Britt Wadner

Britt Wadner (16 January 16, 1915 – 13 March 1987 Båstad) was a Swedish pirate radio manager.

Early life Britt Wadner was born on 16 January 1915 in Linköping to Tyra and Martin Wadner, the oldest of five daughters. Her family were well-off, her father was in the military, a second lieutenant in Första livgrenadjärregementet, when her parents married. Wadner grew up in Östermalm in Stockholm and attended the French school there. Her mother, Tyra Wadner, founded the ‘lotta’ Swedish Women’s Voluntary Defence Organisation movement in the 1920s. Wadner modelled the very first ‘lotta’ uniform, made for her by her mother, in the Swedish press. When Wadner was in her teens, her family relocated to Växjö, but she missed Stockholm, moving back at age 17 and working as an office clerk for Postgirot.

In 1966, she moved to the Gambia, where she was involved in radio and tourism and was also allowed to broadcast from land.

Imprisonment Wadner was sentenced three times for violation of the law, the last time being given three months in prison. The sentence was served at the Hinseberg women's prison.