PAUL ENGLISH LIVE #138· From Pirate Airwaves to Hidden Histories: A Night with Miles Johnston and Eli James

Broadcasts live every Thursday at 8:00p.m. uk time on Radio Soapbox: http://radiosoapbox.comWe battled a few gremlins at the top of the show and compared notes on recent streaming hiccups between Rumble and YouTube before settling back into our usual rhythm. I talked through possible schedule tweaks for this programme and the growing FFT Radio line-up, then welcomed Eric Von Essex to chew over the week: elections, tech tantrums, garden fences and the strange comfort of bell-ringing and early-morning radio. Hour two featured broadcaster and researcher Miles Johnston, who traced a vivid, first-hand history of Ireland’s pirate radio era—Big D, Sunshine, Radio Nova—and how that creative wave, engineering craft and “Optimod” sound shaped broadcasting across these islands. From there we ventured into his current interests: frequency and field effects, the Bell, megaliths and interdimensional ideas, plus why so much of official history feels curated. In hour three, Eli James joined from Arkansas to discuss media capture, lawfare around groups like SPLC/ADL, demographic engineering, and the spiritual and cultural stamina required to build alternatives. A lively, occasionally provocative tour across radio past, contested present and possible futures—all with you alongside in the chat.'Rumble': https://rumble.com'YouTube': https://www.youtube.com'FFT Radio' (Food For Thought Radio): https://fftradio.com'StreamYard' (live streaming studio): https://streamyard.com'The Bases Project' (Miles Johnston): https://thebasesproject.org'Radio Caroline' (official site): https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk'Q107 Toronto' (CILQ‑FM): https://q107.com'CHUM‑FM Toronto': https://www.iheartradio.ca/chum'SPLC — Southern Poverty Law Center': https://www.splcenter.org'ADL — Anti‑Defamation League': https://www.adl.org'Oxford University Press': https://global.oup.com'Rick Beato (music educator) YouTube channel': https://www.youtube.com/@RickBeato'Patrick Moore — The Sky at Night' (BBC): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk7h'Richard Vobes (presenter/filmmaker)': https://www.richardvobes.com'Mark Devlin (author/broadcaster)': https://www.markdevlin.co.uk'Ford Motor Company': https://www.ford.com'Prime Minister of Israel — Official': https://www.gov.il/en/departments/prime_minister'Saturn Death Cult (Troy McLachlan)': https://saturniandeathcult.com