Boat Radio

Chad & LeeAnn Lawie are starting their retirement while they're young enough to enjoy it. They've bought a Lagoon 38 catamaran, which they sail on the Great Lakes, and their plan is to one day take their sons out of school and, as Chad puts it, 'sail off into the sunset'.

Sarah Morris – daughter of campaigning journalist, Sue Lloyd Roberts – talks to Shirley about writing the final chapter in her mother’s book, The War on Women, following her death from cancer last year. Sarah first came to the Sóller valley aged sixteen and has fond memories of summers spent tending bar down at the port and working at her mother’s hotel, Ca’n Reus, in the village of Fornalutx. She also shares memories of growing up with such a rebellious and principled character as Sue Lloyd Roberts. This is a wonderful interview. It was recorded on the terrace at Ca’n Reus on a gloriously sunny September morning.

Considerations when buying galley gear. Size, shape, frequency of use and what type of stainless steel do I need? Just four of the fourteen factors you should take into consideration when buying equipment and utensils for your new boat's galley. Don't worry, Carolyn Shearlock takes you through it, step-by-step, in this brilliant series.

Intrigue, espionage, torture, love, sex, drugs, a daring escape and a desperate crusade against the Nazis. This story is a blockbuster movie waiting to happen. Baron Rudolph von Ripper was an Austrian aristocrat who turned his back on tradition to become an artist and later a US Army sharpshooter. He fought with the French Foreign Legion, survived torture at the hands of the Gestapo, escaped from the first concentration camp, painted marine life in The Bahamas, worked for the CIA in Vienna, designed jewellery with his friend Salvador Dali and was eventually found dead at his home in Mallorca, in mysterious circumstances, having learned that Hitler’s favourite commando, Otto Skorzeny – a man he’d captured during the war – had been freed from prison and had moved into a house just a mile away.

Matt reports from the bridge of a half-submerged ship on Greenland's west coast. The first mate and documentary cameraman have fled,leaving Matt and Nicole to contemplate crossing the Labrador Sea short-handed. Funds are, as ever, running low and Matt's spirits are lifted by the surprise donation of an expensive camera. This is compelling stuff from the Ocean Research Project leader. It's clear he's disappointed at the disappearance of his crew but there's a sense that something good has been achieved through hard work and determination.

Mark Turner, the new Volvo Ocean Race CEO, talks to Sail Racing Magazine editor Justin Chisholm about the future of the race, the loss of Abu Dhabi and why he needs to start training his successor right away.

A packed show with Steve Wenzel from Marine Max, JoAnne Clark from Hydrohoist, Robert, David and Amanda from Webasto and Captain Joe DiBella from the Cricket II project. Plus, Mike from the Lake of the Ozarks Marine Dealers Association and Paul Jacobs, President of the Annapolis Boat Show. How will Captain Bob fit it all into an hour?

William Graves, son of Robert Graves - poet, novelist, historian and a resident of Deia for more than half his life. William was brought to Mallorca aged six, shortly after the end of World War Two, and has lived here ever since. He spoke to Shirley Roberts on the terrace of La Casa de Robert Graves - his childhood home - which is now open to the public. This is a candid interview; a frank account of life with his tortured genius father.

In today's episode host Brandon Huebner looks at the evidence of heavy-transport shipping throughout Egypt's history. Their many monumental building projects required the transportation of staggering amounts of material, and there is evidence from Pliny the Elder and Herodotus that much of this transport was accomplished by shipping up and down the Nile. Brandon examines the various theories for how objects weighing hundreds of tons were loaded and shipped on the Nile, and looks at depictions of such ships from the pyramid of Unas and the temple of Hatshepsut.