In March 1928 the King of the Afghans received the red carpet treatment when he arrived in Britain as part of a vast European tour. Progressive and liberal, King Amanullah and Queen Souriya arrived in Portsmouth apparently at the dawn of a new global era for Afghanistan. 

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For 500 years Winchelsea had been protected by a man with a telescope. For the half century before the Second World War that man was Chummy Barden, lookout, shove-halfpenny maestro and beer drinker. 

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When they embarked for Dublin from Greenock on the night of 8th October 1921 the Southern Syncopated Orchestra was one of the best known musical acts in Europe, bringing Black American music to a Britain and Ireland still processing the trauma of the First World War and leaving a legacy that influences Black British music to this day. 

That night on the sea, however, would be the beginning of the end. 

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This week's story takes us from Aldeburgh to Plymouth on the trail of a man and a large sum of money via a chance sighting through a telescope.

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You won't find many places more remote than Cape Wrath, stalwart of the inshore waters shipping forecast. In 1814 Sir Walter Scott joined a six-week lighthouse inspection cruise around the Scottish coast and islands, including a visit to Cape Wrath. Here's what Scotland's greatest writer made of the place. 

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Hardy women whose lives were governed by the tides. Gathering cockles was - and is - dangerous work. 

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In part two of the special 50th episode coastal story we follow Betsy into her marriage to James Curry, whaling captain, a man with a link to one of the world's most extraordinary sea stories and one of its greatest books who leads Betsy through the rest of her remarkable century. 

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Part one of a two-part story to mark the 50th episode of Coastal Stories. 

In 1811 one man's fateful decision to steal a bale of cotton from the hold of a ship in Plymouth harbour changes lives and destinies for generations. Explore the remarkable life of Betsy Siverson, an ordinary girl whose life becomes extraordinary after her father turns to crime. 

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On a stormy afternoon in September 1889 passengers on a steamer from Liverpool to the Isle of Man caught sight of something unusual in the distance. It turned out to be a leaky lifeboat barely afloat that had been at the mercy of the Irish Sea for almost three days. It contained quite a story.

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In the first of two stories about sole survivors of shipwrecks, it's November 1930 and a man stumbles soaking wet into a post office on the coast at Weston-Super-Mare. When he recovers he has quite a story of remarkable survival. 

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