Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie
Requirements: MP3 Player, 97 MB
Overview: Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie (1947) and was subsequently adapted for the cinema under the title Whisky Galore!. It was released in the United States as Tight Little Island.
BBC Radio 4 – Afternoon Play Saturday 2nd March 1996
44100Hz 224 kb/s total (2 chnls) LAME3.96rª
VBR Duration: 91 minutes. 97.4Mb
Broadcast nationally, produced in the BBC Edinburgh studio by Hamish Wilson.
From a very poorly recorded cassette has been re-mastering and cleaned up using Adobe Audition, the result is really very good.
There seems to be no reference to it on the internet or on the BBC’s archives. It appears to be a rare find.
The story was based on a real-life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the S.S. Politician ran aground. The famous tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of 24,000 cases of whisky has grown into a legend.
Official files released recently by the Public Records Office show that it was also carrying a sum of hard cash. In all, there were nearly 290,000 ten-shilling notes, which would be worth the equivalent of several million pounds at today’s prices. Not all of this was recovered from the wreck.
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Part of Sherlockx’s collection. – G & a
