Tony Blackburn, Johnnie Walker, Leona Graham and Shaun Keaveny are among the radio personalities joining the line-up for the Absolute Radio Pirates Day, August 12, which will 'celebrate the music and personalities of the pirate radio stations of the 60s'.

Paul Sylvester, Content Director for the station, commented 'Modern radio wouldn’t exist without these titans of broadcasting who introduced British audiences to the likes of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin. We’re proud to pay tribute in a typically unique Absolute Radio way, disrupting the airwaves with an incredible soundtrack, legendary voices, compelling archive and the recreation of vintage news bulletins and ad-breaks. If you loved Absolute Radio 40s, well, we’ve fast-forwarded a couple of decades for another appointment-to-listen day of radio'.