Lodge, Thomas Odod Marshall

Thomas Odod Marshall Lodge was born on April 16, 1936 in Forest Green, Surrey . He was the son of writer Oliver W.F. Lodge and his wife Diana, as well as the grandson of physicist Sir Oliver Lodge , one of the inventors of the radio. At the beginning of World War II, his family left Britain . Thomas grew up in Maryland and Virginia . At the end of the war, he returned with his family to the UK and settled near Pineswick County Gloucestershire . Thomas was educated at the British Bedales School , where he showed interest in music. He took violin and clarinet lessons and studied guitar and harmonica on his own. He played the double bass as part of a musical sciffle band called Top Flat Ramblers.

At the age of 18, he went to the Canadian city ​​of Hay River , where he worked in fish farming on the Great Slave Lake . While fishing with a partner, he fell into ice water. His partner died, and Thomas was rescued by hunters. Thomas described these adventures in his first book, known as Beyond the Great Slave Lake . The book was published by Cassells in 1957 and EP Dutton in 1958. In 1956, Thomas returned to Britain . After his marriage, he returned to the Hay River and engaged in fishing.

In the late 1950s, Thomas moved to Yellowknife , where he worked at a gold mine, until he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) as a broadcaster at CFYK. Since 1960, Lodge has served as manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at a new radio station known as CBTK-FM in Fort Smith of the Northwest Territories until his return to the UK as a CBC correspondent. In 1964, Thomas Lodge began work as a DJ and program director at the first offshore pirate radio station in the UK , known as Radio Caroline ^[3] . His book “ The Ship that Rocked the World ” describes the time spent there.

After the legislative banning of pirate broadcasting ships in 1967, Thomas worked as a DJ on the newly created BBC Radio 1 . In 1968, the Lodge became a DJ on CHLO in Canadian St. Thomas, which is now known as the CKDK-FM radio station. In 1970, Lodge founded a creative program at Fanshawe College in Canada, called "Creative Electronics," which two years later became a training program for engineers and record producers.

In 1975, California began to practice Zen Lodge. In January 1998, he was given the name Umi and he himself began to direct people in Zen. He founded the Stillpoint Zen Community Ashram near the city of Santa Cruz in California. ^[4] In this community, Thomas Lodge died of cancer on March 25, 2012. ^[5] This happened exactly 46 years after March 25, 1966, he left the ship from which Radio Caroline was broadcasting in order to take an exclusive interview with The Beatles in London . Paul McCartney once said that the Lodge should have been chivalrous for its contribution to launching the British air invasion groups ^[2] .

Wife - Jeanine Arpourettes, sons:

• Tom Lodge Jr. (born 1959 in Yellowknife) is a presenter on Radio Caroline ^[6] .
• Brodie (born 1961 in London)
• Lionel (born 1962 in Inverness ) is a songwriter and performer.

• Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (Cassells, 1958)
• Beyond the Great Slave Lake, (EP Dutton, 1959)
• Success Without Goals, (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1992)
• Circles, Tom Lodge Becoming Umi (Lloyds Mayfair Group, 1993)
• Footprints in the Snow, (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 2010) ^[7]
• God is a Dancer, (Umi Foundation, 2007)
• The Diamond Sutra with Umi, (Church of Consciousness, 2008)