History's Youngest Heroes: Grace Darling: Maiden of the Sea

History's Heroes

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When a reclusive young woman spots a shipwreck off the coast of Northumberland, she embarks on a perilous rescue mission. Little does she know, it will make her world-famous.

Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary young people from across history. Join her for 12 stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.

A BBC Studios Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producer: Suniti Somaiya Edit Producer: Melvin Rickarby Assistant Producer: Lorna Reader Executive Producer: Paul Smith Written by Alex von Tunzelmann Commissioning editor for Radio 4: Rhian Roberts

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0:00.0	Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.
0:05.0	But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,
0:09.0	lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.
0:13.0	On a match day, everyone was your enemy.
0:15.0	We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.
0:19.0	It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.
0:22.6	They were destroying the football club.
0:24.9	The game I alone.
0:26.0	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:39.7	Grace Darling slid both bolts on the door.
0:46.6	She lit her oil lamp and walked up the spiral staircase of the Longstone lighthouse.
0:51.1	Her mother and father called out goodnight as she passed their bedroom.
0:53.8	The time was after midnight.
0:56.2	Grace was on watch till dawn.
0:58.7	It was September 1838.
1:04.0	Grace, age 22, looked out at the distant Northumbrian coast.
1:10.2	The Farn Islands, it's like archipelago, and they're a mixture of rocks and islands.
1:13.9	Some of the rocks are submerged or half submerged.
1:17.2	The longstone is the outermost rock.
1:20.2	Grace had lived most of her life on the foreign islands.
1:24.6	Since childhood, she'd helped her father learning how to keep a lighthouse.
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