Cecil Abraham Morris (PCRL Founder)

In the early 80s Cecil Morris was running Rising Star Records and Management from a shop at 151 Dudley Road Birmingham.

Apache Indian 'Movie Over India' (1991)
He asked Cecil for his help and PCRL put him on our 6th Birthday Show. The crowd loved him. Movie Over India was an instant success. Bringing the Jamaican and Asian's together for a while. PCRL ran talk shows for both communities.

PCRL 6th Birthday Bashment party featuring : Apache Indian live at the Hummingbird night club in birmingham City Centre

Black people were not allowed to have our own radios! PCRL (People's Community Radio Link) was a pirate radio station in Birmingham, UK. It began in 1985 as an attempt to quell civil unrest during the Handsworth Riots. Other illegal black radio stations operated in black London. In fact today, most pirate radio stations operate around the black areas of London. PCRL closed in February 2004 after the station organisers were ordered to carry out community service and "prime mover" Cecil Morris was given a suspended prison sentence for illegal broadcasting


Political programming has been a feature of the many black community pirate radio stations that have grown in the UK since the 1980s.The mission entertain & inform the black community.

The station combines reggae and soca with robust articulation of "black empowerment against a system designed our oppress our brothers and sisters" and live phone-in discussions.

This was a BIG G Video production 1990's

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