BBC Radio 4 Podcast
October 21st, 2008
Over the weekend, Radio 4 broadcast a 30 minute programme featuring Bournemouth Surf Reef.
In the segment, presenter Matt Baker interviews surfer David Weight, who has been involved in the development of the surf reef since it’s inception. David tells Matt how he first came up with the idea for the reef in 1993 and finally got the council on board in 1998. Ten years later, the first bags have been placed in the sea.
Also interviewed is Roger Brown – Bournemouth Council’s Head of Leisure Services, marine biologist Dr. Roger Herbert, reef construction manager David Neilson (pictured) and Lisa Northover, a local Councillor who gives Matt a guided tour of the town centre.
If you missed the programme, you can listen on the BBC iPlayer at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dy5gh. It will be repeated on Radio 4 this Thursday 23 October at 1.30pm.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Actually, I’ve just realised that we are not fully aware of what has been completed.
1. concrete weights
2. a base mat
3. base bags filled – which ones?
Is it the small start of ramp bags ? Have two of those little bags been filled?
Or is it the the big bags at the top of the “ramp” have two of these been filled for full length?
So if we are to wait for the rest be be built – what is it that we are waiting for?
I remember words of reassurance from the man-in-charge SURFER David ** that the pump capacity was such that it only took a few hours to fill each bag? So which bags were filled little one for full length or big ones for full length?
Could we please be informed?