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Rewind at Sluice Gate Studio
≈ 6 min
Between 20:30 on Wednesday 12 August and 07:00 on Thursday 13 August 2026, a quantity of master tape reels vanished from the Sluice Gate Studio archive room at Hollowtide Lock Yard. The archive stores original recording sessions donated by regional bands and musicians over the past decade. No alarm was triggered. Your task is to profile the offender's behaviour — not to name them — using the scene, victim profile, witness statements, and evidence.
The scene
Hollowtide Lock Yard, a working river lock keeper's yard on the Colvert Navigation repurposed as a community recording facility and analogue tape archive
In the file
- Dafydd Rees, lock keeper and facility caretaker
- Priya Sangha, archive volunteer and catalogue manager
- Tomasz Burek, sound engineer who uses the studio
- Nola Farrant, narrowboat resident moored sixty metres north of the lock
- Owen Cathcart, chair of the community facility committee
Play today’s Profile.
This case first aired on August 13, 2026. A fresh profile runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.