RIP Ronan O'Rahilly 20th April 2020

Tonight I cooked a BBQ whilst listening to Neil Young After the Gold Rush on Radio Caroline. What a fantastic flashback.

Ronan O'Rahilly founded Radio Caroline in 1964 initially to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom.

Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it was a pirate radio station that never became illegal because it operated outside any national waters.

Caroline is now available on 648 kHz AM, via internet and via DAB radio in some parts of the UK. See the streams guide here.

Radio Caroline broadcasts music from the 1960s to contemporary, with an emphasis on album-oriented rock (AOR) and ‘new’ music from ‘carefully selected albums’. On 1 January 2016, a second channel was launched called Caroline Flashback, playing pop music from the late 1950s to the early 1980s.