EPISODE 371 - The three hundred-and-seventy-first-episode

Adrift with Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port

Geoff Lloyd/Annabel Port

Comedy

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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The incredible true story of the Robertsons, a young British family who sold everything they owned to sail around the world. When disaster strikes, their dream voyage turns into a desperate fight for survival in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Plus, Geoff attends a candlelit concert, and Annabel attends a school reunion

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0:00.0	It's the early 1970s.
0:19.0	It's the early 1970s, and a young British family is attempting to sail around the world when catastrophe strikes.
0:29.0	The Robertsons have sold everything they own to embark on this trip, but their epic odyssey soon turns into a desperate fight for their lives in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
0:40.7	Dougal and Lynn, their teenage children, Douglas and Anne, and 12-year-old twins, Sandy and Neil, find themselves hundreds of miles from land with few supplies, no radio contact, and surrounded by sharks.
0:54.2	Drifting in the vast emptiness,
0:56.0	they must rely on their instinct
0:57.9	and harness the elements to survive.
1:00.9	Yet, even with deadly predators circling,
1:04.3	they discover that sometimes their worst enemy is themselves.
1:13.5	More about them coming up later.
1:18.0	What?
1:19.6	What's happening?
1:21.6	Well, have you not heard?
1:23.6	No, what?
1:25.2	Apple Podcasts have launched a brand new series called Adrift.
1:32.9	They have not.
1:34.5	Yes.
1:35.7	Now.
1:36.0	They have not.
1:37.4	At first, I thought, could this be our ticket out of this hellhole?
1:42.9	Is there some kind of litigation to be done here?
1:48.0	And I asked chat GPT and I don't think there is. So I'm going for a plan B and hopefully there'll be
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