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A commentary on the dispersal of the wreck of the Dunbar Castle
Commentators,
Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Henry Riddell
Many wrecks still remain around the coasts of Britain which are a danger to navigation: and in order to render shipping lanes safe these wrecks are being blown up and dispersed. One of the larger wrecks is the Dunbar Castle lying a few miles off Ramsgate. It is already two-thirds dispersed and today another charge is being fired to reduce the final third. The work is being carried out from one of the wreck dispersal ships of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Lundy

Contributors

Unknown:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Unknown:
Henry Riddell

by Francis Brett Young
Adapted by Olivia Manning
Final episode: 'Parthian Arrows'
Produced by William Hughes
Shortly after the outbreak of the 1914 war old Di. Hammond dies and Jonathan Dakers, realising that Rachel Hammond loves him, decides to ask her to marry him. But news comes that his brother Harold is missing, believed killed, and Edie Martyn, the girl Jonathan has always Joved, seeks his advice and help because she is to have Harold's child. Jonathan marries Edie tcr protect her, but the baby :s killed in a motor accident. Shortly afterwards a letter arrives from Harold who has been severely wounded and is in a prisoner-of-war camp.

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis Brett Young
Adapted By:
Olivia Manning
Produced By:
William Hughes
Narrator:
Ivan Samson
Mrs Perry:
Mary Wimbush
Mrs Gaige:
Gwen Berryman
Mrs Dakers:
Ann Codrington
Edie Martyn:
Mary Williams
Harold Dakers:
Lewis Stringer
Jonathan Dakers:
Philip Cunningham
Arthur Martock:
Peter Bentley
Rachel Hammond:
Anne Cullen
Dr Craig:
Derek Birch
Lloyd Moore:
Geoffrey Lewis

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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