The pirate who changed British radio
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In 1981, Rita Marley’s brother Leroy Anderson, aka Lepke, launched the Dread Broadcasting Corporation (DBC), Europe’s first dedicated black music station.
Frustrated by the lack of airtime for reggae music in the UK, Lepke set up a mast in his back garden and began broadcasting to a small area of West London every Sunday afternoon . DBC soon expanded to cover all styles of black music and with its unmistakable logo featuring a dreadlock with headphones and a spliff became a trailblazer for the future of black British radio in the UK.
Carmella Jervier, aka Sister C, told Witness History how hearing black DJs like Ranking Miss P on DBC inspired her to become a DJ.
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