"Incidentally, one other thing that emerged from Tony Benn’s political diaries was that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was actually a keen listener to some of the pirate stations, especially Radio 390. In his diary entry of Sunday 22nd May 1966 Benn commented: “He [Harold Wilson] enjoys the pirates and has always been trying to find some way of taxing them. This of course would be guaranteed to consolidate their strength and the Treasury would then never let us kill them.” 
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Ted Short said later that he listened to some of the pirates, especially Radio 390 (BBC Radio The Story of Pop 1982).
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!
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14th August 1967 - Freddie Archer 14/8/2025, 8:49:54
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