Quoting a previous Steve Martin contribution:-

So how would you feel if in the great metropolis that is London Town a
muslim pirate station came on air putting out stuff like rise up against
the Government, encouraging people to go out bombing & maiming people?
Now that's radical!

Hasn't it already been done?

Actually, when it comes to Islam, methinks pirate radio isn't needed. The far more efficient 'broadcast' method is Friday prayers or watching some of the many satellite / cable TV stations originating outside the UK, and even some of them originating within the UK. These are perfectly efficient at getting that message across without having to resort to pirate radio.

Just out of interest. How many urban talk pirates are there down there?

Aha. My favourite subject. There are two main styles of talking pirate. Obviously, in all cases they don't advertise themselves as talk stations, but just include the talking as part of the programming – it's normally driven by the ability of the presenter who's turned up and to me always seems to be spontaneous without all the desperate 'menuing' you got on legal talk show.

The stations aimed at the older Afro-Caribbean generations tend to have more mature conversations, usually about god (the Christian one) and how terrible the yoot are.

The other style being the more yoof-oriented stations that will tend to chat with the audiences listening to them about the music or the events they've attended. These will also cross over to conversations about gang versus gang and things to do with da laydies and their bastard children (in the literal sense). Callers will be mid to late teens. Sex and relationships wiv mum and da bois feature heavily.

Some while ago I listened to a 'good' debate about why somebody who died had had to be stabbed and how he deserved it. Strangely fascinating, but extremely upsetting that it demonstrated the way our feral 'children' think these days, and how they live a completely parallel life that is not reflected by mainstream media. We thought it was weird to learn how 'immigrant populations' were living completely parallel lives, unaware how 'our children' are also.

What are the best ones? Do they stream so us up norf can have a listen?

I haven't been able to tune around on that analogue stuff for a while, but I'll have a go and report back. The best one I liked was Xtreme, but that recently got a heavy studio raid so it's only just got back on with 'back-up' people. I think that streams / streamed.
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* Christopher England just said that *