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Sonic Borderscapes in Richard Curtis’s Film The Boat that Rocked (2009)

This article examines the representation of pirate radio and sonic borderscapes in Richard Curtis’s film The Boat That Rocked (UK, 2009), a comedy set in the heyday of offshore pirate radio operating beyond national borders in the 1960s. The article applies the critical concept of the borderscape, this is, a space where different border-related phenomena emerge, to show how established narratives of nation and community are challenged from the margins by using the image of pirate radio as a maker of new border-crossing sounds that transform established ideas of community and belonging.