The Doomed Oasis (1984) by Hammond Innes, starring Bernard Horsfall

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Once a familiar name in any British bookshop, Hammond Innes was a popular writer of adventure-thrillers. The Doomed Oasis is, originally broadcast in 1984, is a BBC radio adaptation of one of these novels, and as you will guess from the title involves... well... shenanigans in the desert, I suppose...
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@ednigma6526 5 ай бұрын

I really do like this sort of thing.. it's not complicated, not flashy, just good storytelling.

@spikemcnock8310 6 ай бұрын

This is a fantastic play with very good actors, adventure, thrilling and exciting. Enjoyed it very much thanks.

@tomkeating5178 6 ай бұрын

Bbc should return to this kind of thing

@oisin347 6 ай бұрын

This was broadcast only last year on Radio 4 extra but it would be great if it, and similar, were available on demand all year round!

@PibrochPonder 9 күн бұрын

Originally broadcast in 1984

@davelawday6609 2 ай бұрын

What a brilliant rollicking drama..I was out there in the desert.. thank you ❤

@ThomasHyland-eb4ol 2 ай бұрын

Excellent. Thank you for uploading.

@aoifeocallaghan8351 5 ай бұрын

All I can add is thank you so much

@jeremyripton 6 ай бұрын

A great way to spend a lazy day....

@duncanburbridge3742 4 ай бұрын

thank you magpie

@PerryWidhalm 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@suzannahjames5264 Ай бұрын

Really appreciate this story. Top class! Thank you. 😊

@Winston.Smith101 26 күн бұрын

Lol, who remembes mark 'hatcher' getting lost in the desert 😂

@ecobluefarms223 Ай бұрын

Amazing every minute First time listener to this type of story content

@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn Ай бұрын

I have a lot of 'old fashioned adventure story' type productions on the channel - many of them are likely to entertain you, but there's a series called The Sand Leopard that I recently uploaded. It's an older production, but it's perhaps comparable to The Doomed Oasis in its particular style...

@granthurlburt4062 Ай бұрын

A few jokes: Colonel "Chuck Berry"? The "Jebel Mountains"? Jebel is Arabic for Hill or Mountain.

@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn Ай бұрын

Possibly Hammond Innes joking as you say, though the nickname 'Chuck Berry' would be typical of some British humour appropriating popular culture (there's a 'Flash' Gordon in Len Deighton's novel 'Bomber'). The Jebel Mountains, however, sounds like the kind of redundancy that is pretty routine in English. The most common contemporary example is 'PIN number', but people especially do it when they encounter other languages and you can just imagine the cliche of Europeans pointing at some mountains and saying 'what's that mountain called?' and being told 'Jabal', and then going away thinking 'ah, the Jabal mountains...'. Terry Pratchett joked about this in one of his books with a mountain called 'I Don't Know, Just a Mountain', so perhaps Hammond Innes was doing something similar...

@granthurlburt4062 Ай бұрын

@@MysticalMagpie-wo5fn Thank you for posting. I lived in Qatar for 4 years, teaching mostly Arabic speaking nursing students, travelling to Omansome of the Emirates. & learning some Arabic. It seems pretty clear to me that Innes knew his stuff when it came to the basic geography and peoples of the arabian peninsula and had a reasonable basic "restaurant" understanding of Arabic..Some names were real (Sharjah, where one of my friends taught). This isnt a place where English names hold and "Jebel Mtns" don't exist so it certainly wasnt a name placed by any Europeans. "Allah Akbar" (God is great) is the source of Jebel Akbar.

@PibrochPonder 9 күн бұрын

@@granthurlburt4062 it actually means Greater not great. In Arabic, “Akbar” (أكبر) is the comparative form of the adjective “kabir” (كبير), which means “great” or “big.” Therefore, “Akbar” translates to “greater” or “greatest.” The term is most commonly known from the phrase “Allahu Akbar” (الله أكبر), which means “God is the greatest.” In this context, it is used to express reverence and the supreme greatness of God.