Back-Room Boy

Arthur Pilbeam's fiancée Betty breaks their engagement because he has to speed back to the BBC every hour, on the hour, due to his internationally vital job of creating the BBC pips. He is assigned the solitary job of sending weather reports from a remote Scottish lighthouse. The locals warn him he will go mad from the isolation and the curse of a mermaid within a month, as his predecessors have. He encounters Jane, a young girl and Bobbie, a model and the sole survivor of a torpedoed ship.