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Afternoon Play: Hard Row to Porlock

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Eric Pringle.
In one of the most remarkable of true-life rescue stories, the Lynmouth lifeboat crew in 1899 carried their boat over five miles by land to save a ship in distress.
(Repeat)

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Pringle
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Rev Hockley:
John Rowe
Billy Richards:
Tom Bevan
Innkeeper:
Hugh Dickson
[Actor]:
Chris Wright
[Actor]:
Iwan Thomas
[Actor]:
Brian Parr
[Actor]:
Stephen Thorne
[Actor]:
Gerard McDermott
[Actor]:
Alison Pettitt

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