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Title: BEDROOM RADIO

Reference number: 7273

Date: 2002

Director: d. Doug Aubrey

Sponsor: Scottish TV, Scottish Screen Lottery Funded, Grampian TV

Production company: Autonomi

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 41.42 mins

Description: Bedroom Radio is a story of pirate radio broadcasting: love, life and death on a different frequency. A world in which 'you're definitely written off before you start'. Irony rules at the fringe of Scottish society when what is positive is illegal.

Scottish premiere held on Thursday 5th February 2004 in the CCA bar, Scott Street, Glasgow. Produced under the This Scotland 2002 scheme.

View on Automi TV channel on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwAPZyY-sOI [last accessed 02/05/2022]

Awards:
Beirut DocuDays Official Selection 2005
Chicago International Documentary Festival Official Selection 2003
Detroit International Documentary Festival Official Selection 2003
Melbourne International Film Festival Official Selection 2004
Expression en Corto Mexico Official Selection 2004
UNAM Fes Acatlan Mexico Official Selection 2004
Big Sky Montana International Documentary Festival Official Selection 2004
MovieEye Moscow Documentary Film Festival: Official Selection 2005
Real Life on Film Melbourne Official Selection 2005

Credits: With thanks to Yvonne and Gary's families and friends; Mojji (the dog); 23rd pecinct and Limbo Records; Hard On Recordings; Colin Kelly and Real Radio; Becky Lloyd; Varsova; GMAC

p. accountant Ian Reid
online ed. Gillian Simpson, Mark Huskisson
dubbing mixer John L. Cobban
film ed. William Summers
exec. p. Henry Eagles, Robin MacPherson, Agnes Wilkie
p. Marie Olesen
d. / camera Doug Aubrey

In Memory of DJ Allusion 1980 - 2002 www.allusionfm.tk

Autonomi in association with Scottish TV, Scottish Screen Lottery Funded, Grampian TV

Shotlist: Bedroom Radio follows the lives of a young couple Gary and Yvonne and their 3-legged pit bull terrier Moji.

Gary (DJ Illusion) dreams of being a star DJ and runs an illegal pirate radio station most nights and weekends from their spare bedroom. That is until he’s raided, arrested and has his equipment confiscated by Police and Government Home-Office officials.

Yvonne (DJ Miss-chief) worried though she is that Gary may face prison if he’s convicted of broadcasting illegally, eventually succumbs and agrees to let Gary buy a new radio transmitter to continue his broadcasts in defiance of the law.

In-between Gary’s pirate radio broadcasts we get to know the couple, finding out that Yvonne was first a mother when she was just 13 and has had 3 children by different Fathers. We also hear about their future dreams together, until tragedy intervenes in their Pirate Radio love story.

[information from http://www.dougaubrey.eu/glasgow-2001-20013/, last accessed 02/05/2022]