Mark Stuart is best remembered for his time as a DJ on Radio Northsea International in 1971 but he returned to sea in 1984-5 to work behind the scenes as an engineer on Laser-558. He has given me these recordings, taped off-air on the Laser ship, the mv Communicator, on a collection of old cassettes. Some are very short.
There are no dates on the cassettes. I have tried to give dates where possible – either taken from DJ comments, news items or Jan-Fre’s Offshore Radio Index - but some are unknown. Can anyone supply the missing dates?
I have posted clips from some of these on my website: https://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/album121.htm
MS01Ric Harris Laser 730 06:00-07:00 30/1/84 studio dry run, scoped, not broadcast; Laser 558 26/12/84 07:53-08:17 GMT
MS02Ric Harris Laser 558 08:40-09:11 undated (possibly 26/12/84 continued)
MS03David Lee Stone Laser 558 08:40-09:00 17/11/84 (poor quality)
MS04David Lee Stone Laser 558 09:01-09:20 17/11/84.
MS05David Lee Stone Laser 558 Sixties Sunday, 08:20-08:40 18/11/84 (includes going off the air briefly for “technical adjustments”)
MS06David Lee Stone Laser 558 Sixties Sunday 18/11/84
MS07David Lee Stone Laser 558 date unknown.
MS08David Lee Stone Laser 558 07:44-08:06 date unknown
MS09David Lee Stone Laser 558 14:42-15:02, 6/11/84
MS10David Lee Stone Laser 558 afternoon 6/11/84 (6 mins); David Lee Stone Sixties Sunday 11/11/84 07:18-07:33
MS11David Lee Stone Laser 558 16:38-17:09 a Saturday in February 1985
MS12Ric Harris, Laser 558 07:19-07:36 Sixties Sunday 28/10/84
MS13Ric Harris, Laser 558 8:23-08:39, Sixties Sunday undated (possibly 28/10/84 continued)
MS14David Lee Stone Laser 558 16:35-17:05 Sixties Sunday undated
MS15David Lee Stone Laser 558 07:56-08:27 25/3/85
MS16David Lee Stone Laser 558 Sixties Sunday 08:12-08:43 24/3/85
MS17David Lee Stone / Erin Kelly Laser 558 08:54-09:25 Sixties Sunday undated (possibly 24/3/85 continued)
MS18Erin Kelly Laser 558 09:27-10:00 station closes with technical problems. Possibly 28/2/85
MS19Tommy Rivers Laser 558 13:57-14:44 undated, possibly 28/2/85 “back with a new and improved aerial system”
MS20Tommy Rivers, Charlie Wolf on news Laser 558 20/11/84 15 minutes
MS21Ric Harris Laser 558 Sixties Sunday 16/12/84 15 minutes
MS22Ric Harris, Holly Michaels Laser 558 08:47-09:02 Sixties Sunday 16/12/84
MS23Ric Harris Laser 558 05:52-06:39 Sixties Sunday 17/3/85
MS24Erin Kelly Laser 558 08:58-09:45 Sixties Sunday 17/3/85
MS25Dave Chaney Laser 558 09:15-10:00 Sixties Sunday, date unknown
MS26David Lee Stone / Jessie Brandon Laser 558 16:28-17:13 Sixties Sunday + short clip from another show (Liz West?)
MS27David Lee Stone Laser 558 09:35-09:50 Sixties Sunday 18/11/84
MS28David Lee Stone Laser 558 Sixties Sunday, date unknown
MS29David Lee Stone Laser 558 Sixties Sunday, 06:59-07:11, date unknown