Complex sentence: Richard studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, Cambridge, before moving on to Essex and Kent universities by the early 1980s, he got involved with pirate and community radio broadcasting.
Split into simpler sentences: Richard studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, Cambridge, before moving on to Essex and Kent universities. In the early 1980s, he got involved with pirate and community radio broadcasting.