Indian Ocean Castaways: Island Life (Part 2 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Wilderness, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We return to the stranded crew of the Miken. After locating the elusive island, Gordon and the others must turn their focus to the reason they’re here in the first place: finding the barrels of fuel. But as days in the jungle pass without success, a terrible possibility starts to dawn… maybe there is no fuel here at all. Unable to power their boat, the castaways must deal with a new challenge: merely surviving on their desert island… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound Supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design by Matt Peaty | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For more on this story read Gordon's book, Survival in Paradise. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at support@noiser.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	It's March 1981.
0:43.3	On a remote island in the Indian Ocean, three people, a young man and two young women, sit on the beach, staring out to sea. It looks as if they've been here for some time.
0:46.3	Their hair is long and straggly, and their ribs are clearly defined beneath sun-tanned skin.
0:53.3	28-year-old Gordon Brace leans back on the bony points of his elbows and gazes at the ocean.
1:01.0	Feathery white clouds fleck the sky, teasing the castaways with the prospect of a rain shower.
1:07.3	How badly they could do with one.
1:10.6	The heat has been sweltering these last few days,
1:13.9	putting a strain on their limited supply of drinking water.
1:19.3	Gordon is staring into the lagoon,
1:22.6	when suddenly,
1:25.3	after three months marooned,
1:27.1	the castaway senses have become heightened, alert to any boat-shaped
1:31.2	specks on the horizon, or any unusual sounds from the sky. Gordon sits up. His two fellow
1:40.3	castaways, Elizabeth and Nicole, do the same. They've heard it too. We knew immediately it was a play, and it was just action stations, and we had prepared for this.
1:50.0	The marooned sailors leap to their feet. This is not a drill. Nicole sprints to an SOS sign etched in the sand,
1:58.0	filling in the letters with sticks and palm fronds.
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