For many decades during the golden age of sail coastal towns and communities lived in genuine fear of the press gangs who were sent out to abduct unwary men into the navy. 

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When Lena Pearson bought herself an island to live on she needed a handyman to help her around the place, not to mention row her back and forth to the mainland through dangerous waters. Sydney Hicks was just the guy. But when his sister suffered an accident, something changed. 

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In July 1914 as the world teetered on the brink of war a man somewhere in London was not happy. Was he vexed by the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Angry at diplomatic shilly-shallying? No. He was fuming at the cost of his recent holiday at the English seaside. 

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On May 13th 2021 Trinity House in a short 'notice to mariners' announced the decommissioning of the Channel Light Vessel, for forty years a director of Channel traffic and stalwart of the shipping forecast. 

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After he'd spent 25 years in a Sussex lunatic asylum, the family of Prince Ahmed Saif ed-Din of Egypt was determined to get him out and across the Channel. It was just a question of how. 

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Thomas Sinclair Leinster of North Shields might have been a master mariner but he definitely wasn't a master criminal. The story of his disastrous 1894 attempt at insurance fraud on the high seas is a tragic tale of farce, incompetence, high comedy and a fake beard.

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When a quiet, shy teenager from Abergavenny meets a charismatic Portuguese sailor in a Cardiff café in 1923, it leads to love, drama, global adventure - and a bullet in the leg. 

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Coastal Stories is coming back for series three. I know! It's a game changer for the world of podcasting. 

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In the second and final part of Atlantic Stories we find Clarence about to reveal himself, Betty starting a spell in chokey and Vincenzo sailing serenely on towards New York. A two-part special brought to you by Coastal Stories, written, produced and presented by Charlie Connelly.

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In the first part of a bonus double header from Coastal Stories, Charlie Connelly brings you the tale of three very different transatlantic stowaways crossing an ocean for very different reasons. Meet Clarence, Betty and Vincenzo as they set out illictly across the sea in 1928. Different journeys, different motivations, extraordinary stories. 

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