Broadcast history

BBC World Service

Message in a Bottle

12 February 2010
Produced by Nina Perry

In the summer of 2008 a man in Orkney received a response to a long forgotten message he had sent in a bottle some 23 years previously. In this composed feature, perhaps the most non-instant messaging device is explored, revealing the stories of those who send and receive these messages, often geographically oceans and generations apart.

Press

"charismatic, gently paced ... a textbook radio feature: slight, subtle, shot through with atmosphere, texture and compelling voices."
Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian 18 February 2010

  • Melissa and Netta Wylie in Orkney