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Currently in our rockumentary slot, we're running a series a documentaries about offshore pirate radio, and it's proving popular with listeners. We're so glad you're enjoying it.

This weekend, having completed our look at Radio London, we begin the Radio England story. Backed by some of the Texans who originally invested in Radio London, many of the existing operators were concerned about what Radio England and Britain Radio's arrival would mean in 1966. While giving some British broadcasters their first opportunity, it failed to challenge the major stations on the air.

We’ve had a terrific response to the Radio London story, which we’ve been running for the last four weeks as part of our series on offshore radio.

In this weekend’s rockumentary slot, we’ll bring you a programme referenced in the final part of that documentary. It’s called “their final hour” and was the last thing to be broadcast on Radio London on 14 August 1967 before they closed down due to the Marine offenses Act coming into force at midnight.

It’s Jonathan Mosen, dropping in to tell you about our next Rockumentary which starts this weekend.

We’re in the middle of a series of documentaries about the fascinating world of offshore radio. This week, we begin a series about what in my opinion is the best pop music station ever created, Radio London. With American jingles and presentation techniques with a British sensibility, Radio London was the home to many true legends of British radio, including the remarkable Kenny Everett, who started his career there.

It can be argued that the words icon and legend are overused these days. But they are an appropriate way to describe Tony Bennett, who died on Friday in his home city of New York just short of his 97th birthday. This gifted vocalist first recorded, under a different name, all the way back in 1949, and he released his most recent album of new material in the 2020s. He broke numerous Guinness world records and received many awards and accolades.

Users of Google Assistant products will be aware that for some time, Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape have offered Google actions. This allowed Google Assistant users to use a phrase like, “Ask Mushroom FM to play” and voila, it would play.

Google has taken the decision to retire these actions from their product line, and our actions along with all others are no longer available.

You can still play Mushroom FM and Mushroom Escape by asking the Google Assistant to play them on TuneIn.

Our Alexa skills continue to rock the world.

There are times in life when something so impactful happens, you know you’ll always remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. Listening to what I thought was a routine interview with Sir Paul McCartney about Beatles memories, only to have him casually mention that there’s a new Beatles single coming out this year, is one such moment for me.

This weekend in our rockumentary slot, we begin playing a series of documentaries that we’re sure will be fascinating to many of our listeners.

Many of us love the medium of radio, and that’s why we either listen to or participate in Mushroom Fm. There’s something about the connection between broadcaster and listener, and there’s a special something about the music from the decades we feature here on Mushroom FM.

We hope you enjoyed hearing the Elvis Presley Story over the last 13 weeks.

Our rockumentaries continue this weekend with a two parter we haven't aired before.

In the History of Psychedelia, DAVID QUANTICK presents a 2-part documentary examining the changing face of psychedelic music, from the swirling shapes and sounds of the sixties to the retro-pop of the early nineties and today's eclectic dance scene.

You can hear this fascinating, and of course trippy musical history first at 2 PM Eastern on Sunday. It's repeated at 11 PM that evening.

On Thursday at 2 AM Eastern and repeated again at 2 Pm Eastern, join me for a tribute to Tina Turner, who has died aged 83. Her influence is immense. She paved the way for women in rock and roll. She overcame adversity and abuse to blossom as a solo artist. Most of all, she contributed to the soundtrack of our lives.

Learn about her humble beginnings and the upheaval in her early life, how she met Ike, how she got the name Tina Turner, the perception that she had become a nostalgia act after the couple divorced, and her incredible ascendancy as a solo artist in the 1980s.

Only on Mushroom escape:
http://www.mushroomfm.com/escape
From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 4pm Saturday in NZ, 2pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described movies: Scarface from 1983, and The Three Musketeers from 2004.
Scarface is a 1983 American crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by Oliver Stone.