A broadcast from
Beachy Head Lighthouse
The view of Beachy Head lighthouse from the top of the cliff is familiar to nearly everyone who has been to Eastbourne. It looks near enough, lying away below, a few hundred yards out at sea, accessible across rocks at low tide. But this method of reaching and leaving it would be impracticable for those who man it. They go and come by motor-boat, an hour's run from
Eastbourne Pier. And that is the way . those concerned in the broadcast will go this even;ng.
It will be just upon dark, approaching high tide ; the lamps will be working and their beams will be floating across the sea. Listeners are to hear the normal routine of a lighthouse in action with its accompanying sounds-the turning of the lamps, the mewing of gulls, the lapping of the waves. The two keepers on duty-they have a two-months' spell and are isolated except for the telephone-will be heard at work and they will describe their life which, for the most part, is spent so near, and yet so far from, the land.