Tom Lodge, who grew up near Painswick and later returned to Stroud in 1996 to live and work – helping at Stroud’s Radio Falcon station that broadcast from Brunel Mall. He died at 75 on 25th March 2012. Tom was the pirate radio stations breakfast show host after it launched and later became a programme director – output to an astonishing 23m listeners.

Hear excerpts from Tom’s show at: http://youtu.be/f3ArKbY_krc

A YouTube about Tom’s book ‘The Ship That Rocked The World’ (2010): http://youtu.be/SPZ0h6q2zSw

More Radio Caroline stuff: http://www.youtube.com/user/sloopjohnrb/videos

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