{"id":36643,"date":"2019-03-20T07:31:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36643"},"modified":"2019-03-20T07:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:31:25","slug":"video-the-last-pirates-britains-rebel-djs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/video-the-last-pirates-britains-rebel-djs\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The Last Pirates &#8211; Britain\u2019s Rebel DJs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pirates-UK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36644\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pirates-UK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pirates-UK.jpg 720w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pirates-UK-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pirates-UK-624x403.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Fahey, who shares a link to this BBC documentary about pirate radio:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Last Pirates Britain&#039;s Rebel DJs\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/238210759?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/238210759\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to watch on Vimeo.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who shares a link to this BBC documentary about pirate radio: Click here to watch on Vimeo.<\/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":[3781,3,305,297,304],"tags":[3079,3008,2183,4092,4093],"class_list":["post-36643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-pirate-radio","category-videos","tag-documentaries","tag-euro-pirates","tag-london-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9x1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2706,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/london-pirate-radio-documentary-offers-insight\/","url_meta":{"origin":36643,"position":0},"title":"London pirate radio documentary offers insight","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This documentary certainly touches on the motivation behind most pirate radio stations. 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