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A selection of music from the past five decades

Join Johnny Reece and friends for a wide selection of music from one of the largest album collections on the planet!

A selection of music from the past five decades

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 ... More >>under 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.

A Caroline listener's music selection 

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 Surre ... More >>y.

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".

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 ra ... More >>dio but my 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.

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 ... More >> decades, 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

Martin was born and bred in Cork, Ireland.

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 ... More >> are you doing 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.