Pirate Radio: Rocking the Industry with Terry Bate

What a treat to come across this recording!

I enjoyed the film and do just about remember Radio Caroline from my childhood.

However, those weren't the real treats for me. You see I had the great pleasure of working for Terry a few years ago, whilst he ran the Television Corporation PLC, here in the UK.

For me it was fascinating to hear Terry talk about managing creative and business personnel back in the '60s. I was able to compare Terry's reminiscences with the problems we all faced doing the same thing in the early years of this decade and, indeed, today.

So many people get enterprises off the ground through passion and vim but without the internal business discipline necessary to make any real money. Without the money coming in many start-ups founder and their loyal supporters and customers are let down.

Commerce is bad and creativity is good? The truth is that each relies on the other for survival.

I hope the "Terrys" of today's generation continue to be discovered and introduced to the splendid lunatics we look to for true innovation.

Terry Bate is a very rare sort of chap. He possesses, and actively nurtures, a quick and enquiring mind, he has gained a wealth of extraordinary life experiences, but most of all he understands his fellow man. His insight into the core simplicities of business (he once described the key to a successful business thus "Find a human need and satisfy it.") cuts through the waffle and self-serving complexity of board room speak to the chagrin of some, the delight of others and certainly to the profitability of the organisation.

So, many thanks for interviewing Terry Bate about this very English story!

Hugh