Radio Free Marseille

Bio and how they support artists

Richard Pearson, the founder of Radio Free Marseille, started working at BBC Radio 1 in the 1970s and then moved to BBC network tv, where he produced music content, working on well over 1,000 programmes. Artistes worked with include Pete Gabriel, Dionne Warwick, Ian Dury, Barney Kessel, Elvis Costello, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Robert Fripp, Jose Carreras, Charles Aznavour etc, with UK tv debuts being given to Dr John/Mac Rebennack and King Sunny Ade and his African Beats, amongst others. He remained with BBC for ten years before going freelance in various areas of music production, creation and promotion, before semi-retiring. He was lured out of retirement in 2015 to run Radio Scarborough, eventually gaining the station an FM licence. Richard Pearson stepped down from Radio Scarborough FM in 2022, in order to launch Radio Free Marseille. Radio Free Marseille targets the English speaking audience in Marseille and the rest of the South of France, but has many global listeners. Our aim is not to be obtrusively 'different', but to play music that isn't really heard on other stations. In view of that we play music from all genres, but generally avoid mainstream pop music and 'oldies' programmes, as these can be heard on so many other stations. We have received a lot of interest from artistes making music in languages other than English, particularly French, so we've created a new programme called Foreign Affairs, just to cater for this and this programme will start transmitting shortly. We know there is lots of great music out there, that isn't getting the exposure it deserves and we want to hear it. We don't guarantee to make you a household name, overnight, but we can certainly get the ball rolling! Airplay, with supportive advice.

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