Podcasts
A Challenger’s Song Podcasts
These podcasts from the book’s 25 chapters tell the story of Charlie’s life at sea and then, after he left the Navy in 1876, his life and times ashore in Brighton, including his wife, Mary.
Narrators:
Laila Sumpton,
David Judson,
Philip Pearson
Voices:
Charlie Collins: Hugh Simpson
Joe Matkin: Zac Lamdin
Mary Collins: Pen Woods
Podcasts
Chapter 1: Collision: February 1874
Chapter 2: Boy Sailor, Portsmouth: 1 January 1863
Chapter 3: Ellis Banfield, Brighton: June 1863
Chapter 4: Mary: January 1871
Chapter 5: ‘Keep an eye on our lad’: November 1872
Chapter 6: Turkey bones: Christmas 1872
Chapter 7: Willing William: March 1873
Chapter 8: Whip in hand: September 1873
Chapter 9: Inaccessible Island: October 1873
Chapter 10: Inaccessible Island: A rescue recounted
Chapter 11: Termination Land: February 1874
Chapter 12: Some hope, some anchor: January 1875
Chapter 13: Sounding 139: 23 March 1875
Chapter 14: Leialoha: 27 July 1875
Chapter 15: Homecoming, Chatham: 11 June 1876
Chapter 16: Black Rock, Brighton: August 1879
Chapter 17: In on the tide, Brighton: August 1886
Chapter 18: ‘Bloody fine mackerel’: May 1887
Chapter 19: Iron casting, Brighton: 19 August 1901
Chapter 20: Loyalty, purity and hope: 16 January 1908
Chapter 21: Of human bondage, Brighton: June 1918
Chapter 22: Pearls before swine: Summer 1923
Chapter 23: ‘My pretties’: Spring 1925
Chapter 24: A laundress, like her mother: 7 June 1928
Chapter 25: Four plumed horses: October 1932