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Travellers' Tales: Atlantic Adventure

BBC One
on BBC One London

Written by Bill Latto.
Told by Patrick Barr.
Rounding the Cape of Good Hope in the wake of the tea clippers-that's where tonight's traveller, lone yachts-man Francis Chichester, hopes to be by today, if he and his yacht Gipsy Moth IV have had fair winds. And as Chichester sails on towards Australia, tonight's programme recalls an earlier voyage--the single-handed. Transatlantic Race of 1964 which Chichester, then aged 63, did not win-but when he still achieved a personal goal.

Adapted by BBC television from the film Atlantic Adventure, produced for Whitbread and Co. Ltd., by Town and Country Productions Ltd.

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Latto
Narrator:
Patrick Barr
Subject:
Francis Chichester
Filmed by:
Alan Masters
Series edited by:
Brian Branston
Source: Radio Times

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