I only knew Roger Tate through listening to his programmes on the radio. He was a DJ on Radio Invicta, London’s first soul music radio station, launched in 1970. Invicta was a pirate radio station. Back then, there were no legal radio stations in the UK other than the BBC. The notion of a campaign for a soul music radio station for London had been a little premature, given that no kind of commercial radio had yet existed in Britain. But that is exactly what Radio Invicta did.
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://grantgoddard.co.uk/radio-invicta-the-genesis-of-black-music-radio-in-london-still-unfulfilled/
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