Pirate Radio

40 Watts from Nowhere is the inspirational story of one woman with a passion, a lot of guts - and a radio transmitter in her bedroom closet. When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start a legitimate radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate radio gurus, Sue built her first transmitter in her hilltop San Francisco apartment and launched KPBJ, enlisting friends as DJs.

The Pirate Raiders, with the villainous Captain Bardoso in command, are employed by the vicious Captain Ramon to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy caballero, hoping to use her to trap Zorro. Battles on land and sea, flashing swords and booming cannon explode before your very ears in this exciting audio production.

AIRWAVES V: A Wayfarers Story is a retro-futuristic thriller set in the Central and Finger Lakes regions of New York State. It was Monday, a typical late spring morning, when Abby E. of Pirate Radio AM 63 began her 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on-air shift in the station hub of Elbridge. The “typical” didn’t last long, as three power plant explosions in the western part of the state manifested in rapid succession. More tragic events unfolded in the coming hours, accompanied by meticulously choreographed cell and power outages. And with those outages came a motor vehicle ban throughout the state...

Five action-packed, cosmic episodes span time and space from 2.2 billion years ago to the end of the Milky Way galaxy! The Crystal Core: After the events of Small Flowers, Mags and her pirate crew discover some of her telepathic octopuses are missing, and things in the outer planets are completely messed up—and it’s all Mags’ fault. The Hive: Everything goes swimmingly on Ceres, until the crew is attacked by predators who want to feed Mags and her friends to their babies. The Singing Spell: Celina’s memoirs recall some of her earliest adventures with Mags, including how Mags got ...

In this monumental historical novel of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Lev Arkady survives the murder of his entire family in the closing days of World War II. Rescued by the ultimate showman and huckster, Old Amos, a character as memorable as Falstaff, Lev survives by becoming the ultimate chameleon. Penny Fullerton lives the good life of a 1950s Los Angeles teenager, experiencing the early death of her parents, sexual awakenings, and young heartbreak. She and Lev meet for one glorious evening in Vienna. They will not see each other again for twenty-seven years. In the ...

Jiehong Wu, aka Stinky Pearson, is a deranged video game designer. To promote a new game release, he decides to have the entire continental U.S. suffer a blackout. Ten U.S. senators, each in possession of a “kill switch,” decide to help with the blackout. The senators are tempted by the lure of “New Money,” but what the senators don’t realize is that this New Money does not really exist. Abby E. and the entire Pirate Radio AM 63 staff follow Stinky’s travels as he makes his way toward her home with his sights set on her daughter, Amelia. Meanwhile, signs and wonders are seen and...

What a time it was. Suddenly, all across Nottingham, the UK's ninth biggest city, transmitters were crackling into life with another kind of voice, another kind of sound. In a way, we were back to the '60s. And in a way, we weren't. It all happened in the city of Robin Hood; but it could have been anywhere in the UK, where similar stories were being played out by like-minded individuals who were starting to realize that something was very, very wrong.... Make no mistake. This is the story of a revolution.

Pirate radio represents magical rebellion. Pirate radio signifies creative protest. Pirate radio can change the world. Pirate radio (unlicensed radio broadcasting) has played a historically significant though usually ignored role in the greater cause of freedom of the press; though today other forms of broadcasting may seem to have eclipsed it, we still need to honor and advance pirate radio in order to maximize freedom of the press.

A vintage 13-part dramatisation of Jeffery Farnol’s historical romance When 22-year-old Barnabas Barty, the son of a landlord and ex-prize fighter, unexpectedly inherits £700,000 from his uncle in Jamaica, he decides to fulfil his dream of becoming a gentleman. Leaving his father’s country...

Enjoy the late Dave Cash and his silky smooth voice as he takes you on a trip down memory lane, where two fingers were raised to the establishment and history was made. Dave was part of the first real British Pirate Radio station, where he was treated like a pop star, dabbled with drugs and lived a life far richer in experience than most. Once onboard, Cash partnered with Kenny Everett for the Kenny & Cash Show, one of the most successful of all pirate radio programmes.