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Four Seasons in a Day

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Horizontal rain.... Force-9 gales ... even Force-7 fog in summer! In such conditions. thousands of imported construction workers built Europe's biggest oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland. On the eve of the official opening by HM The Queen, Jack Regan describes the tough negotiations between the oil men and the canny Shetlanders; how the islanders coped with the 'invasion' of 'sooth-moothers'; and the effect of all this on the economy and way of life in Shetland.
Producer BLAIR THOMPSON long wave only

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Unknown:
Jack Regan
Producer:
Blair Thompson
Source: Radio Times

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