himself to deliver brand new music each and every week, he helps out with programming the new music category at Caroline. Marc loves most things new but hes a fan of the Beatles, Stones, T Rex and U2 but has an interest in the American music scene liking anything from Tom petty to bands such as Counting Crows, Matchbox 20 and Train but his biggest love comes from the Madchester scene and Stone Roses, Charlatans and Happy Mondays.
Marc, along with good friend Dave Foster, can often be seen at live gigs having a good laugh.
Marc started his radio career at Hospital Radio level as a member of Darenth valley HR. He presented the weekly WH Smith album chart for 2 years.
Marc's a very sought after function Disc Jockey formerly playing at all West end Hotels and at many celebrity bashes. He also was a party Dj on the Greek island of Zante.
Marc's Facebook entry
23:00 - The Mellow Show with Gary Ziepe
An eclectic mix of laid back tracks across time and genres