As a part of our live weekend (28-31 March 2025) we will be paying tribute to Johnnie Walker. Johnnie had been the patron of the Pharos Trust charity, which owns the LV18 and Radio Mi Amigo, for two decades. Duke Anthony will be presenting a special show at 4pm (1600GMT) on Saturday 29th March and has an exclusive interview with […]
Duke Anthony
Duke Anthony adopted his (non-hereditary) title in 1969 after listening to DJs such as Emperor Rosko, Tony Prince and Earl Richmond. Radio broadcasting was still a long way off for The Duke but he embarked on a long succession of mobile discotheque engagements over the next six decades. Having grown up listening to the pirates in the sixties it was […]
New Monday Schedule
Our Monday daytime schedule now looks like this: 0700 Radio Mi Amigo archive 0900 Kevin Dinnigan 1000 Gordon Bathgate 1100 Steve Jenner 1200 Ian Chambers Repeated 1300-1900 We hope this is your remedy for the Monday blues!
Paul Windsor
Paul said: “My earliest memories of radio was wondering how on earth they got all those singers and announcers (DJ’s hadn’t been invented back then) in that little square box. Come on, don’t mock. I was only knee high to an Elizabethan Tape Recorder! I began to get suspicious of the radio’s inhabitants when the musicians appeared never to miss […]
Pete Nightingale
Pete said: “I have been a DJ and Radio Presenter since the 1960s, beginning my career with land-based pirate radio stations and performing in disco clubs around London. Throughout the 1970s, I continued to work in disco clubs and took on agent roles for various outside broadcasts for radio stations. During this period, I also dedicated four years to Hospital […]
Kevin Dinnigan
Kevin began his music career in Sheffield, UK, stepping into the spotlight in the 70s as a Saturday night DJ at one of the city’s most popular nightclubs. After honing his skills at various pubs and clubs as a mobile DJ, he seized a golden opportunity and made the most of it. Following a successful two-year stint at the Genevies/Mona […]
Robin Dee
Robin Dee hosts 3 shows over the weekend on Radio Mi Amigo – Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Robin says, “It’s a pleasure to be here bringing you radio like it used to be in the good old days of offshore radio when the original Radio Mi Amigo broadcast to the UK and Europe from the MV Mi Amigo in the […]
Chris Cooper
Chris has been on the fringes of radio for a long time, starting with a hospital station in 1978, followed by landbased pirate radio. Offshore radio beckoned, with spells on the Voice of Peace from ‘Somewhere in the Mediterranean’ in 1987, and Radio Caroline from the North Sea in 1989/90. During the 1990’s Chris was involved in various Restricted Service […]
Gordon Bathgate
Gordon Bathgate has appeared on stations across the UK, Europe and the Republic of Ireland in his usual relaxed, inexpensive style. Gordon started off at Grampian Hospital Radio before working at various stations in Scotland including NECR 102 in Kintore and Waves Radio 101.2. He then worked for DLR 106 in Dun Laoghaire and Radio Seagull in the Netherlands and […]
Steve Jenner
Steve Jenner is a former ILR senior presenter and half of two brothers who were founding directors of two FM ILR stations covering Derbyshire’s Peak District and East Staffordshire. He claims to understand more about the listening habits of sheep than any other living person. As former radio and TV ‘talking head’ for a major language campaign organisation, he’s been […]
Ian Chambers
Ian has been a music lover and record buyer for longer than he cares to remember. It gave him the excuse to have been making radio for over 4 decades now, setting up and running both East London Radio and Barts Radio. He loves bringing wonderful memories to Radio Mi Amigo on the LV18, both the hits and excellent album […]