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Kiss Fm: The Inside Story of a London Pirate Radio Station's Path to Success: from Radical Radio to Big Business

Kiss Fm: The Inside Story of a London Pirate Radio Station's Path to Success: from Radical Radio to Big Business

The first book to document the long struggle of London pirate radio for a legal black music station, started by Radio Invicta in 1970

2011

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Grant Goddard

Teach your children well? : 1960s-1970s : vegetable-free adolescence, Camberley

“How often do you wash your face?” asked the doctor.

Jul 5

Teach your children well? : 1960s-1970s : vegetable-free adolescence, Camberley

Jul 5

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… and the award for car-crash Olympic flame live TV coverage goes to … : 2024 : La Premiere…

1995. The evening weatherwoman was standing in front of a wall map of the nation, reading the forecast for tomorrow’s conditions. In her…

Jun 26

… and the award for car-crash Olympic flame live TV coverage goes to … : 2024 : La Premiere…

Jun 26

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The genesis of black music radio in London … still unfulfilled : 1970–1984 : Radio Invicta 92.4

I only knew ‘Roger Tate’ (real name Bob Tomalski) through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on ‘ Radio Invicta’…

May 30

The genesis of black music radio in London … still unfulfilled : 1970–1984 : Radio Invicta 92.4

May 30

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Sacked by a boss desperate to steal my success : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London

It was a little after seven o’clock in the morning when the phone rang. Normally, I would already have been out of bed by that hour on a…

May 22

Sacked by a boss desperate to steal my success : 1991 : Gordon McNamee, KISS 100 FM, London

May 22

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Welcome to the terrordome : 2006 : Enders Analysis at Denton Wilde Sapte, City of London

The first of April proved not such an innocuous date on which to have started my new job. Within weeks, I began to wonder if I was the…

May 17

Welcome to the terrordome : 2006 : Enders Analysis at Denton Wilde Sapte, City of London

May 17

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Attempted murder on the Waterloo express? : 1971 : Bagshot railway station

Kapow! There was an explosion. Before I even grasped what had just happened, I could see I was covered with shards of glass. What was that…

May 9

Attempted murder on the Waterloo express? : 1971 : Bagshot railway station

May 9

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Walking on the Chinese glass ceiling : 2004 : FM 102 Radio, Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia

I was standing over the motionless body of my line manager. He was dead to the world, naked under the sheet on his bed. Neither my arrival…

Apr 30

Walking on the Chinese glass ceiling : 2004 : FM 102 Radio, Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia

Apr 30

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The day the (reggae) music died : 1981 : Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Matumbi

“ Bob Marley has died!” I exclaimed. Having switched on the car radio before starting the engine, one of Marley’s songs was playing on…

Apr 25

The day the (reggae) music died : 1981 : Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Matumbi

Apr 25

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Stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song : 1980 : Kate Bush, EMI Records & Metro…

“I’m SO sorry,” I grovelled to the petite musician on whose foot I had just accidentally trodden. We were stood side-by-side in the record…

Apr 15

Stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular song : 1980 : Kate Bush, EMI Records & Metro…

Apr 15

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Around the British Rail network in eight hundred minutes : 1976 : Durham University challenge

“Which bus goes to the University, please?” I asked. The man replied helpfully, but I could not understand a word he had said. He spoke…

Apr 2

Around the British Rail network in eight hundred minutes : 1976 : Durham University challenge

Apr 2

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