Are Ferries and Biscuit Tins to Thank for Pop Music? | Pirate Radio Engineers @ScienceMuseum
Are Ferries and Biscuit Tins to Thank for Pop Music? | Pirate Radio Engineers @ScienceMuseum
Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
If you listen to anything between pop, soul and grime, British Radio Pirates from the 60s - 00s likely played a role in getting those rhythms out of your speakers today. Join Pyers Easton, a former Pirate Engineer, as he takes us back to the 80s—the heyday of pirate radio that shaped the British broadcasting industry as we know it.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:42 Part 1 Engineering a Pirate Radio Station
15:39 Part 2 Community of Pirate Radio
19:24 Part 3 Legacy

Thank you to The Pirate Archive (https://www.thepiratearchive.net)

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Maps: OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org/copyright)
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