Making Waves av Susie Rose

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The saga of how the north of Scotland secured its own commercial radio station at this time in history isunique. Radio station licences were strictly controlled by the Home Office and the standards for output wereset deliberately high. Here we have a group of community activists who didn¿t have experience or a penny totheir name. They raised funds for photocopying their application by holding plant sales and in the processscared off the more serious local investors who didn¿t think they¿d pull it off. But they did. <div><br></div><div>The rest of the book looks at what they did with it, the story told largely in anecdotes from those who were there. With a bunch of largely untested on-air talent, and relying on a great deal of volunteer labour, they ended up with some of the best listening figures in the country. It¿s a remarkable tale backed up by dozens of photographs that will evoke the 80s and 90s. </div><div><br></div><div>The book explains why truly local radio was so important to