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S1E13 Episode 13: Goodwin Sands Radiogram
Episode 13: Goodwin Sands Radiogram This is an episode of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram, a podcast documentary series separate from the oral history project that this series has been so far. The…
S1E12 Episode 12: Robert Peacock
Robert Peacock is a recreational diver of some 50 years' experience, 40 of which have been spent studying the Goodwin Sands and its many wrecks of various descriptions. His explorations over and…
S1E11 Episode 11: John Nichols (part 2)
Episode 11: John Nichols (part 2) John Nichols is the chairman of Thanet Fisherman's Association, and Vice-Chairman of Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. He has spent his…
S1E10 Episode 10: John Nichols (part 1)
John Nichols is the chairman of Thanet Fisherman's Association, and Vice-Chairman of Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. He has spent his life as a commercial fisherman…
S1E9 Episode 9: David Skardon
David Skardon is a fisherman and boatman who grew up in Brewer Street in Deal in the 1940s and 50s, son of a fishmonger. As a child he would help the local boat owners wind their boats up to the…
S1E8 Episode 8: David Brocklehurst MBE
David Brocklehurst MBE is the chairman, historian and a volunteer at the Kent Battle of Britain Museum in Hawkinge near Folkestone. He began working at the museum aged just ten years and, after a…
S1E7 Episode 7: Ian Goodban
Ian Goodban began his career with the Royal Navy and then worked as a hydrographic surveyor before becoming a teacher, publican, and member of the UK Coastguard. He spends many hours scouring the…
S1E6 Episode 6: David Garrod
David Garrod had a 29-year career at the Post Office, four years of which were spent as a community relations officer. This role involved working with local charities around the country offering help…
S1E5 Episode 5: Dan Sinclair
Dan Sinclair is a handyman in Deal in Kent and is also a volunteer and helmsman for Walmer RNLI lifeboat station having joined nearly 20 years ago at the age of 18. Walmer RNLI station operates two…
S1E4 Episode 4: Colin Varrall
Episode 4: Colin Varrall Colin Varrall works for South East Coast Ambulance Service and is an RNLI volunteer and local historian from Deal who has studied the many lifeboat stations along the…
S1E3 Episode 3: Tom Brown
Tom Brown was a fisherman who in 1979, alongside a local marine archaeological group, discovered the wreck of the Stirling Castle, a 70-gun Royal Navy vessel built in 1679 and wrecked on the Goodwin…
S1E1 Episode 1: William Horwood
William Horwood is a novelist who grew up in Deal in the 1950s within sight of the Goodwin Sands. His mother was instrumental in saving the now-beloved "old town" area of Middle Street from…
S1E2 Episode 2: Captain Hugh Belasyse-Smith
Captain Hugh Belasyse-Smith was a hovercraft pilot in the 1960s and 70s flying the Ramsgate to Calais route for what began as Hoverlloyd and eventually became Hoverspeed companies. He flew SR.N4 and…
Season Trailer
The Goodwin Sands are a pair of sandbanks off the Kent coast in the south-east corner of the British Isles which are notorious as a place of maritime disaster and a source of great local folk legend.…
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Shipwrecks, Sailors & Lost Souls has published 13 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Documentary, History.
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