About this episode

The episode features discussions on pirate radio history and contemporary media issues with guests Miles Johnston and Eli James.

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.com We battled a few gremlins at the top of the show and compared notes on recent streaming hiccups between Rumble and YouTube before settling back into our usual rhythm. I talked through possible schedule tweaks for this programme and the growing FFT Radio line-up, then welcomed Eric Von Essex to chew over the week: elections, tech tantrums, garden fences and the strange comfort of bell-ringing and early-morning radio. Hour two featured broadcaster and researcher Miles Johnston, who traced a vivid, first-hand history of Ireland’s pirate radio era—Big D, Sunshine, Radio Nova—and how that creative wave, engineering craft and “Optimod” sound shaped broadcasting across these islands. From there we ventured into his current interests: frequency and field effects, the Bell, megaliths and interdimensional ideas, plus why so much of official history feels curated. In hour three, Eli James joined from Arkansas to discuss media capture, lawfare around groups like SPLC/ADL, demographic engineering, and the spiritual and cultural stamina required to build alternatives. A lively, occasionally provocative…

People in this episode

Host: Paul English

Guests: Miles Johnston, Eli James

Topics covered

• pirate radio
• media capture
• history
• technology
• cultural stamina
• demographic engineering

Keywords

• pirate radio
• media
• history
• Ireland
• technology
• cultural stamina
• demographics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Radio Soapbox, FFT Radio, SPLC, ADL

Books & works: Big D, Sunshine, Radio Nova

Places: Ireland, Arkansas

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