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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

71. Saving Lives at Sea, Smalls Lighthouse, Pembrokeshire

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

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News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.7 β€’ 1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week Neil spends time on one of the most notorious lighthouses in the world – a place with a profound sense of isolation and a dark history.


The British Isles are home to an island race, and to survive and thrive its people have depended on a mastery of the seaways and protection from its dangerous coasts. Ever since King Henry VIII Britain have made lighthouses their own. Dotted around the coastline these engineering marvels have become part of the landscape, sentinels and beacons of hope.


In this episode Neil weaves the history of lighthouses, the story of the courageous lighthouse keepers who protect lives at sea, with the tragic events that took place on Smalls Lighthouse, off the Pembrokeshire coast.


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features a mix of history, comment and current affairs. On my site there's a

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whole archive of films to watch there's one on the history of pandemics, which is topical obviously, another on new humans.

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look forward to seeing you there. Okay that's the news about my Patreon site. Here comes this

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They look. They looked up from the ship and they could see that the lid of Thomas Griffith's

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coffin had been smashed by weather and they could see his body and his arm was out and it seemed to be beckoning to them because

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it was his dead arm was blowing in the wind.

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In this episode we're casting our eyes over the rugged British Isles, a collection of storm-swept rocks, home to an island race, to survive and thrive its people have depended on a mastery of the world's

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