A POPULAR repair show will feature a unique boat moored in the River Blackwater in an upcoming episode.
Studio equipment from Radio Caroline’s former pirate radio ship Ross Revenge will feature in an episode of a new TV show called Retro Electro Workshop on the Yesterday channel.
The ten-part series about the dying art of repairing electronics is fronted by super-fixer Rob Howard.
In the show, he and his team find, fix, restore and revive “anything old with a plug on it”.
In the episode to be aired on Tuesday, July 25 at 9 pm, Rob goes to sea to restore a vintage broadcast studio on Radio Caroline's pirate radio ship Ross Revenge, which is moored on the Blackwater Estuary.
The studio is equipped with a valve mixing desk, record decks and magnetic tape cart machines.
The equipment in this studio was loaned to Working Title film company for the 2008 Richard Curtis film ‘The Boat That Rocked’, which pays homage to the 60's hey-day of Radio Caroline.
The station broadcasts 24/7 on 648AM, online and on DAB, and has modern studios both on board Ross Revenge and on land, but the vintage ship studio still gets used occasionally during monthly offshore broadcasts.
Radio Caroline station manager Peter Moore said: “Presenters sometimes like to access the ship’s well-stocked vinyl library, keeping alive another rare art of placing pick-up arms precisely on vinyl albums while playing jingles and promotions on hand-loaded, continuous reel tape machines.”
The episode featuring Radio Caroline will also be available after broadcast on UK TV Play on demand.
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