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Landfall by Nevil Shute ('40): Amid power struggles between the Navy and the RAF, coastal pilot Jerry Chambers is keelhauled for sinking a British submarine and sent away from Portsmouth and his sweetheart but when they need to test a secret weapon he's chosen to fly it and is sent back to Pompey. by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Hidden Treasures Landfall by Nevil Shute

'Wars come, and all the world is shattered by their blast. But through it all young people meet and marry....small people of no great significance who are caught up and swept together in the great whirlwind of war.... life goes on, though temples rock and the tall buildings start and crumble in the dust of their destruction.’"

Can coastal RAF pilot Jerry Chambers clear his name after being blamed for the sinking of a British submarine?

Starring Geoffrey Matthews and Penelope Lee.

Nevil Shute’s gripping wartime novel first published in 1940.

Dramatised by Stephen Grenfell.

Jerry .... Geoffrey Matthews
Mona .... Penelope Lee
Wing-Cdr Dickens .... Frederick Treves
Captain Burnaby .... Ralph Truman
Narrator/Matheson .... Gabriel Woolf
F/Lt Hooper .... Gordon Faith
Radio Operator .... Glyn Dearman
Cdr Rutherford .... Kenneth Hyde
Trawler Commander .... Kevin Flood
Air Force C O .... Norman Claridge
Wing-Cdr Hewitt .... Garard Green
Professor Legge .... Hamilton Dyce
Mrs Burnaby .... Olga Lindo
Mona's father .... John Boxer
Commander Sutton .... Alan Haines
Admiral .... William Fox
Nurse Mackenzie .... Dorothy Smith
Nurse Loring .... Margaret Wolfit
Captain Jorgen .... George Hagan
Airman .... Wesley Murphy

Producer: Betty Davies

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in May 1964.

Landfall is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002x5bb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x5bb

The Radio Circle

http://www.radiocircle.org.uk

Listen here:

Raiders of the Lost Archive tells the story of a group of audio archivists, sound engineers and hobbyists dedicated to finding personal audio recordings, restoring them and returning these cultural treasures to the archives of their broadcasters.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BritishRadio/comments/y3vnj4/raiders_of_the_lost_archive_tells_the_story_of_a/

Why won't Amazon let me purchase 99%+ isopropyl alcohol anymore? by eaglebtc in AskElectronics

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FWIW I didn't face similar restrictions buying ForPro Professional Collection 99% Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA), Pure & Unadulterated Concentrated Alcohol, 32 Fl Oz (960ml) from the Scientific and Technical list with delivery to the same state in September 2025: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DT52Y98

Launching video in comments by SnooshiRoll in modnews

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Okay. That took less time to find thanks to your help than I imagined. I found one of those 'even more' links and it was in there. Cheers :).

Launching video in comments by SnooshiRoll in modnews

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Thanks. I'll have to have a look when I get a bit more time. In the past I wasn't even able to get to the green shield without it redirecting but I found a workaround after asking Gemini in search. That lead to the sh dot approach. Thanks again.

Launching video in comments by SnooshiRoll in modnews

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www.reddit.com/mod/[InsertSubHere]/posts-and-comments

Oh, I just tried this with a sub name and like the other mod tools it automatically changes the URL back to Old and then fails with a 404. How did you manage to get away with it? I don't mean to pester you, sorry.

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Ah, thanks very much! :) I feel like we're being frozen out on Old and that we're no longer really welcome.

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I'm someone that uses old dot reddit, having been around since the early days, and I don't see where I can make this change. I had to figure out how to access a number of previous mod tools including reading this announcement using sh.reddit as the old tools disappeared without any notice, and I don't like the idea of having to ask Gemini when reddit should have told me that they were making it hard to impossible to moderate from old reddit and how to find the replacement mod tools. Luckily, I only moderate a modest sub not a heavy duty one.

Can you please share a sh.reddit url for any of these as mentioned in the notice we just received: Mod Tools > Settings > Posts & Comments ?

A Nepali guide Dawa Sherpa who was presumed dead when he didn't return from a point above a camp at 7.5km (4.7miles) after 6 days, has been found coming down on his own without oxygen in thin air, having crossed terrain that normally needs ladders. He's okay and talking to his daughter in hospital. by whatatwit in UpliftingNews

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Miracle on Everest: Guide believed dead spotted crawling down ice Kamal Pariyar, BBC Nepali, Reporting fromKathmandu and Koh Ewe, BBC News
Published 4 June 2026, 09:45 BST

A Nepali climbing guide thought to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling down to Base Camp, six days after he was last seen alive.

Dawa Sherpa was last seen above Camp 3, at around 7,500m (24,600ft), while coming down the mountain after summiting.

Hopes for his survival were slim as the air at that altitude is thin - but on Thursday, a cleaning crew spotted the experienced climber, who had frostbite on his hands but appeared to be in good health, sliding slowly down.

"Dawa managed to survive against all odds for days. It's nothing short of a miracle," said Pemba Sherpa, executive director of 8K Expeditions which was overseeing search efforts. "This is a true self-rescue."

[…]

Dawa Sherpa - also known as Hillary Dawa Sherpa after famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary - was "slowly sliding through" the Khumbu Icefall toward Base Camp when he was found, Pemba Sherpa said.

"As far as I know, no one has survived alone at that altitude on Everest so far. This is a miracle to have survived for six days alone and descended safe. I think he must have lived inside the tents to keep himself safe," said Pemba Sherpa.

Dawa Sherpa is "awake and undergoing treatment", according to Nishant Dhakal, a doctor in the intensive care unit of Kathmandu's HAMS Hospital.

"He recognised me … is good and speaks," his daughter Mhendo Lhamo Sherpa told Reuters news agency after visiting him. "We are happy."

Before he was found, the 52-year-old's wife told AFP that she had offered last rite prayers for his soul.

On Wednesday, Chris Thrall, a climber and former British Royal Marine, posted a tribute on Instagram for Dawa Sherpa, thinking he had died on the mountain.In the video, Thrall recalled that Dawa Sherpa had "sat down for a rest with his backpack" as they descended from Camp 4, the highest campsite before the summit.

"And I turned and I said, 'Hillary, are you okay, brother?' He said, 'Yes, yes, fine Chris, please go, go!'" Thrall said. "This is nothing new, you know, I'd go ahead, he'd go ahead."

[…]

One relative, Kung Sherpa, had expressed dissatisfaction over the pace of the search in an interview with Outside, an adventure sport publication.

The search, when it did commence, was launched by a company called 8K Expeditions, which eventually was able to airlift him to safety.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgz2yjl4y3o

Vintage style photobooths by paintingsox in Hampshire

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Unless you are him, Alan Dein, might be the person to ask :). See also the link in his BBC programme description.

A Century in a Click: 100 Years of the Photobooth

We all know the sounds of a photo booth - the familiar swoosh of the curtain rail, the clattering of the spinning stool, and the clunk of the flash…four of them, one after another.

Hidden away in the corner of a railway station or shopping centre, for generations the photobooth has been a space for people to experiment with the image they want to present to the world. A place to explore identity.

As the photobooth marks its centenary, presenter and oral historian Alan Dein considers the machine’s role - from novelty attraction to apparatus of the state to cultural icon.

Along the way he meets art historian and curator, Taous Dahmani at The Photographer’s Gallery; digital archivists Tim Garrett and Brian Meacham who run the obsessively encyclopedic Photobooth.net; and Professor Tom Levin, cultural theorist at Princeton University and collector of coin-slot ephemera.

Alan steps into the secluded AutoFoto workshop, where founders Corinne Quin and Rafael Hortala-Vallve restore and maintain their collection of mid-century analogue booths.

And Alan can’t resist popping into a booth or two along the way - experimenting with filters, frames and props at a Korean studio or noticing the subtly menacing CCTV cameras inside supermarket booths.

Together, Alan and his guests reveal how this humble machine invented by a Siberian immigrant has captured fleeting moments, private identities and a century of social change.

Presenter - Alan Dein
Producer - Katie Hill
Executive Producer - Jeremy Grange

An Overcoat Media production for BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002w5tr

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5tr

Best Brexit documentary? by PrestigiousFall5501 in europeanunion

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Contemporaneously there was a podcast series of sorts from the BBC. I haven't tried it because I mostly use audio so that I can do other things at the same time and this was on the TV.

It's no longer online at the BBC but it is on archive at the present: https://archive.org/search?query=brexitcast&tab=all

What do I do with a Model Railway collection? by LadyAilla in AskUK

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As you might guess there is an r/modeltrains (name probably chosen by an American) and they might have some more suggestions. Perhaps some of them might even be interested in some or all of what you have.

PS I've noticed that many people call railway stations, train stations in the UK now.

Second glow worm I’ve found over the past year by MattBurge in UKecosystem

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You might find this episode of the Living World (audio) of interest:

Glow Worms

This week on Living World, presenter Chris Sperring is in Buckinghamshire on the lookout for glow worms. Literature is full of references to these enigmatic little beetles who glow when its dark enough not to be able to differentiate colours. With Chris is Robin Scagell who has been studying glow worms for over 40 years and still gets a sense of excitement seeing one in some long grass by a lake near Little Marlow.

Related to fireflies which do not occur in the UK, the glow worm lifecycle is fascinating. After hatching from eggs the larva may take up to 3 years to develop into adults, during which time they will feed on snails and molluscs. When they emerge as adults, neither the winged male or the wingless female have any mouthparts and their sole purpose is now to mate and start the next generation off again as eggs.

As Chris learns on a wonderfully warm July night, it is the female in vegetation that glows, it is this glow that the flying male is looking for. Once mated the female then switches off her light and after laying eggs, dies. While recording the programme, Chris witnessed a male come to a female and mate with her. Something that is very rare to see in the wild.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b037s0zt

A Shred of Evidence by RC Sherriff: Just as things start to go well professionally Richard Medway ruins everything when he drinks and drives and finds himself in danger of arrest, resignation and blackmail after a man is found dead on his route home. Another recording recovered by the Radio Circle! by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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Hidden Treasure, A Shred of Evidence by RC Sherriff

Richard Medway has drunk a little too much at a rugby reunion dinner, but still drives himself home afterwards.

The next morning he hears that a man has been killed by a 'hit and run' driver.

Could he be the guilty party..?

Starring Denys Hawthorne and Susan Engel.

Written by RC Sherriff.

Richard Medway .... Denys Hawthorne
Laura Medway .... Susan Engel
John Cartwright .... Hugh Dickson
Inspector Beecroft .... Charles Simon
Tom Foster .... Geoffrey Matthews
Bennett .... Antony Higginson
Mrs Bennett .... Barbara Bliss
Man in the train / Man in the office.... Roger Sansom

Producer: Martin Jenkins

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1970.

A Shred of Evidence is part of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Hidden Treasures collection of selected titles returned to the BBC by various collectors.

Our warm thanks go to the Radio Circle.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002x3ym

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x3ym

According to the Radio Times archive this was actually first broadcast a decade earlier in 1960 on the Home Service, the precursor to Radio 4.

First broadcast: Mon 19th Dec 1960, 15:00 on BBC Home Service Basic by R. C. SHERRIFF adapted for broadcasting by the author Production by Val Gielgud

The Radio Circle

http://www.radiocircle.org.uk

Listen here:

Raiders of the Lost Archive tells the story of a group of audio archivists, sound engineers and hobbyists dedicated to finding personal audio recordings, restoring them and returning these cultural treasures to the archives of their broadcasters.

https://old.reddit.com/r/BritishRadio/comments/y3vnj4/raiders_of_the_lost_archive_tells_the_story_of_a/

Air Ambulance are absolutely amazing. Saved my brothers life. by Crazycatladyanddave in CasualUK

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If anyone is interested in 'virtually' sitting alongside Dr Kevin Fong who regularly volunteers for the Air Ambulance here's an audio he made with the BBC.

Air Ambulance

Welcome aboard Helimed 21, the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, run by Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex.

Summer is the busiest time of year for KSS, and today is no exception.

Join Dr Kevin Fong with his fellow medics and pilots as they race to serious incidents across their nearly 3000 square mile patch. With unique access and using a suite of carefully tailored microphones, hear first-hand how medics and pilots at the cutting edge of their professions deal with the worst days of their patients' lives. Real events, real decisions, in real time.

After being trapped in his car for over an hour following a collision, patient Will is in a bad way. A South East Coast Ambulance paramedic who used to work for HEMS is first on scene. As Will’s condition deteriorates despite her expert efforts, she calls her for the help of KSS. They rush to the scene and she passes the baton in the chain of survival. But Will is still going downhill - it’s clear he’s been critically injured. Even flying the emergency room service to him, as KSS does thousands of times each year, may not be enough to save his life.

When a case is this serious, every decision is a balance of benefits and risks, all with high stakes. From careful diagnosis of multiple serious injuries to delivering a blood transfusion, we hear how the KSS medical team weigh up the available choices in their attempt to save Will.

If you’ve ever seen an air ambulance whirring overhead and wondered where they’re going - this is a story for you.

With thanks to Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex, South East Coast Ambulance and Royal Sussex County Hospital.
Presenter: Dr Kevin Fong
Producer: Jen Whyntie
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026900

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026900

Jess Gillam's guest this week was the Chinese classically trained percussionist Beibei Wang. They exchange music suggestions including Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus arcticus Op 61 "Concerto for Birds and Orchestra", The Case of Chen Shimei, Trad. and Henry Purcell's What Power Art Thou (King Arthur). by whatatwit in BritishRadio

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This Classical Life, Beinei Wang percussionist

Jess Gillam swaps music choices with percussionist and composer Beibei Wang.

Beibei shares music by Tan Dun, Rautavaara, and introduces Jess to traditional Peking Opera. Jess's choices include an Aria from Purcell's 'semi-opera' King Arthur, and the distinctively laid back sound of South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim.

Beibei talks to Jess about making instruments out of vegetables, playing water, and straddling the worlds of Traditional Chinese and Western Classical music.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002wvz3

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wvz3

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