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portada Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information age
Type
Physical Book
Year
2012
Language
English
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.8 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.27 kg.
ISBN
0393341801
ISBN13
9780393341805
Edition No.
1

Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information age

Adrian Johns (Author) · W. W. Norton & Company · Paperback

Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information age - Johns, Adrian

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Synopsis "Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information age"

When the pirate operator Oliver Smedley shot and killed his rival Reg Calvert in Smedley's country cottage on June 21, 1966, it was a turning point for the outlaw radio stations dotting the coastal waters of England. Situated on ships and offshore forts like Shivering Sands, these stations blasted away at the high-minded BBC's broadcast monopoly with the new beats of the Stones and DJs like Screaming Lord Sutch. For free-market ideologues like Smedley, the pirate stations were entrepreneurial efforts to undermine the growing British welfare state as embodied by the BBC. The worlds of high table and underground collide in this riveting history.

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