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Richard Dimbleby , with the BBC Mobile Recording Unit, visits the South Eastern District of Trinity House to meet some of. the men who are manning lightships, lighthouses, and pilot vessels a* Christmas. The men talk about their lives and jobs and choose their favourite music ;
Produced by John Shuter '
Many listeners will remember the programme which was broadcast direct from the Home Fleet on Boxing Day 1947. Each ' year when Christmas time comes round we try to bring you a programme which is slightly out of the ordinary run of things. This year, the theme is the men who are spending Christmas Day carrying out the I lonely task of manning the lightships, lighthouses, and pilot vessels in the South
Eastern District of Trinity House. Before ' Christmas a BBC pirty consisting of Richard Dimbleby , myself, and two mobile recording engineers, R. Wade and L. F. Lewis , embark in the Trinity House tender beacon, together with a mass of mobile recording equipment. We sail with Beacon on her regular relief run from East Cowes to the Shambles light-vessel. Our main enemy will be the weather, and for this reason we cannot be certain exactly what material we shall obtain, or whom we shall interview. But we are doing our very best to obtain a programme which we hope interests and amuses you this afternoon. John Shuter

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Richard Dimbleby
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Richard Dimbleby
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