Why the story of Radio Caroline is ridiculous ....

We begin with the fact that anoraks do not undertake original research. They listen to blather and then repeat it. If they did original research and undertook critical analysis they might wonder why their "Jimmy Ross" story relating to a car ride involving three people who arrived at Hindhead, did not emerge until it first appeared in a novel in 1990 about a man name "Jim Shaw", who obviously did not exist, because he was a character in a work of fiction.

That novel was first published in 1990. So where was this story before then? Obviously it was still in the head of its inventor, Ian Cowper Ross. Then there is a question why Ronan O'Rahilly never told that story and why Ian Cowper Ross admitted to Ray Clark that Ronan O'Rahilly did not like it.

The switch from novel to fact began on a BBC-TV program in 1991, and yet, Ronan O'Rahilly had to be filmed separately from Ian Cowper Ross so that Ian Cowper Ross could tell his absurd story and claim that it was really about Ronan O'Rahilly. Obviously Ronan liked his own lies better than Ian's.

Then there is the strange tale of Planet Productions Limited that was not registered in the UK, but in Ireland by a lawyer and his two secretaries.

Where was Ronan O'Rahilly? Good question.

Answer, he did not show up in PPL documents until April.

When was PPL registered? Answer: February 26-27, 1964.

When did 'Radio Caroline' begin broadcasting? At the end of March. So who bought the ship and the transmitters and paid for their installation?

Anoraks don't know.

Anoraks are really stupid people who have spread lies like treacle.

Anoraks obviously can't think at all, let alone critically.

Anoraks can only attack the messengers who point out their empty-headed stupidity and try to swindle more stupid people into buying their non-thinking childish books and into supporting a rusting hulk while paying for transmissions over a tin pot station which they fraudulently claim is 'Radio Caroline'. - even though it was  killed off on August 14, 1967.