Coastal Stories

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 Stories is written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.

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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 place of refuge. Until PC Hunt arrived with his lamp. 

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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. 

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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 hard at his pocket watch and the people of Dover are about to miss everything.

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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. 

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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 17-year-old Annie MacIntyre was walking along the shore of the loch when she noticed something unusual in the water...

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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 ranging from 'biliousness' to war breaking out when he was halfway across. 

Hear Jabez's story and his, ah, unorthodox opinions on what kind of woman is best equipped to swim the Channel.

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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 is an extract from Charlie's book 'The Channel', the paperback edition of which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson on June 23rd.

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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 quite the bombshell. 

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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 they had the church to prove it.

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