Radio programmes

An eclectic mix of laid back tracks across time and genres

A selection of music from the past five decades

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 ... More >> DJs on air - 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!

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 f ... More >>rom 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.

A Caroline listener's music selection 

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 ... More >>-talkies. 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.

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 te ... More >>am 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.

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 wo ... More >>uld be influenced 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.

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 ... More >>with 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 ... More >>, initially 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.