Radio Caroline's programmes
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00:00 - Countdown
01:00 - The Mellow Show with Gary Ziepe
An eclectic mix of laid back tracks across time and genres
03:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Ellie Boyce
Ellie has always enjoyed music and going out to the Ross Revenge regularly for the past 8 years. She especially loved to sit and watch the DJs on air ... More >>- and was even known to make YouTube skits with the DJs creating Radio Ellie. Ellie has been on stage since the age of 4, performing in a variety of amateur dramatic shows and dancing with a local dance school. She has a passion for musical theatre and will continue performing onstage and in studios, while also learning the ways of the airwaves!
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 ... More >> 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 With Andre Van Os
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Pat Edison
Born in Croydon, South London, Pat was smitten by the radio bug 14 years later whereby he was forced to launch his own station via a pair of walkie-ta ... More >>lkies. His parents, sisters and the cat may have been his only listeners, but it was a start.
A while later he moved onto landbased pirate radio, firstly with the legendary Radio Jackie, then Radio Kaleidoscope which gained a reputation of being one of the most regular and professional pirates in London.
After Kaleidoscope closed in 1976 some of its staff set up a radio service at The London Hospital, Whitechapel and Pat spent many years there as presenter, engineer and later programme director.
In 1996 he spent some time finding out about life outside radio, however the pull of radio was too much, and after 5 years in the wilderness he returned to radio as part of the Radio Caroline team. Pat can currently be heard on Monday, Thursday and Sundays mornings 10am - 2pm.
Pat has also presented for the present day Radio Jackie in South West London, and a number of Restricted Service Licence stations and is currently working as a web and app developer.
14:00 - John Ellery
John Ellery hails from Southampton and has had a long fascination with radio and has worked on all the stations in Southampton being part of the team ... More >>that brought local radio to the city.
Starting with Southcity FM to The Saint, Radio Hampshire & Play Radio. He has also worked at Spire FM, BBC Solent, The Coast 106, Summerfest Radio with Kevin Turner.
John still has a regular weekday slot on Forest FM’s Drive Time, Winchester Today and has been long associated with the UK’s longest RSL Special Event Station, Cowes Radio for the summer regatta although he is not in to sailing he makes sure the beer is always up to a good standard. Just what you need before going on air! Radio is a great opportunity to meet interesting people and play good music and on Caroline have access to play great album tracks.
In his spare time he enjoys his home county of Hampshire exploring The New Forest while seeking out Real Ale pubs. Travelling to Italy is a must each year tasting the Italian food & wine. His own cooking is edible, favoring a good English Sunday Roast.
16:00 - Suzy Wilde
Suzy Wilde is a broadcaster and designer based in France.
Growing up on the Isle of Wight, it was perhaps inevitable that the young Suzy would be inf ... More >>luenced by the iconic IOW Festivals of the late 60's & 1970.
Suzy remarked that "the Festivals had a huge impact on me. It was so glamorous and exciting, and even though I was just a little kid, I knew then that I wanted to be part of that world".
Suzy has owned and run two music promotions companies, managed bands & handled PR for major rock acts, but it wasn't until she moved to Los Angeles in the 1980's, that she had her first experiences with radio broadcasting.
"KLOS ROCK was THE Classic Rock station in LA, and I was fortunate enough to be involved with them at a really exciting time in rock music".
Following her return from the States, Suzy has worked as a lighting designer for a French company, and now lives in South West France, where she is a presenter on Radio Coteaux.
19:00 - Rob Ashard
Rob Ashard started listening to Radio Caroline during his school days in Ipswich in the mid 70's. His interest in radio continued through the 80's wit ... More >>h a little bit of FM pirate radio, along with engineering and presenting work on Hospital Radio Ipswich.Having worked in TV broadcast sound since 1980, he was involved in the Kingston RSL and successful station applicant, Thames FM (which has since become Radio Jackie) doing the Saturday night rockshow, Thames FM Rocks. Shortly after this links were made with Radio Caroline and Rob did his first show from the Maidstone Studios on a Saturday morning during the 1999 Southend RSL broadcast and has been doing a bit of engineering work and the odd programme ever since.
Rob is still a TV Sound Engineer working on many popular shows, but has also run some FM broadcasts for classic car shows and also can be heard in Nitro FM, Santa Pod Raceway's own radio station, which, as he says, zips up his car and radio anoraks, as his other passions are his 1975 Corvettte and drag racing.
After stumbling across the station in 1977, Nick became fascinated by the Caroline story and its music. This led to his passion for radio generally, i ... More >>nitially running a pirate station from a London water tower – a great spot for FM – and placing aerials in trees with Radios Floss and Duck.
After narrowly missing out on a job with ‘thinner record spinner' Roger Day at the newly launching Invicta Sound, Nick settled for a Telecoms job. But the draw of Caroline never went away, and after visiting the ship on Albert Hood’s 'sightseeing' trips, and Albert kindly passing Nick's demo tape on, he got a call from Andy 'Cosmic' Johnson. After a disconcerting trip to Dover in the company Volvo, Nick joined the station as Nick Bolland in July '87. An experience he says he would not miss for the world. He would have gone back, had contact not been lost as Cosmic left the business seemingly taking his notes with him.
Nick took up community radio in his home area near Newbury in 2018 and enjoyed a couple of years working with Kevin Turner, who he’d met at Caroline's 50th. Nick is delighted to be back. As colleague Peter Philips once observed, there aren't many jobs you can go back to after all this time, still less ones you'd want to.
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 - Ellie Boyce
Ellie has always enjoyed music and going out to the Ross Revenge regularly for the past 8 years. She especially loved to sit and watch the DJs on air ... More >>- and was even known to make YouTube skits with the DJs creating Radio Ellie. Ellie has been on stage since the age of 4, performing in a variety of amateur dramatic shows and dancing with a local dance school. She has a passion for musical theatre and will continue performing onstage and in studios, while also learning the ways of the airwaves!
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 ... More >> 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 With Mark Whall
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Stephen Foster
Stephen is one of this country’s most experienced music broadcasters with more than 40 years’ worth of programmes for the BBC and commercial radio und ... More >>er his belt.
Affectionately known as Foz, he was born and bred in Suffolk and has Radio Caroline to thank for his eclectic taste in music having been an avid listener to the likes of Andy Archer, Tony Allan, Johnny Jason and Simon Barrett during the 1970s.
Foz is delighted to be broadcasting on the station that ignited his passion for albums. He has a huge CD and vinyl collection covering the history of popular music and is widely regarded as an expert on the subject.
14:00 - André van Os (Sitting in)
Inspired by Radio Caroline and Mi Amigo in the late 1970's, André started making radio on a landbased pirate in his home country The Netherland ... More >>s and for a short spell on a Belgium one. He did music and news programmes for hospital radio up north and in Amsterdam, where he was also passionately involved in local newsradio on FM.For twenty years he worked for several national public broadcasters as an internet pioneer, setting up their first streaming webradio stations with documentaries and current affairs. He was head of the internet department of Radio Netherlands Worldwide, until the government unfortunately cut most of the station's funding.While writing about radio for magazines and websites he got in touch with the internet heir of The Voice of Peace, the station he saw and listened to in Israel. He presented his Peacetrain show there for four years. After that, it was on to his first love in radio: Caroline.
You can catch Andre on the Late Show alternate Tuesdays at 10pm and he also hosts the listener Top 15s.
17:00 - Adrian Skirrow (Sitting in)
Record label exec, music industry consultant and music aficionado Adrian Skirrow has spent most of his career working for and running multi-national m ... More >>usic labels, as well as his own leading independent label and concert promotions business and counts himself as privileged to have have been able to work closely with some of the biggest names in the business.
Originally from Yorkshire, Adrian spent his youth in South Africa and many year's as a club DJ playing building up a loyal following and playing sell out club nights at some of the iconic alternative rock venues in Johannesburg, which were also frequented by UK ex-pat's who brought in the latest new wave and goth sounds that found their way on to the dance floors. The music broken on the dance floor back then influences Adrian's radio show's to this day, and his passion for introducing new music outside of the mainstream.
Adrian joined Radio Caroline in January 2020 to host a weekly late night show prior to his current weekly time slot on Friday's between 7-9pm.
19:30 - Alec Lamb
Alec grew up in Essex, brought up on a radio diet of Caroline, early Radio One, Radio North Sea International and Veronica. A self confessed Vinyl Jun ... More >>kie, he started buying music way back in '66 with Manfred Mann's 'Pretty Flamingo' being the first one and soon progressed from there. Even today he can often be found scouring the charity shops for hidden gems.
He set out doing on Mobile Disco's in '74 with the usual rounds of pubs, weddings and club presentation events, plus background music before such bands as Geordie, Hustler, GT Moore and the Reggea Guitars and The Kursaal Flyers. This continued until 2009.
The year before Alec started doing a couple of hours for a local community station Saint FM in the Maldon area of Essex, presenting a 70's show and more eclectic late night show. He loved radio so much he finally stopped doing the disco circuit.
"The chance to do a slot on Caroline was too good to miss" – says Alec "So here I am".
22:00 - Tuesday Late with Andre van Os
Inspired by Radio Caroline and Mi Amigo in the late 1970's, André started making radio on a landbased pirate in his home country The Netherland ... More >>s and for a short spell on a Belgium one. He did music and news programmes for hospital radio up north and in Amsterdam, where he was also passionately involved in local newsradio on FM.For twenty years he worked for several national public broadcasters as an internet pioneer, setting up their first streaming webradio stations with documentaries and current affairs. He was head of the internet department of Radio Netherlands Worldwide, until the government unfortunately cut most of the station's funding.While writing about radio for magazines and websites he got in touch with the internet heir of The Voice of Peace, the station he saw and listened to in Israel. He presented his Peacetrain show there for four years. After that, it was on to his first love in radio: Caroline. First to wake you up on early mornings, now doing Saturday afternoons and Tuesday lates.
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 - Ellie Boyce
Ellie has always enjoyed music and going out to the Ross Revenge regularly for the past 8 years. She especially loved to sit and watch the DJs on air ... More >>- and was even known to make YouTube skits with the DJs creating Radio Ellie. Ellie has been on stage since the age of 4, performing in a variety of amateur dramatic shows and dancing with a local dance school. She has a passion for musical theatre and will continue performing onstage and in studios, while also learning the ways of the airwaves!
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 ... More >> 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 With Mark Whall
A Caroline listener's music selection
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. G ... More >>rowing 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 ... More >>, 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 B ... More >>BC 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 t ... More >>he 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
00:00 - The Mellow Show with Gary Ziepe
An eclectic mix of laid back tracks across time and genres
01:00 - Top Fifteen Replay
A repeat of the Top 15 Show first heard yesterday morning at 9am.
02:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Ellie Boyce
Ellie has always enjoyed music and going out to the Ross Revenge regularly for the past 8 years. She especially loved to sit and watch the DJs on air ... More >>- and was even known to make YouTube skits with the DJs creating Radio Ellie. Ellie has been on stage since the age of 4, performing in a variety of amateur dramatic shows and dancing with a local dance school. She has a passion for musical theatre and will continue performing onstage and in studios, while also learning the ways of the airwaves!
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 ... More >> 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 With Mark Whall
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Pat Edison
Born in Croydon, South London, Pat was smitten by the radio bug 14 years later whereby he was forced to launch his own station via a pair of walkie-ta ... More >>lkies. His parents, sisters and the cat may have been his only listeners, but it was a start.
A while later he moved onto landbased pirate radio, firstly with the legendary Radio Jackie, then Radio Kaleidoscope which gained a reputation of being one of the most regular and professional pirates in London.
After Kaleidoscope closed in 1976 some of its staff set up a radio service at The London Hospital, Whitechapel and Pat spent many years there as presenter, engineer and later programme director.
In 1996 he spent some time finding out about life outside radio, however the pull of radio was too much, and after 5 years in the wilderness he returned to radio as part of the Radio Caroline team. Pat can currently be heard on Monday, Thursday and Sundays mornings 10am - 2pm.
Pat has also presented for the present day Radio Jackie in South West London, and a number of Restricted Service Licence stations and is currently working as a web and app developer.
14:00 - Will Ridgeon (Sitting in)
Will Ridgeon began his radio career on his university radio station and has also been a DJ in the Sheffield area. Will's taste cover all genres and de ... More >>cades, and he particularly enjoys classic rock as well as 60s/70s music. Will is a new voice to Radio Caroline and we look forward to hearing a lot more from him in the future
17:00 - Steve Dack (Sitting in)
I played around with mobile disco’s in the 70's was then asked to join my local Hospital Radio Station in Kings Lynn where I learnt the basics of radi ... More >>o.
In the early 90's I joined a new station in Littleport Cambs called X-Cel FM, did a few R.S.L’s then we got a full time local radio licence. This was a great station where I did the Friday Rock show for a few years until the station was taken over by a large Radio group. While I was there I became friends with Barry James who invited me to accompany him down to the Radio Caroline studios which at the time where in Maidstone.
I did an on air audition for the Boss and was offered a regular show at weekends.
As I was a self employed Carpenter and Decorator I was soon put to use on the restoration crew working on the Ross Revenge, something I still do as and when I am available.
I returned to doing regular programmes on Caroline a couple of years ago when I became a pensioner, which meant I had more time to devote to radio. I built a studio at home and through the miracle of modern technology, I am able to broadcast live on Radio Caroline.
My regular time slot is at Midnight Fridays, I can also be heard the last Friday of the month from 10 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, as well as occasionally covering for other presenters when they are not available.
Most weekends in the summer I can been found on the road somewhere on my Harley Davidson.
19:00 - Josh Holmes-Bright
19-year-old Josh has been on the radio for over five years, and he prides himself in having a music taste different to most people his age. Aged 13, J ... More >>osh started his broadcasting career on the Drive Time show at his local community station, which quickly brought in experience. This experience saw Josh become a part of the team at Caroline Community Radio (now Caroline Coastal FM) as it first began broadcasting to the Maldon District and the Essex Coast. After several years of hard work here, Josh was promoted to Assistant Station Manager in 2023 and continues to run the station, organise events and scout new talent.
In February 2022, Radio Caroline invited Josh onto the Ross Revenge for the monthly Radio Caroline North weekend - which resulted in him becoming the youngest ever DJ for the station. This became permanent as Josh took over the Countdown of Album Sounds, and now Josh is a regular on the Caroline North weekends as well as being heard on Thursday evenings.
Josh won Gold at the 2023 Community Radio Awards in the 'Young Person of the Year' category for his work at Caroline Coastal FM. He was presented with the award at the ceremony in Newcastle, and was victorious amongst DJ's under the age of 25 from across the UK.
Josh grew up listening to Radio Caroline and so enjoys every moment of his time hosting his shows, touring visitors around Ross Revenge and listening to stories about the offshore days from DJs he grew up listening to!
21:00 - Steve Dack (Sitting in)
I played around with mobile disco’s in the 70's was then asked to join my local Hospital Radio Station in Kings Lynn where I learnt the basics of radi ... More >>o.
In the early 90's I joined a new station in Littleport Cambs called X-Cel FM, did a few R.S.L’s then we got a full time local radio licence. This was a great station where I did the Friday Rock show for a few years until the station was taken over by a large Radio group. While I was there I became friends with Barry James who invited me to accompany him down to the Radio Caroline studios which at the time where in Maidstone.
I did an on air audition for the Boss and was offered a regular show at weekends.
As I was a self employed Carpenter and Decorator I was soon put to use on the restoration crew working on the Ross Revenge, something I still do as and when I am available.
I returned to doing regular programmes on Caroline a couple of years ago when I became a pensioner, which meant I had more time to devote to radio. I built a studio at home and through the miracle of modern technology, I am able to broadcast live on Radio Caroline.
My regular time slot is at Midnight Fridays, I can also be heard the last Friday of the month from 10 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, as well as occasionally covering for other presenters when they are not available.
Most weekends in the summer I can been found on the road somewhere on my Harley Davidson.
00:00 - Mandy Marton
02:00 - Top Fifteen Replay
A repeat of the Top 15 Show first heard yesterday morning at 9am.
03:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Ellie Boyce
Ellie has always enjoyed music and going out to the Ross Revenge regularly for the past 8 years. She especially loved to sit and watch the DJs on air ... More >>- and was even known to make YouTube skits with the DJs creating Radio Ellie. Ellie has been on stage since the age of 4, performing in a variety of amateur dramatic shows and dancing with a local dance school. She has a passion for musical theatre and will continue performing onstage and in studios, while also learning the ways of the airwaves!
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 ... More >> 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 With David Naylor
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Barry James
Barry first found music when he borrowed his sisters record collection when he was about eight and was hooked. When Caroline started it was a new begi ... More >>ning, and listened to all the stations, but Caroline was his favourite by far.
Later he became a singer in band, then started doing discos when he was 18. He joined Caroline in 1977, touring the country with the Caroline Roadshow for 10 years, having great fun. Barry helped with tender trips and worked on the Ross Revenge in '84 and '85. He has done many RSL's with the station, and is very proud to be part of THE LEGEND.
Barry has worked at Hastings Rock, XLfm in Ely, and Tulip Radio in Spalding. Barry is married to a very understanding wife, Bud, has 3 children and 5 lovely grandchildren. He says he will work for Caroline for as long as they want him – or can put up with him! LA.
14:00 - Nigel Harris
Nigel Harris (as Stuart Russell) was part of the late seventies team on the Mi Amigo working also on the Ross Revenge in the eighties and nineties. H ... More >>e stayed with Caroline for many years becoming the very last programme controller when the ship was still at sea. A trip to Israel and the Voice of Peace followed and then with offshore radio all but over, Nigel went to Invicta and now works at KMFM in Kent. He has been involved with Caroline since being in his teens and still continues to present Caroline programmes from Maidstone having been there since the start of satellite programmes.
When not on the radio Nigel enjoys his other passion of playing the church organ and plays at his local church in Sittingbourne. He also played several times in Rochester Cathedral and once left the Ross Revenge when she was anchored on the Medway and went straight to Evensong in the Cathedral. Ambitions include a dive on Titanic and a ride in a hot air balloon but a fear of enclosed spaces and heights may just prevent them happening.
Often asked which ship was his favourite, the answer is the Mi Amigo because of its history and homely feel but then the Ross Revenge is only a smidgen behind and he loves them both. Nigel can be heard on Caroline on Friday afternoons and other times when needed.
17:00 - Martin Fisher
Martin Fisher has Radio in his blood. Hailing from the birthplace of radio, Chelmsford, he remembers his Grandfather explaining how one could receive ... More >>the early Marconi broadcasts with no more than a poker in the ground, a piece of coal and a pair of headphones! The young Martin's own experiments with crystal sets proved very disappointing though as he could only receive the BBC Home and Light programmes.
Despite this, he continued to develop an interest in music until one day at school, rumours started about a new Radio Station on board a ship Radio Caroline. He was hooked and wondered what it would be like to work on a radio ship. Little did he realise that he would find out first hand just a few years later when he was invited to a secret London location and offered the job of Transmitter Engineer and DJ!
So it was that Martin Fisher found himself on board the famous Mi Amigo early in January 1977. During that first stint not only did Martin DJ for the first time, but also assisted with the move from 259 to 319 metres. He remained with Radio Caroline for nearly three years but has continued to work behind the scenes in the broadcasting world ever since.
Martin jumped at the chance to return to the fold in the late 1990s for Caroline's new satellite service, and 2007 sees him celebrating 30 years since first joining Radio Caroline. You can hear Martin Fisher on late Wednesday afternoons, with his regular show.
19:00 - Adrian Skirrow
Record label exec, music industry consultant and music aficionado Adrian Skirrow has spent most of his career working for and running multi-national m ... More >>usic labels, as well as his own leading independent label and concert promotions business and counts himself as privileged to have have been able to work closely with some of the biggest names in the business.
Originally from Yorkshire, Adrian spent his youth in South Africa and many year's as a club DJ playing building up a loyal following and playing sell out club nights at some of the iconic alternative rock venues in Johannesburg, which were also frequented by UK ex-pat's who brought in the latest new wave and goth sounds that found their way on to the dance floors. The music broken on the dance floor back then influences Adrian's radio show's to this day, and his passion for introducing new music outside of the mainstream.
Adrian joined Radio Caroline in January 2020 to host a weekly late night show prior to his current weekly time slot on Friday's between 7-9pm.
21:00 - Rob van Dijk
Already in his early teens Rob van Dijk wanted to be a DJ or radio host. At the end of the seventies he decided to move to The Hague, to join several ... More >>land-based pirates and learn 'on the job'. A few years later he worked for several local stations and in 1988 – the first year commercial radio was allowed in the Netherlands – he started as a news-reader – and editor at Radio 10. Later he became a radio presenter by Radio West and RTV Rijnmond, both in the province Zuid-Holland. Between 2001 and 2012 Rob was audible as reporter and news anchor at the Dutch World Service Radio Netherlands. Since June 2016 Rob presents and composes a daily show from his own studio in his living room for five Dutch internet stations, and from October 2022 he’s making his 'contributions' on Friday evenings from 9 - 12 on Radio Caroline as well. Since January 2023 he also presents Caroline's Countdown of Album Sounds, the album top 40 on Sunday evenings from 10 - 01.Rob is a big fan from 'Europe’s first album station'since it’s comeback from the Mi Amigo in 1972 and experiences his joining of the Radio Caroline-family as a great and honourable opportunity.
00:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
02:00 - The Album Zone with Johnny Reece
Join Johnny Reece and friends for a wide selection of music from one of the largest album collections on the planet!
05:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Stephen Foster (Sitting in)
Stephen is one of this country’s most experienced music broadcasters with more than 40 years’ worth of programmes for the BBC and commercial radio und ... More >>er his belt.
Affectionately known as Foz, he was born and bred in Suffolk and has Radio Caroline to thank for his eclectic taste in music having been an avid listener to the likes of Andy Archer, Tony Allan, Johnny Jason and Simon Barrett during the 1970s.
Foz is delighted to be broadcasting on the station that ignited his passion for albums. He has a huge CD and vinyl collection covering the history of popular music and is widely regarded as an expert on the subject.
09:00 - Top Fifteens With Graham Bannerman
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Paul Brown
Paul Brown has always had a great love of music of all kinds although the nearest he got to performing was a choir boy in his local church in Surrey. ... More >>He was bitten by the 'Radio Bug' when he discovered the sounds coming from the North Sea back in the 1960's and it was then that he decided that he wanted to share music with others – building a makeshift studio in his bedroom (later moving it to the shed!) to entertain his family and the next door neighbour with his cable radio station Radio Aztec.
Since then Paul has worked in Hospital Radio and Local Commercial Radio. During his time with a famous automobile organisation he did manage to be probably the only traffic broadcaster to get lost on his way to work when one early morning they closed the M25 and he got lost in the diversion!
Paul also spent many years as a club and mobile DJ and has accumulated a large collection of vinyl LP's which started with Sergeant Pepper's and The Best of the Beach Boys both gifts from his mother in Christmas 1967.
Recently Paul has been heard on various internet stations and as presenter with The Album Zone.
Today, Paul says "Working for Radio Caroline is a dream come true".
13:00 - Bob Lawrence (Sitting in)
It is fair to say that I've "been around a bit" as far as radio is concerned.
Like many of my generation, I did some land-based pirate radio but my ... More >> first proper show was on hospital radio when I was just 14. I left school and went to Goldsmith's Art College, but it was always going to be a temporary stay. I wanted to work on Radio Caroline and, eventually, somebody left and I took their place, that was in the summer of 1978. I stayed with the station until our ship Mi Amigo sank in 1980. From Caroline I did a whole load of stuff on land: Greenwich Sound, BRMB Radio, Beacon, Signal, Buzz and ended up doing what I do for a living now which is a voice over artist appearing on countless radio and TV commercials, corporate videos and the odd TV show too.
Caroline called in 1999, this time they asked me!
We negotiated a deal for me to return to present a weekly Sunday lunchtime programme. If I remember correctly, the negotiations went something like this: Them: "Do you want to come back?"Me: "Yeah."
Them: "Good. Start next week, then." Me: "OK."I stayed until June 2013, although my show is still broadcast on Caroline. In fact, I am proud to say that I belong to the small band of Caroline presenters who have broadcast over five consecutive decades (Nigel and I still argue about which of us was the first voice on Caroline in the 80s and which was the last in the 70s).
You can read my full biography here.
16:00 - Jerry Wright
From a very tender age, Jerry tuned into Radio Caroline on his dad's portable Eveready Valve Radio and Westminster Radiogram and has been infected wit ... More >>h the radio bug ever since. He joined Hospital Radio Maidstone in the 70s, and approached a number of stations looking for work. After working as a Volunteer Programme Assistant and Tape Reclaimer at BBC Radio Medway in Chatham Kent (now BBC Radio Kent) in 1981, Jerry scored a job working as Ships DJ on the Olau Finn and Olau Britannia MK1 for Olau Ferries Sheerness UK to Vlissingen NL which was the nearest he got to legally to playing music on The North Sea.
Jerry started with Radio Caroline in January 1986 with Kevin Turner, Peter Phillips, and David Andrews, Andy Johnson, Fergie McNeil, Nigel Roberts and Ad Roberts and Ferry Eden to name but a few. On his very first day on the Ross Revenge very nearly poisoned the crew with a round of coffee made from "Sea Water" by mistake, and got bitten on the ankle by "Raffles" Peter Chicagos dog who hated people running about on the ship.
After a final stint at sea on the Ross in 1990, Jerry joined Mellow 1557 in Frinton on Sea, and has been heard on Invicta FM/Supergold, KFM, TLR, Medway FM, European Klassik Rock, CTFM, KMfm, a brief stint on land-based Radio Caroline and the re-imagined EKR from Maidstone. In 2003 Jerry became the Late night voice of SW London spending 17 years at 107.8 Radio Jackie.
You can now catch Jerry Live on Radio Caroline at 4pm every Saturday.
19:00 - Lee Shuttlewood
Born and brought up in the village of Great Baddow, not far from the birthplace of radio in Chelmsford, Essex, Lee developed a keen interest in music ... More >>at an early age, and followed in the great tradition of many a young Caroline listener before him, and often running down the batteries of his transistor radio by falling asleep whilst listening to it under the covers.
On leaving school he trained first as a body repair technician at a local car main dealership, before going on to become a Glassblower. Initially, and quite aptly making vacuum tubes for broadcast and industrial applications, before moving onto the world of electrochemical sensors.
Lee first joined Radio Caroline in 2004 having responded to a request on the Horizon Magazine website for volunteers to help prepare Ross Revenge for the AM broadcast from the Cruise Terminal at Tilbury, Essex, and has been a part of the Ross Revenge restoration crew ever since, putting the body repair and mechanical skills learned all those years ago to good use once again.
His first time on air was at during an overnight broadcast from the Cambridge Rock festival in 2006, and has since taken part in broadcasts from Ross Revenge, as well as other outside broadcasts from Earls Court and the British music experience at the O2 in Greenwich, as well as more recently standing in for other regular Caroline presenters.
22:00 - Phil Meek
Phil was born and bred in the Royal Forest of Dean.
How did he get into Radio? – I have asked myself that question; it should be what are you d ... More >>oing in Radio!! I suppose the answer is when my local BBC station was looking for assistants I went along to help with Sports Commentary, I have reported from Henley Regatta, and the National Rowing Championships in Nottingham and Strathclyde, doing a race commentary while riding a bicycle along the tow path. And then along came Caroline, as a young lad I always wished I could have been involved, and now I am very lucky to be.
When and why he you first join Caroline? –I have been a listener since 1964, yes really that long, I started listening after reading an article in the Coventry Evening Gazette while on holiday at my cousins. To fully answer the question, after I visited the Ross in Rochester & Tilbury. I thought this Ship needs a make over and a clear out, I have some free time, offer your self..The rest is a very tiring history
I love listening to New Music and telling people about it, so Radio Caroline would seem an ideal outlet, but I do go back in time to listen to my old stuff as well.
00:00 - Phil Meek
Phil was born and bred in the Royal Forest of Dean.
How did he get into Radio? – I have asked myself that question; it should be what are you d ... More >>oing in Radio!! I suppose the answer is when my local BBC station was looking for assistants I went along to help with Sports Commentary, I have reported from Henley Regatta, and the National Rowing Championships in Nottingham and Strathclyde, doing a race commentary while riding a bicycle along the tow path. And then along came Caroline, as a young lad I always wished I could have been involved, and now I am very lucky to be.
When and why he you first join Caroline? –I have been a listener since 1964, yes really that long, I started listening after reading an article in the Coventry Evening Gazette while on holiday at my cousins. To fully answer the question, after I visited the Ross in Rochester & Tilbury. I thought this Ship needs a make over and a clear out, I have some free time, offer your self..The rest is a very tiring history
I love listening to New Music and telling people about it, so Radio Caroline would seem an ideal outlet, but I do go back in time to listen to my old stuff as well.
01:00 - Top Fifteen Replay
A repeat of the Top 15 Show first heard yesterday morning at 9am.
02:00 - Continuous Caroline Music
A selection of music from the past five decades
06:00 - Clive Derek
Following a stint on the Voice of Peace in Israel Clive relocated to Ireland and was jointly responsible for the much loved 80's 'super pirate' ABC Ra ... More >>dio, where many Caroline presenters laid their hats during shore-leave from the Ross Revenge. Since the late 80's he has been involved in radio station senior management and a number of influential radio training initiatives.
These days he is a qualified trainer and radio industry consultant and works for leading broadcasters at home and throughout Europe. Clive grew up listening to Radio Caroline in the 1970's and although he has been heard for a number of years on many of our commercial spots, this is his first regular slot on the schedule. He says his show will feature many "Caroline Classics" but he also looks forward to playing some of the many quality new tracks on the legendary Radio Caroline - Europe's first album station.
09:00 - Top Fifteens With Graham Bannerman
A Caroline listener's music selection
10:00 - Pat Edison
Born in Croydon, South London, Pat was smitten by the radio bug 14 years later whereby he was forced to launch his own station via a pair of walkie-ta ... More >>lkies. His parents, sisters and the cat may have been his only listeners, but it was a start.
A while later he moved onto landbased pirate radio, firstly with the legendary Radio Jackie, then Radio Kaleidoscope which gained a reputation of being one of the most regular and professional pirates in London.
After Kaleidoscope closed in 1976 some of its staff set up a radio service at The London Hospital, Whitechapel and Pat spent many years there as presenter, engineer and later programme director.
In 1996 he spent some time finding out about life outside radio, however the pull of radio was too much, and after 5 years in the wilderness he returned to radio as part of the Radio Caroline team. Pat can currently be heard on Monday, Thursday and Sundays mornings 10am - 2pm.
Pat has also presented for the present day Radio Jackie in South West London, and a number of Restricted Service Licence stations and is currently working as a web and app developer.
14:00 - Martin O'Brien
Martin was born and bred in Cork, Ireland.
17:00 - Ray Clark
After a number of boat trips out to the North Sea in the 70's and 80's Ray eventually stayed and broadcast on Caroline 558 as Mick Williams – a ... More >>name he'd 'borrowed' from a friend.
Since then he's enjoyed a successful career in radio, that continues to this day, but now he's more selective about where he works.
Ray has been involved with several radio stations as presenter, running some, winning the licence for one of them, producing documentaries and gaining a few industry awards
He is one of the few people to have presented the breakfast show on 'pirate', commercial, American and BBC radio.
19:00 - Andrew Austin
Andrew says that radio was always the main entertainment medium during his childhood, being introduced to both music and drama by his mother. But it w ... More >>as whilst listening to the great broadcasters on the offshore radio stations of the 1960s that he made up his mind that he wanted to join them, much to the chagrin of his parents whose hopes for future employment did not include becoming a radio DJ on a boat!But radio would have to wait as Andrew actually became a salesman, but still spent much of his spare time listening to Radio Caroline whilst collecting many of the records he'd heard being played. Many years later his search for business took him to Southend where to his surprise he found the Ross Revenge moored at the end of the pier. He later volunteered his services to Caroline where he was asked to organise some revenue from local businesses to cover the cost of a Restricted Service License for a low power special broadcast.When Caroline's satellite era started from the Maidstone Studios, Vinters Park at the end of the 1990s Andrew was asked to do some light engineering and answer the phone. This led to his first show as a presenter after somebody else failed turn up and he has been with the station ever since. He concludes 'I was smitten, and to this day am privileged to be working for Radio Caroline, even though it took me thirty years to achieve my ambition!'
22:00 - Countdown with Rob van Dijk
