Tom Lodge

Thomas Odoard Marshall Lodge (16 April 1936 – 25 March 2012) was an English writer and radio broadcaster.

Lodge was a figure in British radio of the 1960s. He was a disc jockey on pirate-radio station Radio Caroline.

Early life Tom Lodge was born on 16 April 1936 at Forest Green, Surrey. He was the son of the writer Oliver W. F. Lodge and his second wife, Diana. His grandfather was the physicist Sir Oliver Lodge.

When World War II broke out, his family left England for the United States, where his father taught English literature.

Lodge was educated at Bedales School, England, where he developed his interest in music. He took lessons on the violin and the clarinet, taught himself the guitar and mouth organ, and played the stand-up bass in a four-piece skiffle band called the "Top Flat Ramblers".

When he was eighteen, Lodge travelled to Canada to Hay River, Northwest Territories, and worked in commercial fishing on the Great Slave Lake.

They had three sons: Tom Jr. (b. 1959, Yellowknife, North West Territories, Canada), Brodie (b. 1961, London, England), and Lionel (b. 1962, Inverness, Scotland). All three sons are involved in music, being significantly influenced and educated by their father. Tom Jr. is in his eleventh year of a weekly Sunday (9–11 p.m. UK time) music show (originating as "the two Toms" with Tom Sr.) which Tom Jr uploads from Canada to Radio Caroline in the UK. Radio Caroline turned fifty in March 2014. Tom also has three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Broadcasting In the late 1950s, Lodge moved to Yellowknife, where he worked in a gold mine until he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as an announcer.

In 1960, Lodge became the CBC manager for a new radio station, CBXH, in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, until he returned to England as a CBC correspondent.

In 1964, Lodge joined England's first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, as disc jockey and programme director. His book The Ship That Rocked the World describes his time there.