Meanwhile, down at the Mountains of Madness...

Link to a story about this year's winter solstice BBC broadcast to the British Antarctic Survey team, at the SWLing post.

Well, I tried to listen in too, via the Ascension Island transmitter on 7.350 MHz.  Pretty much though it was a hopeless cause here, with the beam pointed almost exactly away from my location.  Glad to get a copy of things via the interwebs anyway.