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Thanks Rad. After a good start I've cleared all the low hanging fruit and am now, like you, I'm finding it really hard.

One thing that we can be sure of is that the letter in ring 1 will always be one of the first three letters of each clue answer in its sector.

Of course, you're right, it's a maximum of two moves.

Thanks for posting the puzzle again, tatters.

This makes last week's look easy! Once the 'message' appears it's straightforward - but getting to that point is a nightmare.The clues are far too tortuous for cold-solving (in my opinion) and there are no short cuts. As there's very little help with cross-checking this has to be the most unfair Listener in a long, long time.

I misread the preamble and thought letters could only move up to two places, but, looking at it again, it doesn't actually say that anywhere!

Do the messages in Rings 1 and 5 necessarily start in Radial 1? It would be marginally helpful if we did know where they start.

In seven instances two letters are 'moved outward', brendan - I don't think it gives away too much to confirm that, 'outward' means they move to the two outer circles of the grid.
But the letters that move can travel any distance to do so (and even the last letter of a word can appear to move 'outward' because the first moved letter must squeeze in between this letter and the letter that actually precedes it in the answer - this is the case for two of the answers).
Remaining letters stay in their original order, and moving letters remain in their original order - so if the word 'DoCtor' is to be treated you'd enter 'otorDC'. I hope this helps.

I was too peeved when I finished it to mention that I found it a clever puzzle and (for me, at least) a completely novel idea. It must have been as hard to set as to solve.

dylan - for ring 1 the start is radial 1, for ring 5 it's radial 11 (it's more a description of what's happening than a message to do something).

...but perhaps the one in ring 1 could be 'what to do'.

Thanks Drxx,

Once I properly read the preamble, as opposed to just scanning it a few time, I understood what it was saying (although I did wonder if a letter moved to the outer ring if the letter originally there 'circled back', as it were, to ring 1, so thanks for clearing that up). Can you confirm that the 4 words in ring 4 going clockwise all stay in their original boxes.