 Lost Property | |
|  | | Shropshire - geologically unique |
| | Imagine that, due to a freak (but benign) earthquake, Shropshire disappears. That is the basic premise of the first programme in our Sense of Place series, which aims to identify just what it is that makes the county distinct. |
| | WEBLINKS | | Shropshire Tourism
A comprehensive website detailing where to go and what to see in Shropshire.
Virtual Shropshire
A site full of up to date information about what's on in Shropshire with plenty of colourful images.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. | | | SEE ALSO | | Other programmes in the series were:
That Wrekin Feeling
Everybody loves The Wrekin. It is the spiritual heart of Shropshire. Youre not a true Shropshire man unless youve climbed through The Needles Eye.
How to Spake Salop
There isn’t a Shropshire accent or, indeed, a Shropshire dialect. There are several. That’s the conclusion Georgina F. Jackson came to when she compiled her exhaustive Shropshire Word Book in 1879.
A Curlew over the Mall
The very best way to represent the true essence of Shropshire on the radio is to record and broadcast those sounds that make the county what it is - the unique and typical sounds of Shropshire.
Penguin Jumpers and Polo Necks
This programme contrasts Salopians' renowned generosity and enthusiasm for off-the-wall projects with their apparent reluctance to face up to the harsh realities of modern society. |
| | Lost Property
12.05pm Sunday 28th April 2002
6.30pm Wednesday 1st May 2002
Shropshire's former Head of Emergency Planning, Ian Sawers, is eminently placed to lead the investigation and sets up his command centre in the King's Hall in Stoke. In his bid to get enough information to draw up an "identikit" of Shropshire he directs journalist, Fay Wrixon, to find Salopians who weren't in the county when disaster struck.
Geologist, Peter Toghill, is the obvious first port of call. Considering his interest, Peter is a little miffed to have missed the most dramatic earthquake to hit the area in 500 million years and laments the loss of the area that is geologically-speaking unique.
The vicar of Cressage, Ashley Buck; industrial historian, Keith Pybus; journalist, Shirley Tart; and "urban refugees" Jim Gaffeney and Jeremy Bryce-Smith, also offer a fascinating insight into why it is imperative to relocate a "magical county of compelling beauty... but a cunning county capable of disguise".
In trying to get a fix on what he should be looking for Ian Sawers than considers the prospect that Shropshire may have got confused with Staffordshire, Cheshire or Herefordshire. What is the possibility (considering the technology of Telford) that Shropshire may have slipped down the information highway?
Lost Property offers you the chance to consider just what it is that puts Shropshire head and shoulders above the crowd and invites you to submit your own ideas. The most inventive clue to how Shropshire can be "detected" will lead to the final programme of the series.
Who knows? It could be you who finally solves the mystery and helps to make "Your Place or Mine." | | | |
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