"A superb account of the rise of modern broadcasting." --_Financial Times_ 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
Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
โ Scribed by Johns, Adrian
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Year
- 2010;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 424 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0393080307
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