YouTube clips from Caroline days
Posted: October 8, 2008 Filed under: 1980s, Irish writing, New writing, non-Fiction, offshore, Publishing, radio, Radio Caroline, Radio presenting, Ross Revenge, Somewhere Down The Crazy River | Tags: BBC, books, Irish writing, North Sea, offshore, Pirate Radio, radio, Radio Caroline, Writing Leave a comment »The interview on WLR FM to promo the book went well, Geoff Harris was a very relaxing interviewer, and it was an enjoyable experience.
During the conversation Geoff mentioned that a couple of my TV interviews from the Caroline days are up on Youtube, which reminded me that I should link them from here.
The first is the BBC Daytime Live interview from March 1989, the behind the scenes story of which is told in the book. It’s a lovely piece, it nicely blends the history of the station from the 60s and 70s with our (then) current day operations in the late 80s, and features some lovely shots of the ship at sea. Watch it here.
The next one is one of the many news reports from the day in 1991 when the offshore dream ended, as the Ross Revenge ran aground on the Goodwin Sands and we all had to be rescued by helicopter.
In the interview, we are all wearing RAF flying suits, as the clothes we escaped in were sodden. Watch it here.
I’ll collect these together with other clips and pics on a page in due course.
Steve
