BBC The British Seafarer

Subject: BBC The British Seafarer
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 09 Nov 15 - 05:03 AM

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

Subject: RE: BBC The British Seafarer
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 13 Nov 15 - 06:29 AM

Here are the episodes, each 1 hour long:

The British Seafarer
1 Introduction - The Deep Sea
2 Canvas, Hemp and Wood
3 The High Seas
4 The Merchants
5 Charts, Sea-Clocks and Stars,
6 The Complete Seaman
7 Stresses, Strains and Storms
8 The Long Blockade
9 Owners
10 Size, Steel and Steam
11 Missing, Lost and Saved
12 The Tramp and the Liner
13 Fisherman
14 Paradise Street and Ratcliffe Highway
15 Engine-room and Stokehold
16 Master Mariner
17 The Small Port
18 Seamanship
19 The Mate, the Bosun and the Cook
20 The Dreadnought Navy
21 The Big Port
22 Unions
23 Jutland
24 The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45
25 Supercarrier
26 Offshore and Undersea

Subject: RE: BBC The British Seafarer
From: GUEST,SByers
Date: 26 Jan 16 - 04:21 AM

We now have these episodes on CD (actually DVD RAM) - each file is 500MB in FLAC format. They have been digitised by an expert from reel-reel off-air recordings. They are just about broadcast quality. The search continues for the other episodes.

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2        Canvas, Hemp and Wood (intro / outro missing)
3        The High Seas        
4        The Merchants
5        Charts, Sea-Clocks and Stars        
6        The Complete Seaman
7        Stresses, Strains and Storms
8        The Long Blockade
11        Missing, Lost and Saved
13        Fisherman
20        The Dreadnought Navy
23        Jutland        
24        The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-45 (first 45 min)

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Now what to do with the recovered recordings is a moot point.

Subject: RE: BBC The British Seafarer
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 26 Jan 16 - 10:56 AM

I wonder if the British Sound Archives would be interested in copies?