A fictional pirate radio station starts broadcasting from a converted Flemish fishing boat anchored off Scarborough. Eighteen-year old disc jockey, Joe Barker, has a childhood bullying has left him with a debilitating stammer. Joe, an assumed name, speaks fluently on air but clams up on dry land. Love of his life, Julia, doesn’t realise this. Time is running out for the pirates. Local MP Dan Witton is furious to discover his old playground enemy, Stan Metcalfe, is the man behind the station. Witton plots to sink the little ship and is drafting laws that will outlaw the pirates. Mystery American Ricky Johnson wants to help but has his own troubled past to deal with. Faced by Dan Witton’s raiding parties and storm force gales, disc jockeys Joe and Ricky and the crew battle on. Is free speech, rock and roll, and the summer of love doomed? Broadcasting from the rolling deeps of the North Sea, Radio A-Go-Go thinks she has has the answers.