RADIO A-GO-GO
It’s 1966 and RADIO A-GO-GO takes to the air broadcasting from a converted Flemish trawler anchored off the Yorkshire Coast. Pirate radio has seized popular imagination – teenagers, truck drivers and students listen round the clock.
Determined to bring free radio to his beloved north-east, Stan Metcalfe has acquired the old fishing smack, Zevende Zee and an American radio transmitter. Helped by wartime friends, a US army deserter and a schoolboy with a stutter, Stan sets sail for the Yorkshire coast.
Local MP Dan Witton is preparing legislation to outlaw the pirates and sees the new station as a personal affront. Maddened by his old playground enemy, Stan Metcalfe, Witton plans to sink the little ship. Faced by a hostile government, raiding parties and storm force gales Radio A-Go-Go takes on everything the establishment throws at her.
The right to free speech, rock and roll, and the summer of love looks doomed. Can traumatised war veteran, Stan and his merry band bring it off? Broadcasting from three miles off Scarborough, Radio A-Go-Go may have the answers…
RADIO A-GO-GO was published in 2021.
SOLDIERS OF THE HEART
Foreign Legionnaire, Alain Eschbon has painted a picture of La Marianne for the new Corsican banknote, but is the girl French? The authorities in Paris are concerned. Dragoon Raoul Belancoeur is sent to Calvi, Corsica, to find out. Is Colonel Henri Iver, head of 2REP, attempting a cover up? Does the Legion still look after its own?
Jean Gillot, a car thief on the run after the accidental killing of a mafiosi, certainly hopes so. Faced with being thrown out of the legion’s elite parachute regiment, Gillot fears being returned to the mainland. An unlikely plan by his commanding officer offers Jean a way out.
In other stories an ageing pirate radio disc jockey returns to the North Sea. In an elegy for a bygone era Ricky Johnson takes the microphone again bringing together the lost and the lonely
On the remote Scottish coast onetime Legion officer, Martin Calignac, runs an adventure training school. Journalist Stevie Kelso sets out to infiltrate the school as she confronts an age old quandary. Is life really sacred? Can a bunch of legion misfits lead Stevie back to life?
On the Welsh borders an unlikely goth-girl tries for Sandhurst with a little help from an old legionnaire-turned-poacher.
These short stories are set in the Foreign Legion, Scotland and Cornwall, reflecting the strange path pursued by the most unlikeliest heroes.
Soldiers of the Heart is the first book published by John Musgrave and draws on the author’s personal experience.