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 6-8pm.

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 1968 having run many successful LBP stations in London, and having done 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. These days he is happy to give others the chance to do programmes on RNI and says he may make the very occasional appearance.

Marcel Poelman. Has been involved in radio since the late 60s largely influenced by the Offshore radio stations & Radio Luxemburg. The most interesting later on for him was Radio Noordzee Int. Marcel has done some technical  projects for LBP, and has also worked for several Local and Regional Radio Stations. Now these days he is a first class radio engineer. He also did some workshop Audio Editing & Jingle producing in Hilversum. Marcel makes some superb voice-overs and likes producing  jingles in both Dutch and English for RNI.

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, 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

Richard Graham remembers well both the 60s and 70s offshore radio stations with a great fondness.  Richard has been a voice on LBPs for many years producing programmes for many shortwave stations.  His music favourites come from the 50s, 60s and 70s.  Richard still produces programmes for several stations and was in fact the first to send voice-overs and jingles into RNI, so well done Richard. He is now doing a regular show on Sundays Midnight -1am.

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 RNI’s web address
radio-northsea.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 the Netherlands (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

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.

Dave Mason was born, on probation, in a rough part of Glasgow in 1959. His parents Bert the razor and Hatchet Maggy were notorious criminals.  Dave inherited the family talents and first came to the attention of the authorities when he was expelled from kindergarten for running a protection racket.

The die was cast and from then on there was only one type of career to which a reprobate like Dave was ideally suited .After forty years in local government planning departments Dave retired to a small island in the Caribbean for which he paid cash.

When not broadcasting Dave whiles away his days by indulging his interest in Brain Surgery, Toad Sexing and nailing cats to trees. He is also a compulsive LIAR.
Dave can be heard on RNI every Sunday 5-6pm

Gerrit Lettinck 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”. That’s also the show Gerrit produces for the new RNI. It’s a programme with special attention given to the offshore radio stations.  You can hear music from the sixties, seventies and eighties and a lot of tunes and jingles from the famous offshore radio stations.

In the early seventies Radio Nordsee International was Gerrits favourite station and now his show “The Internet where it’s good again” can be heard every week on RNI. Gerrit says “That feels good….”

Pete Forsyth played his first record to the public in March 1968, at the Cutting Edge pub in Barnsley, as one of the original DJs which made up DRM.  DRM was one of the first mobile disco companies in the country and very quickly developed a 'following' in many pubs in Yorkshire, especially in and around Halifax. In those days it was not unusual to find pubs which were packed to capacity on weekday nights! Other areas covered by DRM were Barnsley, Knottingley, Birmingham, Newcastle etc.
Having this kind of training was invaluable to him as it helped him to establish he’s own style and personality which he has carried on, and built up on, ever since. He then spent 10 years in Tenerife and Corfu, doing what he does best .... getting drunk and playing great music!
Since then he has concentrated on functions back in Yorkshire doing Weddings, Anniversaries, Christmas/New Year parties, After-Show parties for local AM-Dram societies and numerous Golf Club and corporate events. He has also been a presenter on various radio stations, mainly Hospital radio stations such as Hospital Radio Exeter and Radio Calderdale, and community radio stations Spark FM and Phoenix Radio. He was also one of the founder members of "Sol Radio" in Tenerife, a pirate radio station which became the main English Radio station on the island. He confesses I know absolutely nothing about the technical side, but have recently built my own studio at home, quite an achievement!  I am equally at home in the studio or in front of an audience (proper show-off, actually!).As long as I'm playing the music, I'm happy! (I don't get drunk now, though!) You can see more on my website: www.peteforsyth.co.uk
Pete can be heard presenting he’s show The Flash back Hour on RNI each Saturday at 8pm UK time.

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.

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.”

Jim Richman is a former and current 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 currently presents two afternoons a week on Radio Caroline and 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 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.
You can hear Paul on RNI every Saturday
11pm – midnight and Sunday 3-4am UK time.

Ferry Eden was born in 1955, before broadcasting from the high seas was even
thought of. As a youngster, he was particularly fond of classical music.
This would change in 1971 when a school friend suggested he tuned into RNI.
Ferry was soon bitten by the offshore radio bug and falling in love with the
pop tunes of the day. He became involved with land-based pirate radio in Utrecht in 1975. By the following year he'd started his own station, 'Hof van Holland'. In early
1977, Ferry applied for work as a DJ with Radio Mi Amigo at their studios in
Playa de Aro. It would seem that he was the last in line to be offered the
job by station owner, Sylvian Tack. In October 1977, after a period of
producing pre-recorded programmes, 'Hof van Eden' (Garden of Eden), he was given the opportunity to broadcast 'live' from the radio ship MV Mi Amigo.
Of course, he jumped at the chance!
In 1979, Ferry was the only member from the original Mi Amigo line-up to
begin broadcasts from the new radio ship, MS Magdalena. This chapter in the
station's history would only last one summer.
In the early eighties, Ferry, together with Gerrit Lettinck, was busy with a
Dutch radio project on the Italian Riviera. The plan was to establish a
'legal' footing for a new offshore station in the North Sea, as Mi Amigo had
done in Playa de Aro. This never came to fruition.

In 1983, he was asked to join Belgian station, Radio Maeva, the 'legal'
successor to Radio Mi Amigo. Six months later he moved to Radio Contact, a
bigger station based in Brussels.
In 1985 he returned to The Netherlands, but would soon be climbing aboard
yet another new radio ship, The Ross Revenge, to join Radio Monique.
Unfortunately, after a few years, Monique was unable to pay its on-air staff on a
regular basis. With this in mind, and with a young family to care for, Ferry
left the station in August 1987. His next move was as one of two 'live' DJ's
on regional station, Keistad FM.
In 1990, Ferry decided to put his radio career on hold and start up his own
business, turning his hobby into a profession. Buses, trolley buses, trains
and trams. If it's public transport, Ferry can write a book about it! By
summer 2009, he had already notched up fifteen publications. Find out more
by visiting studiovervoernederland.nl
In 2002, Martin Engel persuaded Ferry to join Radio 192, a Medium Wave
golden oldies station, and a focal point for many former offshore radio DJs. By early 2005, this had transformed into an internet station, Radio Mi Amigo
192. Both Ferry and his producer, Gerrit Lettinck stayed for a short while. The two moved to RNI in 2009. Ferry can now be heard presenting 'de Gouden van Dagen' every Saturday between 10-11 (CET). Don't miss it!

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.