Spelade
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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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Hardy women whose lives were governed by the tides. Gathering cockles was - and is - dangerous work.
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Ghostal Story #3: In the summer of 1918 an American submarine cruising off the southern coast of Ireland witnessed the mysterious demise of a German U-Boat. In fact its ending was probably the least mysterious thing about a vessel that many said was cursed from the start.
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The St Kilda archipelago, far out in the north Atlantic way beyond the Western Isles of Scotland, was cut off entirely from the world for nine long, lonely months every year. During that time the islanders would trust letters and messages to the waves on the 'St Kilda mail boat'.
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From the Trenwiths of Scilly - a father-son human foghorn duo - to a pan-European foghorn concerto, via the Boddam Coo, we say hats off to the foghorn.
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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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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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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.
