I think someone has confused Ted Short's words here. I have a newspaper article here (the Newcastle Journal no less) which covers his confiscating his own daughter's radio as she was listening to an unlicensed offshore radio station. What a typical school-teacher (his original job) what a typical socialist - scam p out any fun to ensure state control of people's minds. Even their own children!
I can't envisage Short actually listening Radio 390 or anything else that's not state-controlled.
He wasn't known as "spoil-sport Short" for nothing!