Being in the engine room, sweating like a stuffed pig, in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, loading and discharging in Aden, and other tanker ports in that nick of the woods, on board tankers, some fitted with complete accommodation Air conditioning, some with tennents case/boxes wind/ breeze catchers (Abadan-comes too mind with its 19 some jetties), and that natural climate of that part of the world, one had to find a cool place to sleep and rest, and here BBC Overseas come into its own, with programmes that the scots crew members would love to turn up loudly such as Jimmy Shand and his band or Andy Stewart and his songs (Scotland the Brave comes to Mind,).
In the med on a quiet night coming off the 8/12 (midnight) just off Cyprus, one could tune into BBC Light Programme, and listen. Radio Luxenberg was a station too far!! In the gulf there was also 24 hours a day '' Voice of the desert'', without a time signal, or clue as too whom broadcast this popular music channel-It was a most welcome relief to the BBC World Service, and Voice of America broadcast from ''Stuttgart?'' in then what was west germany.
Around the Cape there was a south african broadcast radio programmes that were also is pleasant to listen too, when the tankers were sent round the ''Cape'', after the suez canal closed in the mid 60's.
I am in my rocking chair now dribbling and burbling some unintelligible rubbish, listening to Radio 2'a listen to the band and nigel ogden- the organist entertains, old programmes for old farts?? Sleep tight! enjoy your time off watch
In the med on a quiet night coming off the 8/12 (midnight) just off Cyprus, one could tune into BBC Light Programme, and listen. Radio Luxenberg was a station too far!! In the gulf there was also 24 hours a day '' Voice of the desert'', without a time signal, or clue as too whom broadcast this popular music channel-It was a most welcome relief to the BBC World Service, and Voice of America broadcast from ''Stuttgart?'' in then what was west germany.
Around the Cape there was a south african broadcast radio programmes that were also is pleasant to listen too, when the tankers were sent round the ''Cape'', after the suez canal closed in the mid 60's.
I am in my rocking chair now dribbling and burbling some unintelligible rubbish, listening to Radio 2'a listen to the band and nigel ogden- the organist entertains, old programmes for old farts?? Sleep tight! enjoy your time off watch
