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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 to one of the world's most extraordinary sea stories and one of its greatest books who leads Betsy through the rest of her remarkable century.
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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 the hold of a ship in Plymouth harbour changes lives and destinies for generations. Explore the remarkable life of Betsy Siverson, an ordinary girl whose life becomes extraordinary after her father turns to crime.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A mysterious Dublin door leads nowhere but to the strange story of a ship given up for lost.
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In the summer of 1808 a clergyman spotted something strange in the sea as he shuttled between his Hebridean island parishes. A few weeks later something very odd washed up on an Orkney beach.
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Here comes the Coastal Stories podcast, your official muster station for the best in maritime tales.
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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.
