Coastal Stories

By Charlie Connelly

Great stories from around the coasts of Britain and Ireland brought to you by Charlie Connelly, author of the bestselling 'Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast'.

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The podcast currently has 92 episodes available.

Coastal Stories episodes:

August 14, 2020 S2: Series Two Trailer
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3min
May 08, 2020 S1 Ep20: The Wreck of the Northfleet
For the last episode in the current series, the story of an English Channel tragedy and a pilgrimage to visit one of its victims.
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13min
May 01, 2020 S1 Ep19: The Magnificent Voyage of Eric Smith
When Eric Smith set out to save mankind it was via an epic voyage in a small boat. With three young women. None of whom were his wife.
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13min
April 25, 2020 S1 Ep18: Zimmy the Fish
A childhood encounter with a Chicago tramcar made Charles 'Zimmy' Zibelman one of the most extraordinary people ever to attempt an English Channel swim.
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9min
April 18, 2020 S1 Ep17: Ralph Stott's Flying Machine
In 1876 a man arrived in Dover announcing a Channel crossing that would change the world. Some people scoffed. Then Bismarck got involved.
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16min
April 14, 2020 S1 Ep16: Three Coastal Vignettes (Bonus Edition)
An extra dose of Coastal Stories; three coastal snippets, each with its own happy ending: a blind poet, a trans-hemispherical farce and a drunk with musical ambitions.
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9min
April 11, 2020 S1 Ep15: The Last Fisherman
By the mid-1930s Oliver Storm was the last remnant of a seafaring way of life at Robin Hood's Bay.
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12min
April 04, 2020 S1 Ep14: Two Pork Pies and a Bath Bun: Alice Smith Stows Away
When penniless Alice Smith met Eileen Sullivan in a Liverpool boarding house it opened up a world across the sea. But how to get there?
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13min
March 28, 2020 S1 Ep13: The Kindness of Kate Poad
The paths of two lonely people from different sides of the Atlantic cross briefly to produce a simple act of kindness that will never be forgotten.
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14min
March 21, 2020 S1 Ep12: Queens of the Silver Darlings
From Victorian times up to the 1950s, Great Yarmouth would be swamped every autumn by thousands of the remarkable Scottish 'herring lassies', tough, hardworking women far from home.
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14min

FAQs about Coastal Stories:

How many episodes does Coastal Stories have?

The podcast currently has 92 episodes available.

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