Tony Blackburn hijacks BBC Radio 2 show to mark 60 years of pirate radio

The DJ played Caroline by The Fortunes, which he used to play on Radio Caroline in the 1960s (BBC/PA)

By Hannah Roberts, PA Entertainment Reporter

Veteran DJ Tony Blackburn hijacked The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 in a stunt celebrating the 60th anniversary of the UK’s first pirate radio station.

Radio Caroline was a British radio station that began regular broadcasting on March 28 1964 from a ship anchored off the coast of Felixstowe in Suffolk.