Nigel James had a large childhood interest in radio which led him to listen to many stations and get involved in hospital radio. He went on to run a LBP station in Hertfordshire and submitted programmes to London LBPs. Nigel is an avid fan of both Max Bygraves & Kylie Minogue,his choice in music is as wide as his vocabulary. Anything from Mantovanni through to classic gold and Euro are sure to get a spin or two on the Nigel James show on RNI, Sundays 7-10pm.

Brian Scott has always had a keen interest in music and followed the offshore radio scene in the 70`s and Continental radio both for the different styles of presentation and music.
One night whilst running up and down the MW band he heard Garry Stevens and shortly afterwards had the privilege of joining him on North London Radio. Brian enjoys all kinds of music from Mozart to Motorhead, he prefers to let the music do the talking. After along break from broadcasting he is back on RNI and very much enjoying playing you the best of old, new and some unusual tracks from the RNI archives.

Mike Andrews first got involved in radio after the influence of the 70s sea borne radio stations.  Having a keenness in electronics Mike soon built his first transmitter and went on to become a first class radio engineer, supplying much of the equipment used by the LBP radio scene throughout the 80s and 90s.  He also presented smooth sounding radio shows on the same LBP stations. Mike can be heard on RNI occasionally as a guest presenter.

Duncan James first became involved in radio in 1978 as an avid listener to the LBP stations in London.  While playing with his Tandy 10 in 1 electronic project kit, configured as a low power AM transmitter, he came across a pirate station called North London Radio run by Garry Stevens.  Finding this station made him tune around more on the AM band and then on the FM band.  Which then led him to start building transmitters and running his own pirate station. Duncan James then went on to do programmes for several London stations and today hosts the Sunday 10-Midnight slot on RNI

Garry Stevens has been involved in radio since 1967 influenced by the 60s offshore radio scene Garry went on to run many successful LBP stations in London and spent many years making programmes for many stations both Pirate and legal up till the mid 90s, he has been a very popular voice for both ads and voice over’s on the two scenes. Garry brought Radio NorthSea international back to life in the form of a world wide on line station in July 2008, and has since put together a great team of dedicated DJ's from both sides of the North Sea. Even though Garry has a vast background of making first class radio shows these days he is happy just running RNI and to give others the chance to do programmes on the station. However Garry may present the occasional show on RNI from time to time. Howebver currently he can be heard Thursdays at 11pm until 8am Friday with the RNI nightshift this is a mixture of sweet music the sound of the sea various nature sounds and lots of droppings / Vo's of Garry.

Terry Simmons has been interested in radio since the 70's. The early years of London's Capital Radio were a big influence, especially the Fantastic Kenny Everett and Roger Scott. Terry has always been interested in the technical side of radio and in the early days built audio mixers, compressors and stereo encoders however never successfully built an FM Transmitter. Over the last twenty years or so Terry has been involved in FM pirate radio, Community Radio, Hospital Radio, and Internet Radio, albeit using a different surname. Terry can currently be heard playing a wide mix of music (a lot of which you don't hear anymore on mainstream radio) opening Fridays International Service with his show from 4pm 'till 5pm.

Tony James was mainly influenced by the 70s pirates, largely RNI.  Tony got involved with LBPs along with Mike Andrews, Garry Stevens and the rest of the team and produced many programmes for various stations. Tony is a big fan of Elvis Presley and the 60s and 70s music scene.  Tony submits voice-overs to RNI .

Steve Roberts  sadly passed away on19th May 2009.Like Bill, Garry and Arthur, grew up with the 60s offshore stations and went on to be heavily involved with the 70s LBP scene.  Steve was a big fan of 60s, 70s and 80s music and was a very popular voice on many of the stations he produced programmes for.  More recently he has submitted programmes to legal radio in Scandinavia and Offshore Music Radio UK.  Steve has also produced voice-overs for RNI and up until his passing presented a regular show on Sundays 4-5pm. R.I.P. 1955-2009

Dave Nicholas Born same year as Steve Chesney - the RNI DJ who lives closest to him! - Age trying to forget! Started his involvement in presenting music at age 15 at Grammar School with lunchtime sessions raising money for local charities. Went on to perform in Northwest club scene including the Legendary Wigan Casino in the early 70's where he even appeared as part of a stag night. Then spent a couple of years as compere and link at Tetley Walker night club in Warrington where he worked with almost all of the cast of the comedians. Did summer season at Layton Blackpool where he shared one bill with the Nolans! In the early 70's got involved with Hospital radio in Chorley, Lancashire after being featured from a local club. In 1974 started commentating Stock Car racing at New Brighton and that led to doing Stock Cars at Stadiums from Cowdenbeath to St Day (Tiny place in Cornwall) and in N.Ireland and the Isle of Man. In 1980 that was 141 events, mainly weekends, between March & November! Did promotional work with Bill Maynard, of Heartbeat and Selwyn Frogatt fame in the 1980's at Circuits all over the UK. Then went on to discos in the Midlands from 1976 for around 8 years.
He made it aboard the Mi Amigo in 1967 after lending a Motown album to Johnnie Walker and was stranded there for two days by the weather. He claims fame in not being seasick!. He found RNI via a Golden Radio e.mail in 2010 for Easter Monday and then via azanorak.com where he still uploads all the International service output. He uploads all the Dutch and German output to Golden radio.
He states that the passion for music and the great cammerardierie with everyone at RNI is so special, its the best place to be and he really feels at home. Can't ever see himself anywhere else! Dave can be heard on RNI each Thursday 7.pm till 8pm GMT.

Dave Parkin was a big fan of RNI in the 70s, in fact RNI was one of his favourite stations of all time, so much so that when the new RNI started Dave was one of the first to contact the station.  He kindly produced an RNI car sticker for the station and paid for and setup of RNI’s web addresses just below.
http://www.radio-northsea.co.uk

http://www.radionordsee.nl

http://www.radionorthsea.eu

http://www.70sradio.co.uk

Arthur Burton started as a mere site lackey on Radio Jackie and then went on to make his first show on Sun Radio in 1975, and well it’s all been downhill since then! He helped setup the original Radio Nova in Italy in the late 70’s, and has been involved with stations like RFL- Radio Free London, Swinging Radio Sidcup, the truly wonderful Radio Weird, OMR-Offshore Music Radio and more latterly, the revived Swinging Radio England. Arthur is always available for voice-over work, which he currently does for stations ranging from Sidcup to Cincinatti, from  Belfast to Brisbane, oh you name it…. (ok smartass, maybe not Katmandu!!!!) There’s more on this rogue here http://www.arthurburton.net
He is currently considering becoming a radio consultant- but, doesn’t think he can afford the drop in earnings ;-)

Martien Engel Was born 12 April 1962 He’s interest in radio first began while the pirate ships were broadcasting from the North Sea. He was a great fan of Radio Mi Amigo, and Radio Caroline’s (Dutch service 1979).  Martien’s favourite DJs back then, were Ferry Eden, Tom Mulder (Klaas Vaak DJ on Veronica, Tros) He started presenting shows in the eighties on the local radio station: Radio Ronde Venen, then after 10 years, there was Rick FM. Martien was also a member of Radio 192 (together with Ad Bouman, and many more Veronica DJs) He stepped into the world of commercial radio where the program: Club Mi Amigo was born, many DJs from Mi Amigo came to the studio and told there stories on air.
After Radio 192 He joined the internet stations Radio Mi Amigo 192, Radio Popular, and Radio Golden Flash in Belgium. For 5 years He has also been a member of the local station Scheldemond FM in the south of thNetherlands (zeeuws vlaanderen) And now Martien can be heard on Radio Nord Sea International, each Sunday morning between 10 till 11 am Dutch time, 9 till 10am UK, with the 19 Tig Show.

Wim van Egmond's interest in radio broadcasting began at the age of 11 when he would tune into Radio Luxembourg. He was a regular listener till the 90's.  When Wim was 16 years old he started his broadcast career at a local station in Utrecht, Hof van holland (Netherlands).  After that he worked for landbased stations such as WMR, Enterprise, Centraal, Freewave and Roulette 103.  He also worked on the North Sea for Radio Monique and Radio 558, from the Ross Revenge.  More recently Wim worked for Keistad FM in the Netherlands. When that came to an end he worked for RGR FM (Belgium) Radio Plus (Netherlands) Extra FM (Belgium) Radio Paradijs 1584 AM (Netherlands). Now Wim works for Radio Waddenzee 1602 AM (Netherlands) and of course R.N.I.  Wim’s programme “éénmaster” contains old music, (of course), old news, and nostalgia. The name of his program is a tribute to the antennas of the famous radio stations. For more about Wim visit his weblog, (dutch) http://wimvanegmond.web-log.nl/
Wim can be heard on RNI’s Dutch service every Sunday 9-11am

Leon Dorsey has been in the music/radio biz for over 40 years now! He started his own recording studio & record shop in the late 60’s See the history page on his website: www.rocksoundradio.tk
For the Dutch (pirate/offshore) radio scene Leon produced jingles, commercials and  tapes/cartridges (NAB) to be used in the jingle machines on RNI & Veronica way back in the 70’s. In his first studio Leon used a DIFONA mixing console, the same brand as was used on board the Mebo II (see the pictures) Difona was a German company just outside Frankfurt. His company Ranosound Studio also imported / produced jingle machines including from the UK "SIS" and from Spain/Belgium Maurice Bokkebroeks "Kwikdisk" a quick start turntable unit. In the late 70’s Leon went to Belgium & France to manage a Winery. Today he lives a slow life as a nature/modelling photographer. Also Leon is currently active in photo/video.See his photo site at  http://leonphoto.woelmuis.nl
Leon is one of the new R.N.I’s original team, and can be heard weekly during R.N.I’s Dutch service. Leon can be heard every Saturday 10 - 11am CET with his show The Crazy Leon Show

Klaas Vaak was born in 1952 in Egmond aan Zee in a medium-sized resort near Alkmaar.  At an early age Klass was drawn to the rumble of pickups, tape recorders, tape decks, and later still had the tape recorder to document the offshore radio era.  He always listened to Radio Veronica while at work, and also at Radio North Sea to International.  Klaas drives for work, so he has a love for the non-stop program mesh creation.Klaas came into contact with a former radio DJ from Monique which broadcast from the Ross Revenge and now is a local broadcaster in Ijmuiden Klass did programmes 0511 Radio, a weekly non-stop oldies show because the station only 60's and 70's hits.Regrettably Radio 0511 closed down but now Klaas can be heard on RNI.  Outside of radio Klaas’s major hobby is motor racing where my three sons travel all over Europe.Klaas can be heard on RNI’s Dutch service every Sunday 7-8am

Bert van der Laan became interested in radio in the early 1970's.RNI was "the place to be" with jocks  such as Ferry Maat, Joost den Draaijer and Peter Holland also later on Leo van der Goot and Tony Berk.Bert's broadcasting and DJ career started in 1976 with a small pirate radio station and the first gigs as a club DJ. From 1977 this was "regular business" every weekend. In 1980 Bert became a professional club DJ in the Lord Nelson in Meppel, quite a large disco at that time.In 1981 Bert joined the legendary Radio Veronica to present programs and produce jingles and promo's. At that time Bert started producing radio shows for a string of "free" radio stations in Flemish Belgium as well. From 1984 onwards Bert has run his own jingle and radio/TV commercial production company. In the early 1990's Bert was heavily involved in the Dutch commercial regional station Rebecca Radio (now known as City FM). Nowadays Bert's shows are heard on over 75 stations in the Netherlands and Flemish Belgium. (including stations like Mi Amigo 192, Havenstad FM, RTW FM, Radio Maaseik, Radio Bingo, Radio Popular, Excellent FM etc.) More info about Bert can be found at www.flashbackparty.web-log.nl and at www.flashbackparty.nl   Bert's jingles can be heard at www.radiopromotions.nl Bert can be heard on RNI’s Dutch service every Sunday 11am-12pm UK time.

G
Otto Has given up flying! And being pumped up between his legs by young blond busty air hostesses, see the film! Any way he has now joined the radio world and since 2008 has been responsible for the automated section of RNI which can be heard from midnight Sunday until 10am Thursday when our weekend programs kick off with the German service starting an action packed set of programs in all three of RNI’s services. Otto plays all the output to be heard outside of these times. He may have an over inflated! Opinion of him self but he sure dose know how to spin those old 45s and mix them with jingles, promos, etc etc. you can contact Otto via   rni@dr.com














 

Gerrit Lettinck RNI's Dutch service Manager was born in Utrecht in 1958.  In the seventies he began his interest in radio, especially the offshore radio stations like RNI, Veronica, Caroline and Mi Amigo. It was in 1974, the year of the closedown of RNI and Veronica that Gerrit started to make programmes himself. For many years he made programmes for land based pirate stations, such as WMR, Hof van Holland, Domstad Radio, Radio Noord and Stad Radio Culemborg.
In 1980/1981 Gerrit went to Italy for a year to start Radio Europa’80 with some colleagues. Ferry Eden (Mi Amigo/Monique) was a part of that team however they had no success in starting the station on the Italian Riviera.  Gerrit is still in contact with Ferry Eden. In 2004 they both organised and produced a special RNI week on the very popular cable and internet station, Radio 192. It was a great success and they were proud that big RNI names like Hans Hogendoorn, Nico Steenbergen, Marc van Amstel, Pieter Demave, Eduard Huis in t’Veld, Peter Jager and Herman de Bruin made programmes or came to visit their studio. Even old RNI director John de Mol came round to join their special RNI-final program. During the past few years Gerrit has produced programmes for some internet stations including his programme “The Internet where it’s good again” In the early seventies Radio Nordsee International was Gerrits favourite station! These days he is in charge of the Dutch service as Manager and helps Garry Stevens to keep RNI sounding alive, and very virbarant. Gerrit also produces many of the new RNI jingles and promo's for all three services. In his own words Garry Stevens says that Gerrit is without doubt a great ambassador to RNI. Gerrit can be heard on on Saturdays 12pm / 2pm UK time with the R.N.I  Top 50, and on Sundays at 12pm / 1pm with his show "Forza"

Terry Day Born on 28th January 1954, in Swansea South Wales, right at the start of Rock'n'Roll, Terry has been interested in Radio and music since the age of three when he first started with listening to the radio. Terry was inspired by one of the Danger Man episodes “The Not so Jolly Roger” in 1965, which was about one of the Offshore radio stations which was set on the Shivering Sands Fort which was then home to Radio 390. In March 1967 while searching around for Radio Luxembourg he found both Radios, Caroline & Radio London on the airwaves. Although reception was quite poor where he lived he did manage to listen to some of them and Radio London became his favourite choice of station. It was a very sad day when the British Government brought out the Marine Offences Act to take them all off the air. That was it! so he thought. One late afternoon in January 1970 he saw some headlines on the front cover of Record Mirror, "North Sea Pirates on the Air Again!" So he started to tune in on 186m as well on short wave as well. He started to become a regular listener to the station. "It was the first time I could ever listen to an Offshore Radio Station during the day", he says and during the Summer time of 1970 in his school holidays he was able to listen to RNI all day. In 1973 when he was on day-release at his local technical college where he was studying Radio & TV, a friend invited him to join a local Hospital Radio service. There he learned many of the techniques of radio broadcasting. He even met the late Crispin St John while he was at Hospital Radio which was during the bed push, one of the Hospitals Radios fund raising events where Chris had just started at the new local ILR Station, back in September 1974. Although radio was his main ambition he never got there. But all that was about to change. Then in late August 2009 whilst he was on leave from his day job he re-discovered RNI on the internet and it was just like reliving 1970 all over again. He joined in the fun and mayhem in the chat room where he became an avid regular every weekend where he soon started playing quite an active part. Terry was approached by one of the DJs, he started working from behind the scenes for over four months, by making jingles for some of the DJs in the German service. This got him noticed by the boss of RNI, who then invited Terry to do a Demo for him Terry now has his own show on RNI, a long life dream and ambition. He can be heard every Friday afternoon between 2 till 3 o'clock, welcoming you all, to the weekend. Terry also wishes to point out that he is no relation to Roger "Twiggy" Day! Musical Tastes: Started with Cliff Richard (Applologies to Brian Scott) & The Shadows, The Beatles (Applologies to Hans-Joachim), Rolling Stones & Elvis Preseley. Etc,Etc.

Peter Jay grew up during the Pirate radio era, he enjoyed the stations so much that he decided that he wanted to get more involved.  He got his wish, he worked - mainly as a lackey, but did manage to do some d-jaying, voiceovers and jingles for several offshore stations. After their demise in the late 60’s Peter got involved in the LBP scene working with Radio Jackie, Kaleidoscope and WMR (based in Europe) and has many fond memories of climbing trees to put up antenna’s and running across fields carrying transmitters and car batteries being chased by the DTI. In 1970 Peter set up his own medium wave station, ‘Radio Valerie’ on 200mtrs using several 807 valve sets and also a shortwave station ‘Radio Europe’ which had many months success broadcasting on Sundays on 6210 khz, from several modified old ex army 19 sets to the whole of Europe, Peter has worked on a couple of ILR stations in the UK under various names, including BRMB which he say he hated because of their restrictions of what you could play.
Peter has also worked with hospital radio and has been running his own studio’s and mobile disco for nearly 40 years and currently splits his time between his studio, disco’s and 2 European FM local stations (who did not want to be mentioned) where he broadcasts English language programmes, mainly to ex-pats.
Peter has never lost his pirate spirit and has now joined RNI to bring people the feel of the music from pirate era.

Colin Weston  first got interested in radio at age 16 when he enjoyed listening to Caroline and Radio London and many other stations to numerous to mention. He was given a tape recorder for his birthday with 3 inch spools and had great fun recording the pirates. In 1973 he became station controller for Radio Tranquillity using high power for three nights during Christmas week, with the help of offshore DJs and Radio Kaleidoscope staff. Radio Tranquillity was the only land based pirate to broadcast live phone ins, in competition with Capital Radio and LBC, two new commercial stations that started in that era. Colin in later life worked on many pirate stations including Radio Veronica, ran by Garry Stevens, using his knowledge of sound recording Colin produced jingles at the recording studio where he worked, [very naughty]. He was last heard on Soundwave radio a community station based in Birmingham until it closed down three years ago and is now producing jingles etc. for other stations. He can now heard on Radio Northsea International, 4-5pm on Sundays and is very proud to be a member of the crew, He is happy to be entertaining the listeners once again. Colin says “Happy sailing folks.”

Steve Chesney Started listening to the pirates in the 60's whilst living in Lincolnshire on the East Coast moved away and never really lost the bug. Early 70's found him in Glasgow where he “learned” if that's the right word, his radio at HBS Glasgow with loads of other household names (Steve's a name in his own household – so that counts !) pause here to name drop, but no, resist the urge ! A great advocate of 70's pop music particularly to bemused friends and acquaintances he even has “Hup daar is Willem” as his telephone ring tone –oh dear , but we are happy to report the medication seems to have stabilised him. Steve states that the absolute pinnacle of his life/career to date is getting his gig on RNI , as he says “nothing comes close” ~ which we take to mean that  “nothing” would be about as good, an opinion which  by coincidence is also held by many of his listeners.

Clark Pink  As a child He always had a passion for music and also how it was produced His grandfather was a radio technician in the R.A.F and always surrounded by Valves and components he then was the head of Thorn TV division at Enfield .
Clark says he taught me at an early age how to repair simple equipment. School never offered me what I really wanted except physics biology and practical skills. Clark left school at 16 and served an apprenticeship in hydraulic engineering making aircraft lifting gear. Then the opportunity came along for him to Work for the Phillips Record industry this was the one! He went in as a tape eraser and ended up in the transfer studio then mastering! But the job required skills that he did not expect, like maintaining and servicing the tape machines this was part of the job. Clark says thanks to Bill Street a great man to this day I am servicing and rebuilding tape machines for a living. Clark had 25 years DJing around the country and sound engineering for bands. He also had various large sound systems to do events outside which He is still involved in. He loves analogue technology its what He grew up with as for mp3s well talk to Tony David about that. Clark worked on Excaliber Internet radio with Tony David for 5 years good times  many laughs had by all, Clark says Rni is great a station run by passionate  people that care. Clark can  heard on R.N.I each Friday at 3.pm GMT.iday at 3.pm

Jim Richman was  a former presenter on Radio Caroline, with a wealth of experience to his name.  Jim presents a weekly programme on Hospital Radio Lion at Royal Surrey County Hospital.  He has been a member since May 1977 so 32 years service to his credit. Jim takes over his regular slot at the console after travelling from his home in Feltham, Middlesex. Radio Caroline had a big influence on the life of Jim Richman, working as an apprentice transmission engineer on board the Frederica, Radio Caroline’s Ship off the Isle of Mann.  He applied and within a week he was on board. One morning the tender did not arrive due to rough weather, so Gerry Leighton, the Station Director mentioned he was short of staff and with in a couple of hours Jim was on air. He started in October 1965 and stayed until March 1966.
On his leaving he gained a contract at the Marquis Club in Wardour Street, London.  After that contract expired he was offered a public relations position with the Dutch pirate, Radio Veronica.  When the Marine Offences act came into force in September 1974, Jim returned to London and went freelance. 
He joined Radio Lollipop in 1982. Jim has worked over nights with Radio Jackie 1984-85, BBC Radio Medway 1975/76, Sunshine Radio in Worthing Sussex from 1977/78 and also numerous freelance fill ins for various stations.  Recently he was with Hayes FM 2008/9 in Middlesex.   He is now working at Radio Northsea International presenting “Remembering the 60s” on Saturday evenings from 6 to 7pm

Ray Collins has been involved with presenting radio programmes for more years than he cares to remember, starting out as a mobile disc jockey and working on the London club circuit as a resident DJ.  From there he progressed to presenting some “Guest DJ” shows for BBC Radio Medway (now Kent) on a freelance basis.  Owing to commitments elsewhere, it was never feasible for Ray to take up radio presenting full time but his enthusiasm led him into working for various hospital stations.  He then joined Radio Basildon, a commercial cable station, where he stayed for 3 years until its closure from where he moved back into hospital radio at Whitechapel AM, after which he got involved in a number of RSL stations.  Ray remembers sending an audition tape to the first DJ on Radio North Sea, Roger Day, in the early seventies, as yet no reply, so it has taken about 35 years for his application to be processed. Hi RNI – great to be on board at last! Ray can be heard on RNI, Saturdays at 2pm & 7pm, and Sundays at 2pm.

Paul Meier R.N.I’s German service Manager was born in 1952 and has been married since 1984. In 1968 he built his first little FM Transmitter. From 1973 until 1982 Paul had his own AM transmitter on 1485 KHz. Then in 1982 the authorities closed down the station. From 1985 until 1995 he worked for an open Channel on FM.
For the last 8 years Paul has presented a 2hr programme every Saturday on Radio Caroline. Since May 2009 Paul can be heard on Kult Radio every Saturday and Sunday morning. Paul looks after our very popular German service and dose a fine job too. In addition to being R.N.I’s German service Manager You can hear Paul on RNI every Saturday 11pm – midnight, and Sunday 6-7am UK time with his show called "Oldie Temple” Parts One and two.

Hardy began his radio-career in 1968 in the US State of Mississippi in the town named Biloxi, in the Gulf of Mexico. The station KHR-Radio was linked to the AFRTS (American Forces Radio & Television Service). RVI Radio Valentine International was a land based pirate he joined 1969, it later came to an end through the efforts of the German & Belgian authorities. Radio Fortuna LTD a legal German based company, founded in 1979 in WESEL /NRW, produced programmes in various cities in Germany and transmitted them in Italy at the Riviera, from a hill (900 meters high) at the city of Carara, so it could be received in Italy, France and sometimes the Spanish coast. The live and the recorded programmes were transmitted with a power of  18 KW on a directional antenna. In 1983  Tele Fortuna Ltd was founded and produced their legal private daily television programmes. During this time Hardy worked as chief, programme director and controller. Radio TeleWesel1 bought the rights on the name TELE Wesel 1 from Tele Fortuna and aired more than 200 programmes over the antennas of  Radio KW. Radio WMW - Borken (local radio) in NRW became his new base from 1992 -1998 with some 10 hours of live programs a week. During this time Hardy worked as controller of live programmes and reporter for the whole of the transmission area.  The station also had some live reports for their central broadcast mother station in Oberhausen for the news etc. for the whole state of NRW.
RTW1 is where Hardy currently works. He is the chairman and trainer for young journalists and editors. Unfortunately Hardy had to cut his work to a minimum due to a sudden death of his wife. She left him with 2 beautiful very young children (2 1/2  years and 5 months old) to take care of.  Hardy says “It may sound sad, but it really is a wonderful thing to do, now they are 9 & 11 years of age and I'm so glad to find RNI. To be back at the mike with such a crew makes me glad and really happy.” Tune in to Hardy every Friday and Saturday 4-5am UK time.

Douglas Coutts Rather than being reared on Ostermilk, Douglas was raised on RNI. A valuable addition to anyone's diet. Whilst his parents thought he was doing his homework he was in his room with his Dad's Bush TR-10 radio listening to 'Music For Young Europe' on RNI.  At Christmas 1973 he begged his parents for a Radio Cassette, and he got a Thorn EMI RC, that cost about 45 quid way back then. This then allowed Douglas to record some RNI shows, but as he freely admits, from the confines of his jacket that fastens up the rear, that he was more addicted to the jingles. Over the years he has collected 100's of hours of RNI recordings, and yes those wonderful jingles as well. He usually plays them full blast on a modern i-pod connected through some Denon kit, but as his room is now well insulated with padded material, the neighbors are not offended. He is also known for collecting old radios at car boot sales and jumble sales, with the net result that he now sleeps in the garage, with his Bush TR-10. Being a Man Of Action, or not, he can often be found on a beach somewhere, with an old transistor radio, some food and an open fire. Doug can now be heard on he's all time favorite station RNI each Friday at 3pm UK time with the RNI lift of show.

Tony Rider He began a long career at the age of 9 years old by having drumming lessons, and later on he became a competent player. Also he was given a 'Lustraphone mic' and an old reel to reel tape recorder at about 11 years old for music and voice practice. From then things went in the two directions, one drumming became a career move, firstly playing jazz then in shows and backing groups on tours. This took him into Europe and also the big stage venues in the UK. Later he became a session player and worked live with many International and National artists. His first broadcast was in the choir at Midnight Mass from Kings College Cambridge as a choir boy where he sang 'solo' at the tender age of 12 years old for BBC Radio. Later he worked and developed his voice techniques to a point that a number of reasonable sized 'disco events' could be accomplished there after he applied for an advertised trainee position with Mecca Dancing Group and won the contract. After qualifying as Tony Rocket he took over a major sizes establishment from the compeer position and also acted as the DJ between live sets on stage working along side most of the sixties super stars to. In 1966 he became a key DJ and producer for London's famous Flamingo Club in Wardour Street in Following that he was seen in many other prestigious night spots. His interests in radio grew and in the early 70's he became a main presenter with Radio Kaliedascope London then a very popular radio station. He worked on other numerous stations and also became the London link studios for 'The Voice of Peace' broadcasting from the Mediterranean but these shows were in fact recorded in Tony's Hampstead studios, also another of the RNI presenter’s Colin Weston who worked along side Tony for many years and then became a senior engineer for the London link studios. A little later on he took over as programme controller for 'Sound Wave Radio' and also presented shows for that station to. Tony hopes you will join him on Radio North Sea International where he presents a very broad based shows featuring selections from the  60's 70's each Saturday 5pm till 6 GMT.

Annoeska  was born in 1974 and that is the same year RNI stopped broadcasting, and she says that is her link with RNI.  Her interest in Radio started in 2004 at the RNI-week on Radio-192 in Holland. Annoeska says she was lucky to meet some of the original Jocks from RNI and even John de Mol. There and then her Radio career started when she became the Side kick of a Dutch Radio and TV Celebrity. Annoeska makes a live radio program with him once a week and has been doing so for the last 6 years. In 2005 she started at Surfradio, and has also done several courses in Radio and TV presentation. To improve her radio presentation and technique’s She has also done some live TV work.
In the summer of 2010 she could be heard on a radio station on the Spanish Costa’s every week day. When that stopped she started at another  Radio station where she has a two hour program each weekend, and in November 2010 she started with an hour on RNI.  Annoeska says "I am in a very lucky position because people from the Original management of RNI Dutch and the International service occasionally come to my studio."
Annoeska's  show on RNI can be heard each Sunday at  12 till 13hrs GMT / 13 till 14hrs CET  

Have a happy listening.
Annoeska.

Dave Williams Was born, and grew up listening to the radio. As a young teenager, Dave
discovered stations such as Caroline, London, and Yorkshire's own Radio 270, anchored between Bridlington and Scarborough. As a bit of a loner, Dave spent every spare moment  glued to the radio. "I wanted so much to be part of what was going on", he says. "But I  was just a kid at school, and way too young". After Caroline closed in 1968, Dave discovered Radio Veronica and became intrigued by the Dutch language and the music. He found himself inexplicably drawn towards Holland. "I've often wondered if I'd been a Dutchman in a previous life", Dave says. As author and webmaster of the RNI Tribute Pages website, Dave has been a keen supporter of Radio NorthSea International since the station began. At the age of 17 Dave found work as a mobile dj, and worked alongside a local band. When it was discovered he could also sing, the band invited him to join them, and so the dj work began to take a back seat. After many years, with the band, Dave branched out as a solo vocalist entertainer, both in his native Yorkshire, and then in more recent years on Merseyside, The Wirral, North Wales and Lancashire. He also plays keyboards and writes songs. One of Dave's specialities is creating English versions of European hit songs, and a number of his demo tracks can be heard right here on RNI, as well as on various stations in Holland. He also creates promotional videos which feature his songs, and these can be seen on his YouTube Channels. After retiring from the concert stage, even though he'd never done radio before, Dave was invited to join RNI as a guest presenter, with an initial "one-off" show which was broadcast as part of the Easter Monday programmes. This led to "Williams On The Wireless" becoming a weekly show soon afterwards. Dave's show can be heard on RNI on Fridays at
noon, and Sundays at 5.00pm, UK time. He also participates in RNI's special events, presenting additional shows, and is often to be found in the RNI chatroom. In his weekly show, Dave plays a wide range of music, from fifty years of hits. Focussing on the sixties and seventies. He also picks out tracks that found their way into the original Radio Noordzee Top 50, thereby ensuring that much of the music will bring back memories from the Mebo2 era. The playlist includes not only hits by British and American artists, but also music from a pan-european perspective, just as the original RNI did, some forty years ago. He'll also play the occasional more recent track, but this will invariably be a cover of a hit from years gone by. A regular feature of the show is the " Anorak Track ". Each week, items will be played which are in some way connected with offshore radio of the past. It might be a station or DJs signature tune, or an aircheck compilation of a particular station, or personality. Dave's presentation style is upbeat, the emphisis is on the music, and the chat is kept to a minimum, which means that anything up to 18 tracks will be heard in each show. Many of the original RNI jingles are heard, along with jingles from the present day RNI catalogue. Dave makes extensive use of specially commissioned voice-overs, which are voiced for him by American radio veteran, Bill Elder Dave also presents a show on the Dutch Station, Surf Radio International.
Visit Dave's website to check out the full story:

http://www.davewilliams.vze.

Peter T  Was born 1949 in Germany and become a great fan of offshore radio and listened all the time during the 60’s  to (Big L & Caroline). At the age of 20 he worked as a DJ in various Disco venues in his Hometown. Peter heard and become a big fan of R.N.I from day one in 1970 right up until the end in 1974.
After this time he started his own business by owning a pet shop for many years. Peter is also a close friend of R.N.I’s  DJ Hardy and on a visit to Hardy's studio he was invited to join in the making of that weeks Hardy’s Radio Show. As soon as this took place Peter had all those great feelings come flooding back to him. He soon built a studio at home and can now be heard on R.N.I every Thursday at 11am GMT 12 noon CET..

Rene  Was born in May 1979 and is a true pirate radio activist. After leaving school he first learnt carpentry, and then went on to make a career as an electronics technician. Together with a friend he started a pirate radio station "Radio Bamberg Rainbow" in 2006. The station went on the air via a transmitter and antenna, and soon became popular. The station continued until 2008 when the operation had to stop because the authorities closed the station down.  The laws regarding pirate radio in Germany are very similar to those in the UK. However if they thought that they had heard the last of him they were wrong, because in the same year he took over the use of a Flatcast radio server and started streaming a new station it was from this venture that Rene met and  became friends with R.N.I’s Wolfgang  who at that time worked at R.N.I Germany.
It was not long before Rene also joined  R.N.I Germany. Since early September 2011 Rene has hosted his show "The Golden 70s and 80s" in the German service of R.N.I  UK / USA
He can be heard every Thursday  9 - 11 CET. By the way, Rene is not only the youngest presenter here at the station! But with 167 he is also the "smallest" member at R.N.I  But with a big heart, and a great passion for music in the true free spirit of pirate radio.

Martin Leech, Martin’s interest in music started in 1970-71 when he and a group of friends formed a mobile disco calling it The Road Runner Disco and at the same time he joined Barking Hospital Radio. His inspirations during this time were the DJs The Emperor Rosko and the late Stevie Frog “Froggy”.
In 1983 the Road Runner Disco came to an end and he and a friend formed a new mobile disco, that they named Tequila Sunrise; this had a successful run for 4 years. In 1987 Martin left hospital radio after running the Station along with a friend for the last 4 years. Around this time he joined the very successful Essex Radio Soul Nite Special Team for a short spell as a support DJ.  In 1988 Martin joined Cookies Road Show; already a well-established mobile disco.  He fronted the show along with
Rob Cooke (a good friend and colleague at Barking Hospital Radio). In 1993 Rob called it a day and the disco closed and Martin hung up his turntables. Until joining RNI in December 2011, Martin still kept his hand in the music world, getting into the studio from time to time, recording the odd radio show. When not behind a microphone, Martin is behind a camera, enjoying the other love of his life (apart from his Wife Wendy and pussy cat ‘Best’!) – photography.  Martin and Wendy have a website that shows some of their work, especially their theatre work – www.wmphotoimaging.co.uk.
You can currently hear Martin on RNI twice a week – between 9.00am and 10.00am with Mart’s Music Mix, and on Sundays between 4.00pm and 5.00pm with Lazy Sunday.

RobWalker, Rob is in his second spell with RNI, and rejoined the station in February 2012. “A Better Music Mix” with Rob Walker can be heard every Friday evening between 5pm and 6pm UK time. Rob describes it as “an upbeat show covering hits from the sixties, seventies and eighties, to get you in the mood for the weekend” .He can just about remember listening to the pirate stations in the sixties and Radio Luxemburg via his transistor radio under the bed covers. Whilst at Junior School he was an avid “Big L” fan. He progressed to RNI in the seventies followed by Laser 558 in the eighties. Rob started out as a DJ when he was about 18, and has been a DJ for far too long – according to his wife! His first gig was with some borrowed hi-fi equipment at a house party for a friend, and after a few years he was working 5/6 nights a week doing either mobile work, or  working as a resident DJ in various clubs and pubs mainly in the West End and North London area’s. He was a lover of music from an early age via the pirate stations, but got hooked on Soul music when he first heard a James Brown track at his local record shop, and walked out with two albums by The Godfather of Soul. Over the years he has worked with numerous well known national radio DJ’s and various artists, but still feels the highlights were doing the “warm up’s” for Emperor Rosko on several occasions in the early days, and introducing the late Edwin Starr at a gig just prior to the new millennium. Soul Music generally and its various forms are his “musical passion” although he enjoys and appreciates most forms of music. Over the years he has worked on Hospital Radio, and currently has another show “The Essential Soul Selection” on a specialist soul station. If you would like a dedication, or a particular track played, please feel free to get in touch with Rob, via the contact details provided in his show.