If you look at longevity, PM has now been at the helm for longer than not. In other words, over half the life of Radio Caroline has been stewarded by him. The Lady has achieve more in the PM years than it did previously, except in audience size. It's certainly a darn sight easier to pick it up these days than ever before and offers several diverse streams of programming.

My only gripe is that Caroline is not sufficiently commercial to self-sustain its operations without begging for donations; that's a very precarious position to be in. Many local stations generate more revenue than does Caroline (in fact, my last two pubs each generated over £1m a year). Time marches on and everything costs serious dosh; Caroline sets its targets far too low. Money might not be the Lady's raison d'etre but it is necessary. And it's VITAL when certification is needed. When the Tattershall Castle was surveyed in Hull it cost almost £1m to drag her up there and back.

Should Caroline really be a station whose reputation is simply "the past"?