The new beginning ....

Our original research began in the Nineteen Sixties, and when Don Pierson gave us his financial and legal archives, we thought that we understood the story of offshore broadcasting. Then along came 'Radio Man' and it undid everything we thought that we knew about Radio Caroline. Out of that discovery came the following article to which we are now awaiting publication of part two.

As a result of that discovery we have refocused our attention upon four people: Charles Orr Stanley, Alfred Nicholas Thomas; the son of C.O. named John, and designer Alan Bednall. From this line-up we can go from the birth of British broadcasting to the birth of Radio Caroline. Here is the first article in the present series ....