38 days: a family adrift in the Pacific

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Robertsons' boat was attacked by killer whales and started to sink fast

Douglas was 16 years old when his parents sold the family farm in England and took him and his three siblings on a sailing trip around the world. It was the adventure of a lifetime. But in 1972 while en route to New Zealand, their yacht was hit by a pod of orcas and they started to sink fast. Weeks from safety and with no way to send for help, Douglas and his family would have to try and find a way to survive.

Presenter: Mobeen Azhar Producer: May Cameron Editor: Andrea Kennedy Sound design: Joel Cox

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex von Tundselman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.8	Amazing Sports Stories,
0:33.7	coming soon to the BBC World Service.
0:36.0	Nothing is ever quite as expected.
0:38.6	Yep, it's wild.
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0:52.6	We could tell each other a story about tomato soup, make it last 15 minutes, and we would be
0:58.4	absolutely hanging on every word. How much pepper did you put in that tomato soup? Did you put
1:03.4	a butter in it, for instance? And if you take bread, and how much butter would you put on that
1:07.1	bread? Would it be crusty bread or would it be some other kind of bread?
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