The Disappearance of Grace Oakeshott
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
At the start of the 20th century, Britain was slowly becoming a freer place for women. Young Grace Oakeshott seized every opportunity to learn and improve the world around her - though she found those opportunities frustratingly narrow. One day, she vanished suddenly, leaving behind only a pile of clothes on a beach. A hundred years later, the truth about Grace’s disappearance has finally come to light.
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| 0:47.0 | On the beach at Arzon, in France, a woman goes for a swim. |
| 0:52.7 | She leaves her clothes in a neat pile, petticoats and skirts pressed into careful folds. |
| 1:00.3 | It's a common sight. |
| 1:01.9 | This part of France is popular with tourists. |
| 1:04.2 | They come to explore Celtic ruins and whitewashed fishing villages |
| 1:09.3 | to breathe sea air and watch blood-red sunsets from |
| 1:14.5 | the Hotel de la Plage. The swimming at Arsong is excellent. Bathers float on warm currents towards |
| 1:23.7 | pine-fringed islands. But there's danger here, too. |
| 1:29.4 | Cold currents and treacherous riptides |
| 1:32.1 | have been known to swallow unfortunate swimmers. |
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