Episodes

  • S5 Ep3: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast

    S5 Ep3: 100 Years of the Shipping Forecast
    Dec 30 2023
    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 place it has found in our cultural affections.

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    Coastal Stories is researched, written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.
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    14 mins
  • S5 Ep2: The Christmas Day Swimmers

    S5 Ep2: The Christmas Day Swimmers
    Dec 23 2023
    The Christmas Day dip is a growing tradition around our coasts. This episode celebrates those hardy swimmers and tells the remarkable story of the greatest Christmas Day swimmer of them all - Herbert Wray of Grimsby.

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    Coastal Stories is researched, written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.
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    12 mins
  • S5 Ep1: Mysterious Spurn

    S5 Ep1: Mysterious Spurn
    Dec 13 2023
    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 finger of land off the coast of East Yorkshire. 

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    Coastal Stories is researched, written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.
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    18 mins
  • S5: Series 5 announcement!

    S5: Series 5 announcement!
    Apr 21 2023
    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 shipping forecast. More info and ticket details here:

    https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/charlie-connelly-the-shipping-forecast
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    5 mins
  • S4 Ep20: When the Movies Came to Auchmithie

    S4 Ep20: When the Movies Came to Auchmithie
    Sep 25 2022
    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 stars and a film crew. A bumper episode to finish series four as we learn what happened when the movies came to Auchmithie. 

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    23 mins
  • S4 Ep19: The Kessingland Tragedy

    S4 Ep19: The Kessingland Tragedy
    Sep 15 2022
    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 the east coast. The crew and passengers of the Ann, sailing from London to Dunbar, were lucky - they made it ashore and the vessel remained in one piece. The storm, however, wasn't quite finished them. 

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    13 mins
  • S4 Ep18: Mutoscopes on the Lanes of Sodom

    S4 Ep18: Mutoscopes on the Lanes of Sodom
    Sep 8 2022
    As well as a curious pliable hinterland between land and sea, the beach has always been a place where the boundaries of conventional morality blur. Not least with the innovation and introduction to piers and promenades at the end of the 19th century of the Mutoscope. Lower yourself to the level of What The Butler Saw in this week's Coastal Stories. 

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    Coastal Stories is researched, written, produced and presented by Charlie Connelly
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    14 mins
  • S4 Ep17: Horatio the Ferryman

    S4 Ep17: Horatio the Ferryman
    Aug 26 2022
    For 52 years Horatio Mole rowed people back and forth the short distance between Mersea Island and the Essex mainland. 

    Coastal Stories is researched, written, presented and produced by Charlie Connelly.

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    10 mins