{"id":10566,"date":"2014-08-19T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10566"},"modified":"2014-08-19T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T12:01:15","slug":"bbc-radio-4-extra-the-first-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/bbc-radio-4-extra-the-first-pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Radio 4 Extra: The First Pirate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RadioNormandy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The First Pirate<\/em><\/a> is the title of a Radio 4 Extra–an interview with\u00a0Les Woodland who tells the story of Captain Plugge<\/a>, founder of Radio Normandy, the first station to take on the BBC.<\/p>\n

(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Capt Leonard Plugge was the driving force behind Radio Normandy in the early 1930s. He created the International Broadcasting Company in 1931 as a commercial rival to the British Broadcasting Corporation by buying airtime from radio stations such as Normandy, Toulouse, Ljubljana, Juan les Pins, Paris, Poste Parisien, Athlone, Barcelona, Madrid and Rome. IBC worked indirectly with Radio Luxembourg until 1936. World War II silenced most of Plugge’s stations between 1939 and 1945.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to listen to The First Pirate<\/em>\u00a0which will be broadcast on Thursday, August 21st 2014 at\u00a005:30, 12:30, and 19:30 UTC and Friday August 22 at 1:30 UTC.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The First Pirate is the title of a Radio 4 Extra–an interview with\u00a0Les Woodland who tells the story of Captain Plugge, founder of Radio Normandy, the first station to take on the BBC. (Source: Southgate ARC) Capt Leonard Plugge was the driving force behind Radio Normandy in the early 1930s. He created the International Broadcasting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3,305,297,288],"tags":[1347,3190,3189,852,3188],"class_list":["post-10566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-pirate-radio","category-radio-history","tag-bbc-radio-4","tag-captain-leonard-plugge","tag-leonard-plugge","tag-radio-4","tag-radio-normandy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Kq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4787,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/tuning-in-radio-4-documentary-on-the-history-of-early-radio-in-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":10566,"position":0},"title":"“Tuning In” Radio 4 documentary on the history of early radio in Britain","author":"Thomas","date":"November 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tuning In, a history of early radio in Britain, will be broadcast November 3rd on BBC Radio 4. 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