Uncatalogued: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Radio Four Scripts: The British Seafarer, 1980

Twenty-six radio feature scripts for the series: Please contact archive staff for more information about ordering from this collection:
1. The Deep Sea.
2. Canvas, Hemp and Wood.
3. The High Seas.
4. The Merchants.
5. Charts, 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. Fishermen.
14. Paradise Street and Ratcliffe Highway.
15. Engineroom and Stokehold.
16. Master Mariner.
17. 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.
25. Supercarrier.
26. Offshore and Undersea.

Administrative / biographical background
The series was been in collaboration with the National Maritime Museum, Oral History Adviser, Campbell MacMurray. Chief consultants to the series were National Maritime Museum (NMM) Director, Basil Greenhill and Lecturer in Economic History, UCL, Robin Craig.

Record Details

Item reference: MSS/82/004; MS1982/004
Catalogue Section: Uncatalogued material
Level: COLLECTION
Extent: 2 boxes (box 1 contains parts 1-17, box 2 contains parts 18-26).
Date made: 1980
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London