# Tom Lodge > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tom_Lodge > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tom_Lodge.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lodge > Source revision: 1355363744 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English writer and radio broadcaster (1936–2012)}} {{Use British English|date=October 2012}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} 250px|right ''' Thomas Odoard Marshall Lodge''' (16 April 1936 – 25 March 2012) was an English writer and radio broadcaster.{{cite web|author=Reaney, James|url=https://lfpress.com/entertainment/2012/03/26/19550621.html|title=Pirate radio DJ 'leaves wake' | Entertainment|publisher=Lfpress.com|access-date=2012-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120408062512/https://lfpress.com/entertainment/2012/03/26/19550621.html|archive-date=2012-04-08}} Lodge was a figure in British radio of the 1960s. He was a disc jockey on [pirate-radio](/source/pirate_radio) station [Radio Caroline](/source/Radio_Caroline). ==Early life== Tom Lodge was born on 16 April 1936 at [Forest Green, Surrey](/source/Forest_Green%2C_Surrey). He was the son of the writer [Oliver W. F. Lodge](/source/Oliver_W._F._Lodge) and his second wife, Diana. His grandfather was the physicist Sir [Oliver Lodge](/source/Oliver_Lodge).{{cite news |last= Leigh |first= Spencer |date= 2 April 2012 |title= Tom Lodge: Presenter with Radio Caroline who later studied Zen |work= The Independent |issue= 7950 |page= 38 }}{{cite news |title= Tom Lodge: Radio Caroline DJ, broadcasting teacher, Zen master |date= 1 April 2012 |work= Calgary Herald |page= 29 }} When [World War II](/source/World_War_II) broke out, his family left England for the United States, where his father taught English literature. At the end of the war, they returned to England and lived near [Painswick](/source/Painswick), Gloucestershire.{{cite news |last= Wakefield |first= Nick |date= 12 April 2012 |title= Music mourns the death of Painswick-bred Radio Caroline DJ Tom Lodge, 75 |work= Stroud News & Journal |url= https://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/9646300.music-mourns-the-death-of-painswick-bred-radio-caroline-dj-tom-lodge-75/ |access-date= 10 April 2025 }} Lodge was educated at [Bedales School](/source/Bedales_School), England, where he developed his interest in music. He took lessons on the violin and the clarinet, taught himself the guitar and mouth organ, and played the stand-up bass in a four-piece [skiffle band](/source/skiffle_band) called the "Top Flat Ramblers".{{Cite news |title= Tom Lodge |date=27 March 2012 |work= Daily Telegraph |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/9169986/Tom-Lodge.html |access-date= 10 April 2025 |url-access=subscription }} When he was eighteen, Lodge travelled to Canada to [Hay River, Northwest Territories](/source/Hay_River%2C_Northwest_Territories), and worked in commercial fishing on the [Great Slave Lake](/source/Great_Slave_Lake). While fishing with a colleague, he was blown out into open waters on an [ice floe](/source/ice_floe). His companion died, but Lodge was rescued by some trappers. He described his adventures in his first book, ''Beyond the Great Slave Lake'' (published by [Cassell](/source/Cassell_(publisher)) in 1957 and [E.P. Dutton](/source/E.P._Dutton) in 1958). In 1956, he returned to England and married Jeanine Arpourettes in the following year.{{cite news |title= Sweet Caroline – the DJ who anchored the boat that rocked |date= 31 March 2012 |work= Irish Independent |page= T10 }} They had three sons: Tom Jr. (b. 1959, [Yellowknife](/source/Yellowknife), North West Territories, Canada), Brodie (b. 1961, [London](/source/London), England), and Lionel (b. 1962, [Inverness](/source/Inverness), Scotland). All three sons are involved in music, being significantly influenced and educated by their father. Tom Jr. is in his eleventh year of a weekly Sunday (9–11 p.m. UK time) music show (originating as "the two Toms" with Tom Sr.) which Tom Jr uploads from Canada to Radio Caroline in the UK. Radio Caroline turned fifty in March 2014. Tom also has three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. ==Broadcasting== In the late 1950s, Lodge moved to [Yellowknife](/source/Yellowknife), where he worked in a [gold mine](/source/gold_mine) until he joined the [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation](/source/Canadian_Broadcasting_Corporation) as an announcer. On 27 May 1959, a son, Tom Lodge Jr., was born. Tom Jr. is a presenter on Radio Caroline.[http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#profiles.html Radio Caroline Profiles ''(Retrieved 21 February 2011)''] In 1960, Lodge became the CBC manager for a new radio station, [CBXH](/source/CBTK-FM), in [Fort Smith, Northwest Territories](/source/Fort_Smith%2C_Northwest_Territories), until he returned to England as a CBC correspondent. In 1964, Lodge joined England's first offshore pirate radio station, [Radio Caroline](/source/Radio_Caroline),{{cite web|url=http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/story.htm |title=The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame: Tom Lodge's Radio Caroline Story |publisher=Offshoreradio.co.uk |accessdate=2012-03-26}} as disc jockey and programme director. His book ''The Ship That Rocked the World'' describes his time there. The 2009 [comedy-drama](/source/comedy-drama) film ''[Pirate Radio](/source/Pirate_Radio_(film))'' is based on the book. After the outlawing of the pirate radio ships in by the [Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967](/source/Marine%2C_%26c.%2C_Broadcasting_(Offences)_Act_1967), he worked as a disc jockey for the BBC's newly created [Radio 1](/source/BBC_Radio_1). In 1968, Lodge became a disc jockey on [CHLO-AM](/source/CHLO-AM), [St. Thomas, Ontario](/source/St._Thomas%2C_Ontario), Canada, where he continued to build his reputation for breaking new music. In 1973, he founded a creative program at [Fanshawe College](/source/Fanshawe_College), in [London, Ontario](/source/London%2C_Ontario), Canada, called "Creative Electronics", which after three years he made into [Music Industry Arts](/source/Music_Industry_Arts_program), a training program for recording engineers and record producers. Tom Sr., although resigned from radio, continued to contribute to his son Tom Jr.'s weekly Radio Caroline show when he was able. Also, he did two last shows for his beloved Radio Caroline, one being his personal history of Radio Caroline and the music that was integral to it, the other being a close look at the history and importance of the lead guitar, playing the lead-guitar solos that changed rock n roll. Both shows are still available in the Caroline web shop. ==Umi== In 1975, in California, Lodge began practising [Zen](/source/Zen). In January 1998, his Master changed his name to Umi and he began guiding people in Zen. He had a [zendo](/source/zendo), "Stillpoint Zen Community", near [Santa Cruz, California](/source/Santa_Cruz%2C_California).{{cite news|url=http://cashboxcanada.ca/tom-lodge-and-radio-caroline|title=Tom Lodge and Radio Caroline|author=Chris Hahn|author2=Kathy Hahn | date=10 October 2009|accessdate=16 July 2010|publisher=[Cashbox Magazine, Canada](/source/Cash_Box)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706172807/http://cashboxcanada.ca/tom-lodge-and-radio-caroline|archive-date=6 July 2011}} ==Bibliography== * ''Beyond the Great Slave Lake'' ([Cassell](/source/Cassell_(publisher)), 1958) * ''Beyond the Great Slave Lake'' ([E. P. Dutton](/source/E._P._Dutton), 1959) * ''Success Without Goals'' ([Lloyds Mayfair Group](/source/Lloyds_Mayfair_Group), 1992) * ''Circles,Tom Lodge Becoming Umi'' ([Lloyds Mayfair Group](/source/Lloyds_Mayfair_Group), 1993) * ''Footprints in the Snow'' ([Umi Foundation](/source/Umi_Foundation), 2000) * ''The River and the Raven'' (Umi Foundation, 2002) * ''Enlightenment Guaranteed'' (Umi Foundation, 2002) * ''The Radio Caroline Story'' (Umi Foundation, 2002) * ''The Ship That Rocked the World, How Radio Caroline Defied the Establishment, Launched the British Invasion and Made the Planet Safe for Rock and Roll'' ([Bartleby Press](/source/Bartleby_Press) 2010){{cite web|url=http://www.shipthatrocked.com/ |title=The Ship that Rocked the World |publisher=Shipthatrocked.com |accessdate=2012-03-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309065402/http://www.shipthatrocked.com/|archive-date=2012-03-09}} * ''God Is a Dancer'' (Umi Foundation, 2007) * ''The Diamond Sutra with Umi'' (Church of Consciousness, 2008) ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lodge, Tom}} Category:1936 births Category:2012 deaths Category:20th-century English male writers Category:20th-century English non-fiction writers Category:21st-century English male writers Category:21st-century English non-fiction writers Category:BBC Radio 1 presenters Category:CBC Radio hosts Category:English expatriates in Canada Category:English expatriates in the United States Category:English founders Category:English male non-fiction writers Category:English radio DJs Category:Fanshawe College Category:Offshore radio broadcasters Category:People educated at Bedales School Category:People from Gloucester County, Virginia Category:People from Hay River Category:People from St. Thomas, Ontario Category:Pirate radio personalities Category:Writers from Gloucestershire Category:Writers from Ontario Category:Writers from Surrey Category:Writers from Yellowknife --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Tom Lodge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lodge) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lodge?action=history)). 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