Horizon Radio – Wireless Flirt

September 24, 2018August 31, 2019

Into the licensed era: Horizon Radio in Bray

By the autumn of 1989 I was pretty despondent about radio, having filled my teenage summers with pirate bliss only to see it snuffed out when the sector was finally regulated. There were a lot of unemployed former pirates in …

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