Radio London – Big L Fab 40

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	Site Updated 19th August
	Congratulations to Ian 'Wombat' Damon who is celebrating an incredible 70 years of broadcasting Ian's voice is heard every week on Sundays and Wednesdays, during the Oldies Project's Fab Forties ************

"Thank you both for your dedication to LIL for all these years. You two are remarkable in preserving the memories and reputation of a great radio station.
Thank you so very, very much."

Mark Roman
August 14 2024

In addition to Mark Roman's message above, we are humbled to have received the following emails. They make 25 years of work on the Radio London website worthwhile.
August 14th again.... In the much quoted words of President F.D. Roosevelt, a date that will live in infamy... For our generation, those few short years of Big L's life were magic – and remain so thanks pretty much exclusively because of your dedication to the station, the folks who created her, and the wonderfully created times we shared. Thank you for keeping the memories alive.... Richard Rickard	From John Whelton, Radio London engineer Russ Tollerfield's brother in law. Well another year has gone by since BIG L was sadly silenced shortsightedly by those who knew very little about commercial radio. I recall that Saturday afternoon 57 years ago today when I was 17 as if it was yesterday. Thank you all for keeping the name alive and should anyone have any photos or stories of Russ, his sisters and I would appreciate them. John Whelton
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RADIO STATIONS
	*Tune in for everything you ever wanted to know about Radio London – 'Big L' 1964 - 67; the station, the DJs and the good ship Galaxy!*
	Sixties Offshore Scrapbooks Click left for Big L, click right for Caroline
	Caroline Flashbacks! Meet Bud Ballou, Keefers and the whole Caroline Sixties gang, see the 2004 and 2009 Reunion photos AND the Caroline charts.
	Radio Scotland – 242 Tartan radio waves were all the rage in the 60s!
	RNI A scrapbook from the original station and stories of the 1999 & 2000 RSLs
	Pirate BBC Essex In 2004, the Beeb emulated the pirates so well that they did it again in 2007 and 2009!
	Radio Luxembourg Memories of 'your station on the stairs'
	Jocks Offshore DJs are lost, found and remembered
	On Other Wavelengths Radio News and Views from far and wide, including Radio England and Britain Radio
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Seasonal fun aboard the offshore stations

	The Biggest Sixties Offshore Reunion, Ever! On 14th August 2017, over 100 offshore radio personnel gathered on a ship on the Thames to mark 50 years since the Marine Offences Act decided that even though they were entertaining a third of the UK population with music, what they were doing had to be made illegal...
	Offshore Radio Collection on YouTube In partnership with Ben Meijering, we're proud to present the YouTube channel, Offshore Radio Collection. See three of the biggest Offshore Radio events as if you were there! More info and links here.
	All the Offshore Reunions! The complete index to a host of great photos from reunions held since 1997

	Glamour Models! A collection of favourite ladies – models of the radio ships
	The 'Kneesflashes' archives What's been Happening over the past years
	Reliving the Sixties Sixties music will never die! Concert reports and more...
	Aylesbury's Local Hero John Otway Read about the 'two-hit-wonder' and how we 'assisted' at Abbey Road

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I want to send my thanks to you both for a really wonderful website. It's been over 10 years of wonderful news of offshore gems. You have both kept the interest of Offshore Radio alive, and it's magical – there is nothing in the whole of this world to beat it. I also believe that Offshore would have died if the website wasn't around with the amount of news items, the hard work behind the scenes and the time that you both put into it. No other site has the same dedication on the same scale as yours.

I hope you will keep the site going for many more years to come and I feel you both should be awarded the MBE for keeping Offshore Radio alive on the site and in our hearts.

Stephen Burnham

More Tenth Anniversary comments here!

"I could not possibly thank you enough for keeping the blood, sweat and tears fresh and alive. Without you, Radio London would merely be an ever-fading, occasional memory."

Radio London founder, Tom Danaher (died 2015)

"You have done an outstanding job in keeping the spirit of Radio London alive; I know my father would have been amazed and impressed that something he started over 40 years ago is still being talked about. Thank you, Mary, for all that you do."

Grey Pierson, son of the late Radio London founder, Don Pierson

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