missed his big moment on the radio.

Unlucky Mr. Wingate didn't hear either of two broadcasts of his interview concerning Nonsuch Island, aired this week on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service.

Firstly, his radio was not working on Thursday night because of a one and a half hour power blackout in Devonshire where he lives.

Then, when the interview was repeated yesterday, the BBC World Service programmes locally had to make way, as is usual, for the live recording of the Senate.

Mr. Wingate was interviewed by the BBC's science editor Mrs. Tracy Logan a month ago.

Mrs. Logan was visiting the Island and took note of local conservation issues.

She spent some time at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research and then spent an afternoon on Nonsuch Island with Mr. Wingate.

"She wanted to do something on the Nonsuch Island living museum project, because it is one of the longer running ones, having started 30 years ago,'' said Mr. Wingate.

"I think she thought it would be interesting to look at the whole subject of ecological restoration which is now coming to the fore because so many areas have been environmentally devastated worldwide.

"People are now working in the area of trying to restore these habitats, and they are receiving a lot more attention.

"Nonsuch is interesting because it can attempt to reconstruct an environment that has been utterly destroyed. A lot of ecological projects concern areas that have been partly damaged. This was an attempt to start from scratch.'' The interview lasted from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m. and Mr. Wingate and Mrs. Logan visited the Island in the hopes of seeing cahows, although it was late in the year for such sightings.

Mr. Wingate was hoping to catch the BBC show to hear how the interview with Mrs. Logan had been edited.

He said: "I will be calling some of my friends to find out what it was like but the BBC have also said they will send a tape.''