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.