There is a project along the lines of 'The Long March of Everyman' to collect and restore lost &/or missing episodes of the 26-part radio series 'The British Seafarer.' In part this is to honour the producer Michael Mason's work, but also because the series has been well 'lost' and now may only exist on home taped cassettes.

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?q=the+british+seafarer#search

http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1405000869

Please add a comment here is you have any cassettes or reel-reel tapes that you could loan this project. Thank you