Sealand

Today's episode begins with rock & roll and ends with royalty.
When bands like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were becoming
popular, they weren't played much on the radio in England. The BBC
controlled the airwaves at the time, and some listeners described
its music offerings as "square." So aspiring DJs packed up their
record collections, got in boats, and sailed past the territorial
limits of the UK, where they set up pirate radio stations in the
sea—sometimes on abandoned WWII sea forts. One fort was taken over
by a man named Roy Bates. When his pirate radio station didn’t work
out, he refused to give up the fort. He raised a flag on it and
announced that he and his family would be forming their own nation.
A spokesperson from Britain's Ministry of Defence said: "This is
ludicrous.” Michael Bates’ book is Principality of Sealand:
Holding the Fort, and Dylan Taylor-Lehman’s book is Sealand:
The True Story of the World’s Most Stubborn Micronation and Its
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