Beginning tomorrow we will separate our two Blogs by continuing to unmask the fictitious story of Radio Caroline on this Blog, and filling-in as many of the blank spots that we have already uncovered (and still uncovering), about the true story, on our companion Blog - see the link button above.

In Wednesday's Blog we provided the beginnings of a new timeline that is in sharp contrast to the vague ramblings put forth by other authors. In their accounts of what happened, Radio Caroline began in the offices of Jocelyn Stevens, moved to Regent Street and then moved again to Chesterfield Gardens. It is the only way that all of these authors can explain what happened.

This is the 'Steve Martin Moment' for all those authors where he exposes them as frauds and fools. He does so in his stand-up comedy line 'You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes'.

Steve begins by telling his audience to first get a million dollars, and then tell the tax man that the person with the million dollars forgot to pay taxes on the million dollars. But that is the joke: If you don't have a million dollars to begin with, the tax man will not be calling to collect taxes on the million dollars that don't exist.

However, with the Radio Caroline story, all of the various authors begin with a statement of fact that isn't fact at all: it is an adaption of the Steve Martin comedy line intended to fool their readers that the authors know what they are writing. Of course, they don't, and that becomes very obvious very quickly to anyone smart enough to be able to think for themselves.

Remember, it is not for the person challenging the veracity of the person making the claim to prove anything. It is for the person making a claim to prove what they are saying is true. That's how it works in the court room and that is how it works in real life - with the exception of radio anoraks. They believe that somehow or other Ronan O'Rahilly became a radio messiah whose word cannot be challenged. But we not only challenge the words spoken by Ronan O'Rahilly, we call him a liar.

The radio anoraks are religious fanatics who believe that if Ronan O'Rahilly said something is true, then it must be true, or that there must be an excuse as to why it isn't true, and that excuse in and of itself makes it true. That fanatical devotion is the stuff that fuels crazy cults, and the radio anoraks are part of a crazy cult of true believers.

Ronan O'Rahilly claimed that he suddenly became awash in cash and he then decided to start a radio station on a ship. The only problem with that scenario is that he did not suddenly, become awash in cash, and without that cash, he was not in a position to start anything, let alone a radio station.

In fact, Ronan O'Rahilly claimed on that infamous 1991 BBC-TV show, that that also he managed singer Georgie Fame, and that he made a master recording which the BBC and Radio Luxembourg would not play. He said that Luxembourg had sold all of its time to major record companies.

But that was not true, and Joe Meek proved that it was not true because he had his own singers; his own record label and his own show on Radio Luxembourg! Then there was Peter Snell and his Aral Records Company - with an address at 54/62 Regent Street, the very same address that Radio Caroline also began to use, and that address is key to everything.

Radio Caroline popped-up first on Regent Street at an accommodation address, and then it moved to Fetter Lane before arriving at Chesterfield Gardens. But the radio anoraks spin a different tale. They claim that Radio Caroline began at Fetter Lane, moved to Regent Street and then moved to Chesterfield Gardens.

Ronan O'Rahilly was a liar. He did not manage Georgie Fame and EMI had already released an LP by Georgie Fame at the very time that Ronan O'Rahilly said that he could not get anyone interested in pressing and playing his own master recording of Georgie Fame. The success of Georgie Fame had absolutely nothing to do with Ronan O'Rahilly. He lied about everything to do with his life after he arrived in London, which was at some date in time during the years 1960-1961.

Ronan O'Rahilly was young; Irish and broke. Three elements working against him. All he had left was "blarney", and he used "blarney" to great success in furthering his own ends.

Tomorrow we will examine those gaps in the timeline that we began in Wednesday's Blog, and we will revisit facts in evidence which begin to provide answers to the mystery that surrounds the 1964 creation of Radio Caroline.

If Radio Caroline did not begin with Jocelyn Stevens as depicted in the May 12, 1964 Granada-TV show 'World in Action', then where did it begin?

Jocelyn Stevens said on camera in that Granada-TV show that it began as a project about six months earlier, and that would mean around September-October 1963. But where did it begin, and who began it, and why?

Forget the nonsense about a lack of pop music, or a shortage of independent record labels. British TV with Radio Luxembourg promoted the Beatles to fame long before anyone mentioned the name Radio Caroline. The record charts also reflect this. Joe Meeks and others also proved that what Ronan O'Rahilly claimed could not be done, was already being done by several people who had independent record labels.

When Radio Caroline did come on the air, it sounded like the BBC kind of delivery. It was a mixture of ad hoc music. It was not American Top 40, and it was not even up to the standard of Radio Luxembourg commercial program delivery. It was a long form of BBC broadcasting that targeted "housewives" - not teenagers!

The proof is there for all to see, but latter-day writers - most of them coming to the press after 1991 - want you to believe lies, rather than documented contemporary facts!

Clearly, if the nonsense spun by Ian Cowper Ross is removed from the storyline, then there are several gaps in the Jocelyn Stevens version of the story. However, the Jocelyn Stevens version is not contradictory, which the Ian Cowper Ross version most certainly is.

The key dates to consider are these:

1. September-October 1963, starting date for Radio Caroline project given by Jocelyn Stevens;
2. January 1, 1964: purchase from DFDS and arrival of the mv Fredericia at Rotterdam, Holland;
3. February 14, 1964, date when the mv Fredericia left Rotterdam and eventually arrived at Greenore, Ireland;
4. February 26, 1964, date of registration by Planet Productions Limited in Ireland;
5. March 27, 1964, date of arrival by mv Fredericia off Essex and beginning of test transmissions;
6. May 1, 1964, expiration date on first Radio Caroline Rate Card showing a address on Regent Street in London;  
7. May 12, 1964, transmission date of 'World in Action', a Granada-TV show that was filmed inside the office of Jocelyn Stevens on Fetter Lane where Ian Cowper Ross; Ronan O'Rahilly and Christopher Moore were also present.

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​This timeline clearly shows that Planet Productions Limited was incidental to the actual storyline, since many events involving the expenditure of money had already taken place - before it was even formed.

Also key is the fact that the first Rate Card originated with a Regent Street address.

So who was providing the money for all of this, and how were they dispensing it?

Now according to Ian Cowper Ross, a man named "Jimmy Shaw" who was the father of "Paul Shaw" provided a man named Liam O'Mahoney with a suitcase of money via a bank, to purchase a ship called mv Anastassia, and all of this was published as fiction.

Not only that, but the fictitious characters named by Ian Cowper Ross in his 1990 novel, form the only basis for the story that Ian Cowper Ross spun as fact, just one year later. That was in 1991 on BBC-TV.

Later still in an interview with Ray Clark, he began to weave the tale of fiction that Ian Cowper Ross wrote in 1990, into an embellished tale account that went beyond what he claimed in 1991 on BBC-TV. It was as if he knew he had got away with a lie, and now he was trying to see just how stupid everyone was in believing what he had to say.  But, if Ian Cowper Ross is removed from the storyline, then Ronan O'Rahilly's version leaves the money part of it as a total blank.

No one acted like a professional journalist or interviewer by pinning down Ian Cowper Ross to specific information. It was all delivered with laughs by Ian Cowper Ross as if he was 'high' on something - or as if he thought that everyone taking note of what he was saying was so stupid to be beyond belief.

Now if we switch tracks to Ronan O'Rahilly, all he did was to recite another tale which was very loosely based upon fact, but which Ronan O'Rahilly had distorted by expanding it to the point that it became a total lie. However, O'Rahilly's nonsense story was a sort of precursor to the story spun by Ian Cowper Ross. They don't overlap, but they do compliment each other in order to form one big lie. To that framework of lies are added more lies.

Therefore, trying to pin down the money story based upon the idea that "Jimmy Shaw" is really Charles Edward Ross, the father of Ian Cowper Ross, and that Charles Edward Ross called Jocelyn Stevens on the phone and got him to become a major investor in Radio Caroline is ridiculous, especially since the first address used by Radio Caroline was on Regent Street, and not at Jocelyn Stevens' office on Fetter Lane.

Now this is not to say that Jocelyn Stevens did not become involved because he obviously did, and the May 12, 1964 Granada-TV 'World in Action' show clearly places Ian Cowper Ross, Jocelyn Stevens, Ronan O'Rahilly and Christopher Moore all in the same space and time inside the office of Stevens Press Ltd on Fetter Lane. But, May 12, 1964 is the last of 7 key dates (see list above), and clearly there are not only missing dates in that calendar of  events, but there is a lot of missing information as well.

Who was running the show, and why were they running it?

There is a connection to the formation of Project Atlanta Limited on August 1, 1963, and before that to a company known as CBC (Plays) Limited. In fact, it is CBC (Plays) Limited that holds the key to understanding what it was holding that made it central to this story. It was CBC (Plays) Limited that not only linked to a major British electrical manufacturer, but it also linked to a production company linked to both ITA contractors and Radio Luxembourg, and an association via Houston, Texas, with the offices of "Mister Big" - as Jocelyn Stevens called him, while denying on camera that he existed!

Oh, he existed and only the hoi polloi seem to be unaware of what this man was doing. The UK government knew, and the criminal underground knew, and many large international business executives knew.

This is the storyline we are unfolding and why we totally discarding the nonsense lines (lies) spun by Ronan O'Rahilly and Ian Cowper Ross - except where their lives genuinely intersect and interact with the real story.

In our continuing Blog we will reveal where this complicated trail leads to, and it does not lead where you might imagine that it leads to, and neither is the ultimate objective to establish an offshore radio station called 'Caroline'. That was only a means to an end, and in the end it became a headache that needed to be disposed of, and on that point everyone agreed!

Everyone that is, except die-hard anoraks who chose to believe in the lies of Ronan O'Rahilly!