As always I receive the Radio 7 newsletter in my email every Friday and this week I find that the site is mentioned in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the show - fame at last?

To return the favour, he is what Radio 7 is doing to mark the anniversary: This weekend sees the 50th anniversary of the Navy Lark, still afloat on Radio 7, and to celebrate this they will be bringing you a Navy Lark Special, introduced by Leslie Phillips, An Hour with Jon Pertwee, a recent programme from Radio 4's Re-Union series, in which Sue McGregor talks to surviving members of the Troutbridge crew, and throughout the week you can hear an interview with Tenniel Evans, enthusiastically recorded by their very own Navy Lark fan, Broadcast Assistant Georgie Robinson

Whilst the site has stayed static for some time now, Fred has been beavering away in the background producing regular editions of Navy Days - the NLAS newsletter, and has pulled out all the stops for the anniversary edition, which is worth the price of membership on its own. The society is a small one, and relies heavily on members subscriptions to be able to continue with the sterling work. We all know about the credit crunch and how tightening belts is now the done thing, but for a very modest annual sum you can be part of something much, much bigger and keep the Navy Lark very much alive. More details can be obtained from emailing Fred.

In the meantime, the BBC is continuing to issue the series on CD, and the first four series are all now available, alongside 20 volumes of classic episodes and a best of range. You can order a selection of them using the links below, and a small percentage of your purchase comes back to us to help us maintain the website.

For those of you who are using this site to check about missing shows, I would like to point out that the episode guide is continually being upgraded so may not be accurate, however, if you feel you have a lost show, here are a few guidelines:

1. If you have a missing show as an mp3 file, then you can almost be certain I have already downloaded it. Thanks for the offers,but there is no need to contact me.
2. If you have a missing show on tape, reel, or wet string that you recorded off air, please drop me a line giving as much detail as possible - date, condition, speed (if applicable). This will enable me to judge how best to deal with it.
3. If you have a missing show on tape, reel, etc, that you have copied off of someone else, please see if the original is available. This will reduce the amount of restoration needed, and will speed up any work.
4. If you are not sure what your recording is, but you think it may be a missing show, please send me the full opening line and a full end credit cast list so that I can check to see what episode it is

Shows listed as missing are missing in broadcast quality. This does mean that recordings may still exist but are in a condition where restoration is necessary or they are too poor to do anything with. Whilst this may cause some confusion, I would rather listen to the same show several times and hit the jackpot by finding a better copy thanhave someone read that it exists and ditch their taped copy which is of much better quality. Basically, if in doubt, contact the society.

Hopefully we can locate some of the early shows as they are needed for the forthcoming collectors sets. Any shows that are sent to me will be forwarded directly to Ted Kendall for restoration and will be returned on the completion of the process.