A rocking boat

We went to see "the Boat that Rocked" on the Manly cinema yesterday. It is not a great cinema, but if we do not support it we'll have to go into the city, which is hard work. The movie was good though. It is about 1966 in the UK. The BBC was the only legal radio station, and they did not think it was suitable to play rock-music. The result was that many pirate radio stations, based on ships that were anchored around the UK coast transmitted this music instead. This was not entirely legal, but not entirely illegal either until a BBC boss decided to make it properly illegal both for them to transmit and for people to listen. There is a lot of great music, and although it is all acting, it could well have been true. One of my favourite British DJs Johnnie Walker, started out as a DJ on Radio Caroline, which was based on a ship in the North Sea. After the ending of Pirate Radio Johnnie and most of the others got their own channel at BBC and many are still there.