ground-breaking, before-its-time, light entertainment show beamed down to the UK from a circling airplane. This was for a pirate TV station run by the then infamous Ronan O'Rahilly, who began the first-ever pirate radio station, Radio Caroline in the 1960s. Soon after that, he turned to documentaries and commercials and then moved into the world of feature films. In the mid 1970s, Birkinshaw's production of Alice in Wonderland ran into difficulties when the RSPCA banned him from using live flamingos in the croquet scene. In an interview with ITN, the director of the London Zoo described Birkinshaw as 'barmy'. One of his early films was Killer's Moon. Killer's Moon was described in the acclaimed "Shepperton Babylon" as the most tasteless movie in the history of the British Cinema. In spite of comments like this, Killer's Moon continues to receive write ups in important film magazines and cinema books, and some 40 years after its first release, is still being sold all over the world, and has since become a cult classic film. Realising that making a movie was only one element in the chain of bringing back the investment of movie finance, Birkinshaw set up his own distribution company, West World Films - with moderate success. But it was soon back to production and he produced a cinema documentary Once Upon A Chance which followed a young adventurer travelling around the world in less than 48 hours on £50. The premiere of this took place in the ABC Cinema in London's Shaftesbury Avenue. 1980s and 1990s In the early 80's, Birkinshaw made another cinema documentary about the Henley Royal Regatta, and a short cinema thriller which he wrote and directed called Dead End. This was followed by several concerts in the Albert Hall, The first, a dramatized concert which Birkinshaw also wrote, featuring Gilbert and Sullivan (played by Peter Cellier as Gilbert and John Rapley as Sullivan) watching their works performed by guest soloists and the Royal Choral Society - The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan., This was followed by An Orchestral Tribute to the Beatles with Joan Collins presenting the 140 piece Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society, in the presence of Queen Elizabeth ll, The Duke of Edinburgh and Paul McCartney. A third concert in the Albert Hall was Not So Silent Night – A Christmas story told in carols. This was in the presence of