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London Posse MC, Rodney P (@RodneyP_UK) Presents The Last Pirates: Britain’s Rebel DJs Documentary Airing on BBC Four

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Following the critical-acclaim of his first step into the world of presenting documentaries with Hip-Hop World News, UK Hip-Hop veteran, Rodney P continues his work with Acme films to deliver another insightful documentary The Last Pirates: Britain’s Rebel DJs.

The documentary delves into the 1980s when a new generation of pirate radio stations exploded on to Britain’s FM airwaves. Unlike their seafaring swinging 60s forerunners, these pirates broadcast from London’s estates and tower blocks to create a platform for black music in an era when it was shut out by legal radio and ignored by the mainstream music industry.

In the ensuing game of cat and mouse which played out on the rooftops of inner-city London across a whole decade, these rebel DJs used legal loopholes and technical trickery to stay one step ahead of the DTI enforcers who were tasked with bringing them down. And as their popularity grew they spearheaded a cultural movement bringing Britain’s first multicultural generation together under the banner of black music and club culture.

Rodney P, whose own career as a rapper would not have been possible without the lifeblood of pirate radio airplay, this film also presents an alternative history of Britain in the 1980s – a time of entrepreneurialism and social upheaval – with archive and music that celebrates a very different side of Thatcher’s Britain.

Featuring interviews with DJs, station owners and DTI enforcers – as well as some of the engineers who were the secret weapon in the pirate arsenal – this is the untold story of how Britain’s greatest generation of pirate radio broadcasters changed the soundtrack of modern Britain forever.

The Last Pirates: Britain’s Rebel DJs Airs on Friday, September 29,  21:00 on BBC Four.

WATCH IT ONLINE FROM 11:00PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 29 HERE