The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame: 70's Disc-Jockeys A -
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Tony Allan | 70s Disc-Jockeys A | Robin Adcroft | Paul Alexander | Tony Allan | Dickie Allen | Don Allen | Andy Anderson | Brian Anderson | Linda Anderson | Tom Anderson | Andy Archer | Eddie Austin | Robin Banks | ‘Seventies Supplement’ | Andy Archer | Robin Adcroft | Brian Anderson | Andy Anderson | 70s Disc-Jockeys A
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Tom AndersonTom Anderson One of the most popular Caroline DJs during the seventies and eighties, Tom was first heard on the station in the early hours of 14th June 1976.He left the following February but returned to the ship a couple of years later, in April 1979.He was one of the last DJs on Caroline's ship, the mv Mi Amigo, being taken off by lifeboat the night she sank in March 1980.He helped on the fitting out of the new vessel, the Ross Revenge, and presented the first programme when the station returned to the air in 1983.At the end of 1984 Tom left to work for the station on land.He returned to the air a year later to run the 'Caroline Overdrive' rock service until its demise in January 1987.He was heard occasionally after that but eventually left the organisation to work for Sunshine Radio on the French Riviera.When he returned to the UK he joined radio syndication company PPM, moving to the BBC's Greater London Radio in 1991.Here he was mainly employed as a lecturer on a radio training scheme but he also presented a weekend programme on the station.When the training scheme ended after a year, he moved back to the south of France and Riviera Radio, later becoming Programme Director.He still lives in France. ,Photo from the 'Radio Caroline Picture Souvenir Book' published by MRP Books.,
click to hear audioTom Anderson on an early evening programme from Radio Caroline, 8th July 1976, soon after he joined the station.