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Radio piracy on the high seas

Updated on 23 March 2009

By Stephanie West

Pirate radio gets the movie makeover as Love Actually director Richard Curtis revisits the 1960s' off-shore radio scene.

The director who brought us Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually has now turned his sights to the heady days of pirate radio.

In The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis revisits the government's successful bid to shut down the pirate radio ships that ringed the British coastline in the 1960s.

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