The boat that rocked

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This document is an article about The Real Story Behind Britain Rock 'n' Roll Pirates by the NPR.

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On the photo we can see a radio commentator filmed by a cameraman and another man in a very narrow room. This would be the British show World In Action which is shooting a show on the pirate radio aboard the Mi Amigo.

3) a) and c)

They didn't only broadcasted only children's programs and they didn't not broadcast any Rock music, these are the two reasons of the creation of pirate radios.

L.1-3 : "The BBC (British Broadcasting Channel) favored a diet of news, information, light entertainments and children's programs.".

"the rock 'n' roll revolution that was spreading like wildfire in the United States had been all but banished from the British airwaves.".

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based = s'inspire/basé sur

5) b)

L.2 "the rock 'n' roll revolution that was spreading like wildfire in the United States had been all but banished from the British airwaves.".

6)

L.17 "The pirates' off-coast locations strategically put them in international waters and thus out of British authorities' legal reach".

7)

L.28 "The law sounded the official death for most of the pirate stations.".

L.32 "many of the shipwrecked DJs went to work for their former enemies at the BBC.".

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Some of my favorite memories of when I was a kid were watching cartoons on TV in the morning or at night. At the time we had real cartoons with good stories that passed, like for example: Foot 2 rue, Marcelino, Les mini justiciers, Les ratz, beyblade métal fusion, wakfu...

My childhood boils down to watching these cartoons that were just great, and sometimes it makes me nostalgic when I see my brother watching these stupid cartoons these days that are made in horrible 3D and have really lousy stories and dialogues.

So to assure him a healthy childhood often, I show him the good old cartoons that I watched before and I take this opportunity to remind myself of the good times when I hurried home from school to watch Beyblade at 5pm on Gulli (135 words)

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