Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age

When the pirate radio operator Oliver Smedley shoots and kills his rival Reg Culvert in Smedley's country cottage on 21 June 1966, it is a turning point in the career of the outlaw radio stations that dotted the coastal waters of England.
Situated on ships and off-shore forts, these stations blasted away at the high-minded BBC's broadcast monopoly with the new beats of The Stones and The Who, and DJ's such as Screaming Lord Sutch.