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Radio A-Go-Go Kindle Edition

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A fictional pirate radio station starts broadcasting from a converted Flemish fishing boat anchored off Scarborough. Eighteen-year old disc jockey, Joe Barker, has a problem: childhood bullying has left him with a debilitating stammer. Joe, an assumed name, speaks fluently on air but clams up on dry land. Love of his life, Julia, doesn’t realise this. Time is running out for the pirates. Local MP Dan Witton is furious to discover his old playground enemy, Stan Metcalfe, is the man behind the station. Witton plots to sink the little ship and is drafting laws that will outlaw the pirates. Mystery American Ricky Johnson wants to help but has his own troubled past to deal with. Faced by Dan Witton’s raiding parties and storm force gales, disc jockeys Joe and Ricky and the crew battle on. Is free speech, rock and roll, and the summer of love doomed? Broadcasting from the rolling deeps of the North Sea, Radio A-Go-Go thinks she has has the answers.

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353 pages
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English
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12 Aug. 2021
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09C3W3W3S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Border Tales (12 Aug. 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2243 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 353 pages

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John Musgrave grew up in the north of England. After several years abroad - working construction in Germany, farming in Israel and soldiering in France - he returned to London, England and worked as a labourer, bouncer and barman before becoming a freelance journalist and PR agent. As an industrial editor he ran a national trade magazine.

His first book, a collection of short stories set in the Foreign Legion, Soldiers of the Heart, was published by Border Tales in 2019. Radio A-Go-Go, his first novel, is based on the pirate radio stations that formed a major part of many lives including his own. Set in County Durham and on the rolling deeps of the North Sea off Yorkshire, Radio A-Go-Go tells the story of the struggle to bring rock and roll to Britain. John lives quietly on the Welsh borders with his family.

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Mr. Robert J. Price

Could have been better.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2022

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Having listened to Radio 270 from July 1966 until August 1967, I was unsure about this book. I feel the story could have been better if it hadn’t relied on using 270 as a blueprint, even the cover is a adaptation of a well known photo. I felt that having it on a completely different ship would have been better and have it anchored off, say Newcastle. Reading it I was distracted by my own memories of 270 and Oceaan 7. The same the happened when reading Dave Cash’s book, where the station was based on the sister ship of the minesweeper Galaxy. Being a long book I admire the work that must have gone into it and the above comments are just a personal reflection of a young lad who lived just up the coast and remembers fondly that strong signal blasting from that little Dutch lugger off the Yorkshire Coast.

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Steve Mason

dissapointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2021

rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 November 2021

It’s great that for once someone’s set his novel in the county I grew up in. It reminded me of my teenage years, haring up and down dale to various gigs, parties and bevvies at the Black Bull, all the time telling my parents I’d only been to the Wolsingham youth club.

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Oh dear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2021

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