Grant Benson is a British-born broadcaster and music consultant who currently works for
Radio Number One in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

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Benson started his career in 1981 working for the Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

i "pirate radio

Pirate radio

Pirate radio is illegal or unregulated radio transmission. The term is most commonly used to describe illegal broadcasting for entertainment or political purposes, but is also sometimes used for illegal two-way radio operation...

" station The Voice of Peace

Voice of Peace

Voice of Peace was an offshore radio station that served the Middle East for 20 years from the former Dutch cargo vessel MV Peace , anchored off the coast of Tel Aviv...

 before moving to
Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline is an English radio station founded in 1964 by Ronan O'Rahilly to circumvent the record companies' control of popular music broadcasting in the United Kingdom and the BBC's radio broadcasting monopoly...

, Rete 105 and RTL 102.5

RTL 102.5

RTL 102.5 is a private Italian radio station. Despite its name, this radio station is not endorsed or affiliated with RTL Group.It has been the first Italian radio station using the format Contemporary hit radio, which involves the broadcasting of greatest hits only.The RTL 102.5 group includes...

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His native language is English and he speaks Italian fluently. He currently resides in Lugano

Lugano

Lugano is a city of inhabitants in the city proper and a total of over 145,000 people in the agglomeration/city region, in the south of Switzerland, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, which borders Italy...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

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External links

• http://www.grantbenson.com
• http://www.radionumberone.it
• http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8189249.stm

Further reading

Pop Went The Pirates, Keith Skues, Lambs' Meadow Publ. 1994. ISBN 978-0907398035

Pirate Radio : Then And Now, Stuart Henry and Mike von Joel, Blandford Press. 1984. ISBN 0-7137-1497-2

Radio pirata. Rock, libertà, trasgressione e nuovi linguaggi radiofonici. Le straordinarie imprese dei bucanieri dell'etere, Andrea Borgnino, Ed. Persiani