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As the shipping forecast reaches its broadcast centenary on January 1st 2024, here's a look back to its beginnings and a tribute to the place it has found in our cultural affections. Find tour dates and ticket details for Charlie's 'Attention
The Christmas Day dip is a growing tradition around our coasts. This episode celebrates those hardy swimmers and tells the remarkable story of the greatest Christmas Day swimmer of them all - Herbert Wray of Grimsby. https://www.facebook.com/
Coastal Stories is back for a fifth series! At last! I know! Exciting. We kick off with the secrets and mysteries of Spurn Point, a spindly finger of land off the coast of East Yorkshire. https://www.facebook.com/CoastalStoriesPodhttps://twi
A quick update from Charlie on the immiment arrival of the fifth series of Coastal Stories and news of his new one-man show about the shipping forecast. More info and ticket details here:https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/charlie-connelly
In April 1921 a tiny fishing village on the east coast of Scotland found its timeless rhythms and routines disrupted by the arrival of film stars and a film crew. A bumper episode to finish series four as we learn what happened when the movies
A terrific storm blew suddenly out of the north-east at the end of November 1774, wrecking many ships and claiming many lives up and down the east coast. The crew and passengers of the Ann, sailing from London to Dunbar, were lucky - they made
As well as a curious pliable hinterland between land and sea, the beach has always been a place where the boundaries of conventional morality blur. Not least with the innovation and introduction to piers and promenades at the end of the 19th ce
For 52 years Horatio Mole rowed people back and forth the short distance between Mersea Island and the Essex mainland. Coastal Stories is researched, written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.https://twitter.com/PodcastCoastalhtt
Mary Russell, the Duchess of Bedford, was some woman. Pioneering ornithologist, nurse, radiographer, jujitsu expert and, well, duchess, when she discovered the magic of flight at the age of 60 it changed everything. Having flown to Cape Town, I
Sandend, a tiny fishing village on the coast of the Moray Firth, has seen its fair share of the joys, hardships, successes and tragedies that go with being a place for sea people. When a storm put the crew of a German cargo ship in mortal dange
A delve into the ancestry for Charlie this week as he reads an account of a Spanish attack on Cornwall in 1595 in the words of his 11x great-grandfather Richard Carew, author of one of the first travel books written in English. Coastal Storie
Beach huts today go for ridiculous amounts of money but they've always been desirable things, ever since their popularity skyrocketed after the First World War. For a penniless couple in 1935, however, an unlocked beach hut was just a welcome p
One foggy afternoon in April 1940 the crew of an armed trawler escorting a convoy off Fraserburgh in the North Sea spotted something remarkable - two men in a rowing boat who'd come a very long way indeed. Vanishing Postcards from Miami, Okla
Britain is in political turmoil, there's a lame duck prime minister and the solution is only to be found by looking to Europe. It's 1834, the king has sacked the government, Robert Peel's on holiday, the captain of a Channel packet is looking h
On a quiet Thursday night in February 1866, Harriet Harton was thinking of closing the Jolly Fisherman in Brighton early. Then the door opened and in walked a horribly familiar face - holding a revolver. Vanishing Postcards:https://www.vanis
In January 1917 the submarine K13 was in Gare Loch undergoing its very last trials before going into service. One brief, 15 minute dive just to check one last thing and K13 would be ready to go. Shortly after the sub slipped beneath the surface
Nobody swam farther than the man mountain Jabez Wolffe when attempting to conquer the English Channel. More than 600 miles, in fact. But despite 22 attempts over 15 years he never once made it to the other side, defeated by circumstances rangin
By 1926 only five people had ever succeeded in swimming the English Channel. Then a 19 year old ukulele-toting gal from New York showed up in France with a swimsuit, a gramophone and a whole bunch of world swimming records.This week's episode
In 1747 a new recruit joined the British naval sloop Swallow at Portsmouth. James Gray distinguished himself on the voyage to India and in fighting the French when he got there. When the fleet returned to Portsmouth, however, James Gray dropped
On October 3rd 1957 three elderly men were driven slowly through the village of Quilty, County Clare, sitting in a rowing boat on the back of a lorry. Exactly 50 years earlier they had braved a fearsome storm to effect a remarkable rescue. And
When two middle aged men who ran a care home for aged clerics and a string of church organ shops went missing in 1975 it opened up a wild tale of fraud that drew in bishops, blackmail, a TV quiz show accompanist, racing cars, a psychic from Orp
Rhyl, 1880. A young man stands on the shore about to resume a voyage he hopes will change his life and the world of seafaring forever. The sea might have other ideas. https://www.facebook.com/CoastalStoriesPodhttps://twitter.com/PodcastCoast
110 years ago today, on 22nd April 1912, a week after the Titanic sank, Denys Corbett Wilson became the first person to fly between Britain and Ireland.https://ko-fi.com/coastalstorieshttps://www.facebook.com/CoastalStoriesPodhttps://twitte
He'd once roamed the Pacific but for a finback whale called Eric his final journey would be in a glass case, towed by a lorry from Southend to Morecambe. https://twitter.com/PodcastCoastalhttps://ko-fi.com/coastalstories
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