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Vanishing Heroes

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

A feature on the theme of exploration by AIDAN HIGGINS with
Michael Tudor Barnes as Jacques Piccard
In 1931. Auguste Piccard ascended ten miles into the troposphere above
Augsburg in the enclosed gondola of a balloon. In 1960. his son Jacques descended ten miles into the Challenger Deep off Guam in a bathyscaphe. Between these points in time and space, man is observed groping in luminous darkness.
' Can't you see that this room. though closed, is endless? The labyrinth it pictures is your consciousness.'
With
STEVE HODSON. CRAWFORD LOGAN. STEPHEN THORNE and PATIENCE TOMLINSON
Presenter HUGH DICKSON
Special sounds composed by DICK MILLS Directed by JOHN THEOCHARIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Aidan Higgins
Unknown:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Unknown:
Jacques Piccard
Unknown:
Auguste Piccard
Unknown:
Steve Hodson. Crawford Logan.
Unknown:
Stephen Thorne
Presenter:
Hugh Dickson
Directed By:
John Theocharis
the Censor:
Norman Rodway
Auguste Piccard:
David de Keyser
Kipfer:
Nicholas Courtney
American:
Kerry Shale
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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