Black and White Pirate Show (1987)

The film explores why Pirate Radio has been a persistent feature of British Broadcasting since the early 1960's, including the sounds of Them, Otis Redding, Dusty Springfield and James Brown amongst interviews with Tony Benn, Tony Blackburn, Lepke and The Rankin' Miss P, with Freakie Dee spinning the music decks between the interviews. The film also discusses PCRL, People's Community Radio Link, which was a pirate radio station in Birmingham begun in 1985 as an attempt to quell civil unrest during the 1985 Handsworth riots.