Mike Davies

Haverfordwest, United Kingdom

My first real memory of listening to the radio, and being fascinated by it, was as a 10 year old when I first heard the likes of Tony Blackburn, DLT and Johnny Walker on BBC Radio One. In early 1974 I took possession of a Sobell Fidelio radio which had a special band reserved for Caroline 199 and Luxembourg 208. I heard Radio Northsea International on this radio one night. A year later I started buying Record Mirror on a regular basis. There was a lot of coverage of the offshore radio stations in that UK music paper and after following the various clues within articles and small ads at the back I started listening to Radio Caroline in Autumn 1975. That began my love affair with offshore radio. In later years I would go on to work for both the Voice Of Peace and Radio Caroline, and made occasional appearances on the Dutch Radio 819.