episode description
Prompted by historical sources and literary clues, historian Bella Bathurst embarks on a global quest to uncover the hidden world of wreckers. From Fiji to Finland, wherever ships are lost, communities have profited from disaster. Yet wrecking remains shrouded in myth, revealed only through folklore and fiction. Bella travels Britain’s remotest coasts—Scilly, Orkney, Anglesey, Goodwin Sands—meeting descendants of wreckers and exposing the dark, ingenious, sometimes murderous history behind this misunderstood profession.
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