http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/programmes\/2011\/06\/110620_antarctic_midwinter_broadcast_2011.shtml<\/a><\/p>\nIf you don\u2019t have time to listen at the moment here\u2019s what it says on the web page:<\/p>\n
Produced and presented for an audience of just 43 – the brave and hardy scientists and technical staff who keep the Antarctic bases of the British Antarctic Survey running through the long, cold darkness of the polar winter – the Antarctic specials are possibly the World Service’s most unusual broadcasts.<\/p>\n
Once a year, on 21 June, in the dark days of the southern winter, staff at the four Antarctic bases – Rothera, Halley, King Edward Point and Bird Island – cluster round their short-wave radios to hear the BBC present half an hour of music requests and special messages from their loved ones back home.<\/p>\n
There’s special messages from surprise celebrity guests, and a selection of music that reveals a deep longing for sunshine.<\/p>\n
This year the broadcast is presented by Martin Redfern, who was fortunate to spend a month in Antarctica three years ago, reporting on research and visiting field sites and the Rothera base.<\/p>\n
As a result says Martin, “We feel we are talking to friends, we can imagine the scene down there and although we were only there for a few weeks in Summer, we know how food fantasies turn to salad and fresh fruit.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tradition on Midwinter is to listen to a broadcast done by the BBC for BAS stations – see press release from BAS\/BBC below. We crowded into the comms room with champagne to listen on HF at 7:30pm local time but it wasn’t that clear so Rob meanwhile downloaded from the internet and we listened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-georgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> Rob tuning in the HF to catch the broadcast<\/p>\n