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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...
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...
The Christmas Day dip is a growing tradition around our coasts. This episode celebrates those hardy swimmers and tells the remarkable story...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As well as a curious pliable hinterland between land and sea, the beach has always been a place where the boundaries of conventional moralit...
For 52 years Horatio Mole rowed people back and forth the short distance between Mersea Island and the Essex mainland. Coastal Stories is re...
Mary Russell, the Duchess of Bedford, was some woman. Pioneering ornithologist, nurse, radiographer, jujitsu expert and, well, duchess, when...
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...
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...
Beach huts today go for ridiculous amounts of money but they've always been desirable things, ever since their popularity skyrocketed after...
One foggy afternoon in April 1940 the crew of an armed trawler escorting a convoy off Fraserburgh in the North Sea spotted something remarka...
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...
On a quiet Thursday night in February 1866, Harriet Harton was thinking of closing the Jolly Fisherman in Brighton early. Then the door open...
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...
Nobody swam farther than the man mountain Jabez Wolffe when attempting to conquer the English Channel. More than 600 miles, in fact. But des...
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...
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...
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...
When two middle aged men who ran a care home for aged clerics and a string of church organ shops went missing in 1975 it opened up a wild ta...
Rhyl, 1880. A young man stands on the shore about to resume a voyage he hopes will change his life and the world of seafaring forever. The s...
110 years ago today, on 22nd April 1912, a week after the Titanic sank, Denys Corbett Wilson became the first person to fly between Britain...
He'd once roamed the Pacific but for a finback whale called Eric his final journey would be in a glass case, towed by a lorry from Southend...
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A special edition in memory of Toby Carr, whom I met through his project to kayak the shipping forecast areas and who died on 10th January....
200 years ago this week, on 23rd December 1821, the occupants of the lighthouse at the end of the eerie shingle spit of Dungeness experience...
Charlie stands on a blustery beach and talks for a bit. Vanishing Postcards: https://www.vanishingpostcards.com/ Sea Fever: A British Mariti...
In the spring of 1777 Britain held its breath as the mysterious, terrifying 'John the Painter' embarked on a campaign to burn England's nava...
Most of these stories have some kind of happy ending. An epiphany, even. But that's nothing like the whole story of the sea. This week we re...
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. Progress...
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...
When they embarked for Dublin from Greenock on the night of 8th October 1921 the Southern Syncopated Orchestra was one of the best known mus...
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 telesco...
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...
Hardy women whose lives were governed by the tides. Gathering cockles was - and is - dangerous work. Donate to help keep Coastal Stories goi...
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 t...
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...
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 d...
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...
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 a...
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 fo...
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-Hu...
On May 13th 2021 Trinity House in a short 'notice to mariners' announced the decommissioning of the Channel Light Vessel, for forty years a...
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 acro...
Thomas Sinclair Leinster of North Shields might have been a master mariner but he definitely wasn't a master criminal. The story of his disa...
When a quiet, shy teenager from Abergavenny meets a charismatic Portuguese sailor in a Cardiff café in 1923, it leads to love, drama, global...
Coastal Stories is coming back for series three. I know! It's a game changer for the world of podcasting. Twitter: @PodcastCoastal Facebook:...
In the second and final part of Atlantic Stories we find Clarence about to reveal himself, Betty starting a spell in chokey and Vincenzo sai...
In the first part of a bonus double header from Coastal Stories, Charlie Connelly brings you the tale of three very different transatlantic...