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the salted and again that will the fight between israel and the countries and during the wall a took his sheep to the 4th of neil, the 4th of a 4th aid and broadcasted the messages for peaceful people. stuff of the woman in think with the bullying and speak with our deal. but he said it was like, it was realistic because he's equal. see the massage in the plains and the the plane are being heated and falling to the sea and everything was killing the other, but they didn't touch him. they didn't touch the votes for face after the war. return to broadcast again. have you got permission to go further canal? not yet, but i never ask religion. they weren't. i wouldn't let you go through last time.

why would they change their minds now? i think the better climate right now, and i think what we're doing right now is really the, then it's of people, the people effort. it's a gesture of goodwill with flowers. they are long be remembered young. we're at the day of a lot of violence. maybe we can help change my presenting birth control. this is been a minion piece, banner minion, piece barbara, april alpha, charlie to remain andrew immediately. okay, we're leaving now. thank you very much. and good morning. ah,

caroline could have got involved with politics in 1970 the station did, but only for a short while, but most of the time it was here just to play music. the chances are, had the station really got political, had overstepped the mark. then as had happened in 1970, it would have been jammed by, by government, probably any government. and they, you know, if you are an embarrassment to the government, they do the utmost to close down. caroline knew how far to go, but didn't overstep that mark. and until the eighty's, when the dutch invaded the ship, they were reasonably safe. we kept ourselves to our selves and just played the music. and that was the intention. clive gregson, an american car, sounded very much like well spent 30 minutes away from age and we have colleen glen

stone, late summer, 989. a ship came out from england and spoke to this ship and said, we want you to shut down and switch off, go away. and if you don't, and something else is going to happen, which is far more severe than our am nice request. and of course, the law of the sea is you can't board a ship in international waters unless you're invited to do so. so our thought was, well, then what they have in mind. they went to the ship because international law says you can't do that. the next day, a very much larger ship horizon tied up alongside and it came from holland. and on board with dutch police and dutch coast guards. and in holland the dutch police and coast close, they were guns, and there were a lot of them. so they climbed on board and nobody's going to confront the uniform

man with a gun. and so they took the ship over. now my contention is i had no right to do so because they had no authority. because you are only a policeman in the country where that power is awarded to you. the 2nd you are in a foreign country or no country, you know the policeman anymore. be your man with a gun. and they wrecked and stripped every part of the ship during the course of the day and took all of our equipment away and left the ship behind. but the crew were invited to give up and go ashore and they said, no, we won't, we'll stay. and we start all over again. what happened? and this is a nice, wonderful moment for me really to come back out on the caroline ship into the studio. play wonderful all vital. again. this is what radio is all about. it was a great adventure. yes, i was aware that i was breaking the law, but i don't make a habit of breaking the law. and if the worst thing i ever doing, my life is sit on a rusty ship and play a beatles record. i haven't got much of

a problem with that. my conscience is clear. i wasn't that keen on rough weather out at sea. we did have some really, really, really rough weather, but equally we had black. com days. beautiful, sunny days. so people tell you to go on cruises, we're going to ship like music sitting in the sun. when the sun shone, it was lovely with friends or doing the same thing. they all wanted to be part of radio. caroline, unless if you work for radio station, why not work for one? with the most famous name in the world, we will use to discuss the music that we played. so the great thing with everybody who was on the ship was if you can imagine a radio station on land, you know, somebody comes through the door through the program, go home. now the person comes through the door to the problem. here we do what we're doing, a record library, you know, we used to sit around and talk about music, you know, what goes into music when new records used to come out to the ship. we used to get a lot of new records every week being sent to us even though the record companies

weren't supposed to. but i did because they knew where the listeners, you know, we actually listen to what the listeners want as well. that's what that was. the beauty and the success of caroline, it was the listeners controlled us. we controls the listeners. beauty of the station. a be paid, the hill of the price being jade. and i visited him in jail. not for the radio station of us for his so called illegal meetings with p o. leaders soon after it became thanks god legitimated to me to be a low people. but in this stage, it was still is not ready as after the brain was against the piano, is it was not ready to to, for such a step. he understood very

early on. the piece with egypt was not an issue. the main issue of peace with philistines and a, although the voice of pieces no change because of that visit his own personal activity became more focused on the settlements and he'll get by the tories, the meeting with a pillow. so i think that it was for his credit that he was a moment of achievement for him. not that he contributed directly to this piece, but he understood many of the israelis did not understand that this was not the whole picture that it was still a lot of work to be the well, it's a huge thing with caroline when everything's going well, something real bad happens and when everything seems so terrible that there's no

means as means of possibility of rescuing it in something good happens. but the worst time was in, in round 990. when we absolutely ran out of money, we couldn't grow across the signal. the ship was in the middle of the ocean. the living conditions were appalling. nobody should have been expected to live like that. but people didn't live like that because it meant some power to radio caroline, so continued, and then the ship was shipwrecked. in a part of the coast where if you get shipment where you just die and it is part of the coast were 250 ships have been shipwrecked and no one is survived. and no ship is survived. when i had this is in the process of happening, me having putting people on the ship, encourage them to be there. i thought, well this is good. i'm probably going to be responsible for the death of 6 people.

with all the repercussions it will follow up to that. but astonishingly, in, thanks to the british rule, therefore, there were no death and only 6 crew rescued without injury. then it seemed absolutely certain the ship would just be lost, gray cart, but st. but it was the only ship of $250.00, which was rescued and brought in. sure that point we had a ship, but nothing else. so our choice was okay, you know, we've given it a best shot. this will go and get on with our lives or you know, i think we start over again and we did the news . 2 with my 9 year old in the station now exactly 9 o'clock,

the u. l. o v a lunch time boulevard caroline. ah, david and goliath. you know, you have big brothers. the government trying to stop is all the time. and to be fair, they could have stopped bits, but we had a lot of friends within the government. lot friends within the police have just turned a blind eye. cuz since i've been working on shore and i worked for legal radio, when i 1st came ashore, i remember talking to a policeman and he simply things to do than changed the jays up and down the river . we got criminals to catch. you will, you know, as soon as playing music and most of the police and most of the government dysentery anyway. i think that's what kept us going. the fact that we shouldn't have been there, but we were doing no harm. anybody who worked on the station, if we were doing any harm, we would have done it. that was it that we were entered, we were there to entertain and not not to do any harm. and we brought about

a change in radio and british radio. and again, that was, you know, that was what you, what we were therefore to change british radio. we've done it. but we're still here . you know, we've got the license now and that's why we're sitting in, you know, if you like a river, not in international waters anymore, but still doing it on the ship to say thank you because there's so many list thinks i caroline's not caroline unless it comes from a ship. so for 2 weeks, you know, for a weekend every month we do everything from the off the original radio. caroline's ship saying to me, amigo, i got a call to say will you come at work for the voice of pace and i feel, yeah. and then are initially when i was going to go out there for 3 months, but enjoyed it so much that you know, i stayed to 9 months and we used to broadcast them from the town of 8th. but we, we broadcast the whole at the middle east. so again, we kept everything very short, very sharp, because a lot of people can understand english, could they, you know,

so, and that was why we kept the billings ratio out there that play pop music. because at the time i was there 980 at the time i don't think there was many stations playing. so pop music. and that was what we used to do with the baby said doesn't float. so that's the 1st difference. but you still work with people who are committed to bringing good radio, but it's a different sort of radio to the caroline radio here on the ship. your. it's part of your life. you live on the ship, you eat on the ship, you sleep on the ship. you are part of the ship's crew. whereas with a baby, say, you wake up at home, you can, you car, you drive to work, you do the program. you go home again and once you've got friends there and the guys, they are very friendly and a nice guys to, to work with that as, as around the world, any radio station. but you don't sleep with them. you don't eat with them. you don't talk with them other than with your program because it's time to go home

again. and that's the difference with caroline. you. you live sleep 8 radio on the me amigo, which was the one of the original radio caroline ships, the one that sank in 1980. that was probably the most challenging because literally, every day it was so all with the ship will use the spring leaks. you know, so technically the boat was thinking every day and we like, well, you know, there's water coming in, pump it out, but it just became like one of those daily occurrence. so you just got used to it. but there was one particular night where at the time you think to yourself, yeah, it's windy, it's rough. now we're in a situation here where, you know, like we were walking around in the record library on the b amigo, which was downstairs and the water level was coming out. so about here on the legs . so, you know, it was like, do we call a life boat down? we call a life that we thought. now let's, if we can get the pump started, we got the pump started, pump the ship out, very cold. but then she started to ride again and didn't take, we still take

a water, but we are pumping water faster than we were taking it. and we used to fill the holes in the bottom of the ship with a piece of wood, not going through the holes that made it bigger, stopped the water then concrete around. but that was all why patching up the boat. and i suppose the next day that was myself, geico, pretty chicago, was our chief engineer. and another guy we sat at the mess room table. and we actually said that was probably the closest we've ever come to losing our lives. but at the time, you didn't realize it, you know, because there's so much going around and you had, you don't have time to think about it. but even thinking back to, to it now you think that was probably the closest law for me to come to lose your life. i just love it. the chances you heard that for the very 1st time on this radio station many years ago, the kind of smith group because they're not here on our live. you know, when you turn on the radio on and suddenly a radio last,

so the speak or do you think while i haven't heard this for ages and ages and ages, this is that moment for the whole latitude is changed over the years. following on from what radio caroline started, it's taken an awful long time. i mean, here we are now with a license with a government license, but why couldn't they have given that to caroline 50 years ago? it just seems that they were worried about something that really they shouldn't have been worried about. and perhaps that's the way with governments around the world they, they worry that they haven't got control. and the government didn't have control of caroline. but i had nothing to fear because we, we really wanted to play music that we weren't spies, we want terrorists, we weren't bad guys. we just wanted to stay on a ship and play music and some politicians. some politicians still even today find that hard to understand. that's the other thing. it didn't matter how bad the weather got. you never felt unsafe on the ship, even on the me, amigo. you never felt unsafe on the ship? you thought the so if we,

because we call it the lady and you say the ladies looking after she's looking after is and again, something we often talk about in the history of caroline, which was 964 to 2019. nobody's been, you know, seriously her or even worse killed yet. we've had a few injuries, but that's it. you know. and when you consider what we went through to keep a radio station on the earth is remarkable. very good morning this morning, madam special. good morning to sunshine. a sick so on tuesday morning, the 10th of june. 1980. those are legal piece is the word and the voice is peace is the station 24 hours a day. it was quite crazy because the whole project of a be was finally was there was a very said end to very sad ending, personally, his live and in a very, very said way lonely for gotten in

a wheelchair is i didn't appreciate this man as he deserved and also the sheep go into financial aid. travers. nobody was there to help him. there was all slow and everyone saw that there will be peace without a be not that which was obviously not true. and in a certain stage, he gave up and made the sheep sink. there were very few listener, then it was all dying. and it's a very, very sad story. i mean, it's a, it's a good story, a good the openings and many good years. but the end, both of the both and of a be both very tragic, very said and shouldn't be like this. it should have been different. they would know to appreciate the heroes of peace and not only heroes of war. then able

to be more remember. and he's bo, to may be broadcast until today. the we're going to also done a for too many times work on the ship of the go do while a lot of the go to prison, lost a lot of money. i lost all of the funds. i have i've been a ship ship has done the job, the radio station and the whole purpose was to bring the dupont. jesus isn't off of each other. and now this i've been talking that the government there was i think that by lodge it is

a lovely fairy tale with their unhappy ending air. a, b was a dreamer. he was not taking seriously enough as he deserved people liked his parties. people liked his own life. he was a bohemian, also, we men foods parties. he owned the restaurant. i mean, he was really a, a social project. but we need to get it go to politics and he was even elected for the apartment he was running for the farm and but it didn't take him seriously enough. and i wish that is, i would have taking him more serious than he take by the end of the day. it is one of those color, 4 aspects of the conflict. but unfortunately, it's not the story of success because we know how the both ended. we know how

a be and then most of them for working today. and whenever i think about a b and i think about him quite often, i must say. whenever i think about him, i feel deep sadness for the fake that not only he deserved more success between the re lease and the palestinians obviously deserved more people like a baby who really could have changed the picture. but never did a b as many, many friends. and finally, he was quite a lonely person. he had those and you will be parties in hilton every year to commemorate his flight to egypt. any had dinner at home almost every friday or every 2nd friday, which i attended and all the who's who came or so there. but as i said funded, he was the only ok, let's put this is a song we cannot possibly and without the song i don't i hear it.

ok we oh this is a song i think we should all sing or if you together the broadcast of the voice of peace more than 21 years. thank you all for all your support all the years. i thank you to every oh, be ah, a to be really or is there a well, here's into the murky world, a state sponsored spyware. and the discovery biologist era journalists,

06 technology. smartphone systems. is this, the new frontier? think about the sophistication of exports to breaking the phones. this is as soon as you find your phone on our the hello there. 3 are lots of hot central weather, as usual across the middle east. some areas of cloud and rain. having said that, with a little bit of crowd just around turkey, just around the black sea, eating over towards the caucasus and some wet weather. just letting out that i've got to stop to know the parts of pakistan, snow they're over the high ground said really it is about that $849.00 celsius in baghdad. well, into the mid 40 q a. and for the shamal continuing to blow some more lifted, dustin said, coming out tilbury qu wait, said he, since out of saudi arabia,

across here and carter, hot and dry down towards the southern end of the peninsula as well. and that dry weather stretches across the horn of africa. we have got a few showers just around the european highlands. and one or 2 showers, that just across parts of the democratic republic of congo, easing over towards the gulf. any that's where the majority of the west weather will be over the coming days. northern parts of nigeria office seeing some heavy rain from time to time. they're not too much right in the full cost across southern parts of africa. but we have got some showers, longest spells of right across the western cape and across the southern cave. and we'll continue to just drift in here as we go one through wednesday. and thursday, just wanted to share was for central mozambique the of a complex story without uttering a single word, liam,

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renters of next 7 drivel eggs, volume tow, drawn 1200 pages 3 loops and h stories of people nowadays is 11 using sub job. and i see where you told me where you can get a job. you're going to be happy. and so make your bills. i figured out to me comfortable what while, but i what i've been trying to get i need a lease and 1000 hours. that costs about 6 to 700 code transportation. i like to make enough a lease thing. also a one a month where i go, where i can do drawing inside and peace. you know, not to worry about. somebody has to wake me. i can come and go and i want to eat a good amount of sleep and i want to make enough money to last all year around

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