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Alan Stroud explores the links between 1960s pirate radio stations and the Isle of Wight.

A new book by the Beatle describes the enormous influence the actress and her family had on a young Sir Paul

Busy, busy, busy. Has an autobiography ever been so jam-packed with such ceaseless activity?

Submitting... Strangely, of all those moments, the one which made me feel most nostalgic was a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip from the early 1970s. “I’m a destroyer, a batterer, a fouler,” he tells the chat show host. The audience applaud. “What are you all clapping for?” he responds, with that unmistakable glint in his eye. The chat show host was, of course, Michael Parkinson. Another affable, plain-speaking, tell-it-how-it-is, working-class-made-good northerner. Both men were born into mining backgrounds in 1935 and both sprang to fame in an age of increasing social mobility. ...

Hello, boomers’ radio. How did you end up in the culture wars? Alex Clark It was a rain-sodden Friday night at the end of another week of lockdown ennui and anxiety; what could be more soothing than pottering about, aperitif on the go, listening to some decent tunes? And hark! A brand new radio station to ring the changes, one promising not merely a schedule brimming with aural treats but one carefully curated to reflect the tastes, the sensibilities and the vitality of an entire generation. Boom Radio, launched last week on Valentine’s Day, set its stall out in uncompromi...