Radio From the LV18

Number 1s of the 1960s
2024-11-18 09:00 - 10:00 (Europe/London) | Online via LV18 Radio Website, LV18 The Quay, Harwich, CO12 3HH, United Kingdom
Kevin Dinnigan presents his special show UK Number 1s of the 1960s on Monday 18th Nov at 9am GMT, repeated at 3pm the same day.

Radio London 60th Anniversary
2024-12-20 - 2024-12-23 | Online via LV18 Radio Website, LV18 The Quay, Harwich, CO12 3HH, United Kingdom
Radio Mi Amigo is proud to announce that we will be marking the 60th anniversary of Radio London’s first transmissions with four days of special live shows from our studio on board the LV18 in Harwich Harbour.
Our very special guest will be Keith Skues, a veteran of Radio London, Radio Caroline, Radio One and many many more!
Listen via our website 20-23 December for the special shows.

Our schedule is now available!
Radio London 60th Anniversary

We are grateful to a number of people who have made this event possible, including RadioLondon.co.uk and RadioFab.com

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We still need funds to recover from the arson attack on our ship in February 2024. If you can, please support our appeal.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/lv18-restoration-fund

Radio, Radio, with Norman Barrington
2024-12-26 09:00 - 12:00 | Online via LV18 Radio Website, LV18 The Quay, Harwich, CO12 3HH, United Kingdom
2024 has been a multi-anniversary. 60 years since the start of British offshore radio, 50 years since the loss of the Benelux offshore stations. It also happens to be 50 years since the Caroline Stonehenge festival, and the year I said finally farewell to the dear old Mi Amigo for the last time, after an eventful two years. Thus it is a significant anniversary for me too.

I am producing a special three hour program to mark the occasion. Likely the last program I shall ever make. It traces the early years, the influence of American radio on European radio especially through the ‘pirates’, with particular focus on 1964-1974, and of course my time which I know about the best.

I have called it “Radio Radio – A Personal Retrospective” it features the sounds and music of a golden age. Including the voices of Tony Allen, Chris Cary, Andy Archer, Robin Adcroft, Mike Hagler & Brian Anderson. Jingles galore of course.

It will be broadcast by Radio Mi Amigo on Boxing Day 26th December 0900-1200 repeated 2100-2400 GMT/UTC. This is a shared broadcast with Radio Seagull.

https://www.lv18radio.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/NORMAN-RADIO-RADIO-PROMO-A-45.mp3

Midway through the show (1030 & 2230) I have a tough music challenge that will test your grey cells and musical knowledge. NB This link won’t work before Boxing Day!
I shall provide the answers here on December 31st.

Norman Barrington

Live Weekend
2025-03-28 12:00 - 2025-03-31 19:00 | LV18 Lightvessel, The Quay, Harwich, Essex, Co12 3HH, United Kingdom
Radio Mi Amigo will be live from the LV18 over the long weekend of Friday 28th to Monday 31st March.
Friday 28th March
1200 Olly Kinvig “Late late Rock’n’Roll Breakfast Show”
1400 Ian Chambers’ Request Show
1600 Neon Nancy
1800 Duke Anthony
2000 Paul Windsor
2200 Rick Marks
2400 Diamond Dave Kent
Saturday
0700 Olly Kinvig “Rock’n’Roll Breakfast Show”
1000 Chris Cooper
1200 Tim Wardley
1400 Keith Skues
1600 Duke Anthony’s Johnnie Walker Tribute
1800 Rick Marks
2000 Ian Chambers
2100 Chris B
2200 Paul Windsor
2400 Diamond Dave Kent
Sunday
0700 Olly Kinvig “Rock’n’Roll Breakfast Show”
1000 Paul Windsor
1200 Duke Anthony
1400 Keith Skues
1600 Rick Marks and Chris Cooper
1900 Gnasher
2100 Kevin Dinnigan “UK number 1s 1970 to 1973”
2200 Tim Wardley “Sunday Night at Ten”
2400 Diamond Dave Kent
Monday
0700 Olly Kinvig “Rock’n’Roll Breakfast Show”
1000 Duke Anthony
1200 Stephen Foster
1400 Neon Nancy
1600 Rick Marks
Our first broadcast of 2025 has many important markers for us this year.
Not only is it the 61st anniversary of the birth of Pirate Radio as we know it and one year since we reopened after our devastating fire but it also offers us an opportunity to pay tribute to our late patron, Johnnie Walker, who sadly left this world on New Years Eve. Johnnie would have been 80 years old on Sunday 29th March.

Don’t forget that we can now also be heard via Amazon Alexa Smart Speakers!

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August live studio shows
2025-08-14 - 2025-08-17 | LV18 Lightvessel, The Quay, Harwich, Essex, Co12 3HH, United Kingdom
We’ll be broadcasting live from the LV18 between 14 & 17 August 2025 and have a full schedule planned!
Visit the ship during our live broadcast and meet the crew – keep an eye out for our special guests!

14 August 1967 Special
2025-08-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Online via LV18 Radio Website, LV18 The Quay, Harwich, CO12 3HH, United Kingdom
On 14 August 2025 Chris B presents a special 3 hour show with the new releases from that week in 1967 – the new releases that were being played as the Marine etc Offences Act was brought in.
9am to Midday Thursday 14 August 2025 and repeated at 4am-7am Friday 15th August.
Chris’s regular show is at 7pm every Friday & Sunday with a double repeat at 7pm on Tuesdays.

Pirate Radio Weekend 2026
2026-08-13 - 2026-08-16 | LV18 Lightvessel, The Quay, Harwich, Essex, Co12 3HH, United Kingdom
Radio Mi Amigo is broadcasting live from the LV18 during our special Pirate Radio Weekend 13 to 16 August 2026
We will have plenty of our regular DJs, plus guests, in our floating studio to mark the impact that pirate radio had on the UK social and music scene in the 60s and 70s.
Our show schedule is as follows, please note it is liable to change!
Thursday 13th August
Regular shows until 1200
1200 Olly Kinvig
1400 Neon Nancy with Girls, Girls, Girls!
1600 Chris Morgan – with tracks from the pirate years
1800 Duke Anthony – with the Radio London Fab 40 August 1967
2000 Paul Windsor with Film & TV Music from the Swinging Sixties
2200 Chris Cooper – with Mandy Marton and Rick Marks
0000 Radio Mi Amigo overnight
Friday 14th August 2026
0700 Olly Kinvig with Rock ‘n’ Roll Breakfast
1000 Chris Morgan – with tracks from the pirate years
1200 Stephen Foz Foster with guests Jack Monck & Simon Ashley talking Syd Barrett, Cambridge & pirates
1400 Duke Anthony – marking the closedown of Radio London 59 years ago and the reaction on Radio Caroline
1600 Rick Marks
1800 Mandy Marton
2000 Chris Cooper
2200 Paul Windsor with The Rock Machine – tracks from the rock & prog compilations from the late 60’s/early 70’s
0000 Dave Kent – He’s a living legend with 🏴‍☠️ credentials (and a few minidisks)!
0200 Radio Mi Amigo overnight
Saturday 15th August
0700 Olly Kinvig with Rock ‘n’ Roll Breakfast
1000 Chris Cooper with Pirate Radio Years – the 60s
1200 Duke Anthony – with recordings and from the day in 1967 when Radio Caroline South continued broadcasting despite the Marine Offences (Broadcasting) Act
1400 Tim Wardley – First hour is Ducktails “Wide Skirts & Rock n Roll”. Second hour will be “The day the music died”
1600 Chris B
1800 Mandy Marton
2000 Rick Marks
2200 Paul Windsor with Atlantic Records in the UK
0000 Dave Kent – only he knows what will happen!
0200 Radio Mi Amigo overnight
Sunday 16th August
0700 Olly Kinvig with Rock ‘n’ Roll Breakfast
1000 Chris Cooper with Pirate Radio Years – the 70s
1200 Rick Marks
1400 Tim Wardley – with Sounds of the Sixties
1600 Paul Windsor with Motown Memories
1800 Mandy Marton
2000 Duke Anthony – mellows whilst watching the sun set off the stern of the LV18
2200 Chris Morgan – with our closedown show for the live broadcasts
Regular shows from midnight

Please note!
Shows are liable to change due to unforeseen issues. We will update this page as soon as changes are known plus share them on our Facebook Page.
If you would like to visit the ship during the live weekend then we’re open to visitors 11am to 4pm daily. Please note that access to the studio is at the discretion of the DJ and broadcast team so may not be possible during your visit. There is limited disabled access on board the ship.
Updated Saturday 8th August 2026

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