Afgespeeld
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
