S5 Ep3: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast
As the shipping forecast reaches its broadcast centenary on January 1st 2024, here's a look back to its beginnings and a tribute to the plac...
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Coastal Stories
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'. Tak...
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20 of 92 episodesS5 Ep2: The Christmas Day Swimmers
The Christmas Day dip is a growing tradition around our coasts. This episode celebrates those hardy swimmers and tells the remarkable story...
S5 Ep1: Mysterious Spurn
Coastal Stories is back for a fifth series! At last! I know! Exciting. We kick off with the secrets and mysteries of Spurn Point, a spindly...
S5: Series 5 announcement!
A quick update from Charlie on the immiment arrival of the fifth series of Coastal Stories and news of his new one-man show about the shippi...
S4 Ep20: When the Movies Came to Auchmithie
In April 1921 a tiny fishing village on the east coast of Scotland found its timeless rhythms and routines disrupted by the arrival of film...
S4 Ep19: The Kessingland Tragedy
A terrific storm blew suddenly out of the north-east at the end of November 1774, wrecking many ships and claiming many lives up and down th...
S4 Ep18: Mutoscopes on the Lanes of Sodom
As well as a curious pliable hinterland between land and sea, the beach has always been a place where the boundaries of conventional moralit...
S4 Ep17: Horatio the Ferryman
For 52 years Horatio Mole rowed people back and forth the short distance between Mersea Island and the Essex mainland. Coastal Stories is re...
S4 Ep16: The Last Flight of The Flying Duchess
Mary Russell, the Duchess of Bedford, was some woman. Pioneering ornithologist, nurse, radiographer, jujitsu expert and, well, duchess, when...
S4 Ep15: Sandend Saves The Maria
Sandend, a tiny fishing village on the coast of the Moray Firth, has seen its fair share of the joys, hardships, successes and tragedies tha...
S4 Ep14: The Firing of Penzance, 1595
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...
S4 Ep13: Love in a Bexhill Beach Hut
Beach huts today go for ridiculous amounts of money but they've always been desirable things, ever since their popularity skyrocketed after...
S4 Ep12: The Astounding Voyage of Per and Johannes
One foggy afternoon in April 1940 the crew of an armed trawler escorting a convoy off Fraserburgh in the North Sea spotted something remarka...
S4 Ep11: The Brief Voyage of Sir Robert Peel Aboard the Good Ship Ferret
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, th...
S4 Ep10: Murder at the Jolly Fisherman
On a quiet Thursday night in February 1866, Harriet Harton was thinking of closing the Jolly Fisherman in Brighton early. Then the door open...
S4 Ep9: The Sinking of K13
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...
S4 Ep8: Jabez Fights the Channel
Nobody swam farther than the man mountain Jabez Wolffe when attempting to conquer the English Channel. More than 600 miles, in fact. But des...
S4 Ep7: Trudie Conquers the Channel
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 i...
S4 Ep6: Hannah Snell Goes To War
In 1747 a new recruit joined the British naval sloop Swallow at Portsmouth. James Gray distinguished himself on the voyage to India and in f...
S4 Ep5: On They Came, Nothing Daunted
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 o...