RADIO 270 - FINAL HOUR AUGUST 14TH - 1967 - Audio CD Here is a CD of the final hour of North Yorkshire, UK - Offshore Radio station Radio 270, from Monday August 14th 1967. Featuring programmes director Vince 'Rusty' Allen, this final 60 minutes in the life of Radio 270 features the voices of DJ's past and present - Ross Randell, Paul Burnett and Guy Hamilton. Rusty also talks to the members of the crew, and plays recordings of other DJ's that did not make it out to the radio ship Oceaan7 - home of Radio 270, for the closing broadcast. Indeed this incident caused a major upset for crewmen of an RAF helicopter from RAF Leconfield in North Yorkshire, on that day. As friends of one of Radio 270's DJ's, the crew were asked to fly over the Oceaan7 and drop a plastic bag containing a tape recording onto the vessel for broadcast during the last show. Sadly the tape ended up in the sea, but also in the package was a message to the 270 crew telling them not to mention the drop! It was rumoured that the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, demanded a report of the incident, and the pilot and his navigator were carpeted for the unauthorised flight. Unfortunately that did not alter events, and Radio 270 left the air to the strains of the National Anthem at one minute to midnight on August 14th 1967. In its 13 months on air, Radio 270 became a truly local station, with much local advertising. The station's programmes were never as good as their Southern counterparts in the Thames Estuary, but listeners in the North East of England certainly took Radio 270 to their hearts. This is a CD recording from a good quality off air transmission.