 Tom Lodge - DJ Caroline North 1964-1966 Caroline South 1966-1967 |
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Tom Lodge - DJ Caroline North 1964-1966 Caroline South 1966-1967 |
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Tom Lodge was born in Liverpool but was taken to the United States when he was four. After completing his education, he and an American Indian set out on two year expedition into the frozen of the Arctic where his life was saved by a timber wolf, whom he named Mohair Sam. Upon returning to North America he took a job as a cowboy on a ranch in Alberta, Canada where he wrote his book ''Beyond the Great Slave Lake". Tom then became a DJ with the Canadian Broadcasting Company for whom he came to Britain as a freelance broadcaster. He joined MV Caroline in 1964 just before she sailed North and stayed with her off the Isle of Man. At the end of 1965 Tom transferred to Radio Caroline South as chief DJ in an effort to change the south ship's sound to more or less the up tempo carefree sound of the North ship. Broadcasting was definitely in Tom's blood....his grandfather was Sir Oliver Lodge who played a considerable part in the development of wireless telegraphy. |
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| Tom with remains of "Mohair Sam". |  |
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Tom on the air at Signal Radio, Stoke on Trent | |
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