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On The Hill tells stories about Cornish cemeteries and those buried there. We reassemble their lives and our human history, and we respond to them with original creative writing.

S01 Episode 12: Jacques Goudstikker the Famous Jewish Art Dealer with Sherezade Garcia Rangel (Part II)

May 14, 2021

In the second part of this season finale, Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his family secure passage on the S.S. Bodegraven alongside 2...

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S01 Episode 12: Jacques Goudstikker the Famous Jewish Art Dealer with Sherezade Garcia Rangel (Part I)

May 14, 2021

On the 14th of May 1940 Jewish Dutch art dealer Jacques Goudstikker and his family are trying to escape the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands by sea on...

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S01 Episode 11: Roy Coote and Boxing with Adrian Markle

December 18, 2020

In the 1920s and 1930s the town of Penryn, Conrwall, was renowned for its boxing scene. A young local boy, Roy Coote, pursued his interest in the spor...

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S01 Episode 10: Maritime Painter Charles Napier Hemy RA with Sarah Cave

November 23, 2020

On May 1841 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Charles Napier Hemy is born. He would spend his early life trying to decide if his calling was in the church, at s...

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S01 Episode 09: George Kerswell Sheaff and the HMS Ganges with Amy Lilwall

October 23, 2020

On November 1899, a man jumps off a yacht to save someone who has fallen into the water. His name was George Kerswell Sheaff, from Portwrinkle, Cornwa...

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S01 Episode 08: Miśko Molnár the First Czechoslovak Sailor in Poland with Sherezade Garcia Rangel

March 27, 2020

On September 1933, the legendary Polish frigate Dar Pomorza left Gdynia on its winter trip to check on Polish colonies with shores on the Atlantic. Al...

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S01 Episode 07: William Bilkie the last mail coach guard with Jennifer Young

February 28, 2020

In the mid-1850s, William Stevens Bilkie was working as a mail coach guard from Falmouth to Plymouth. The arrival of the train to Cornwall in 1859 wou...

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S01 Episode 06: Countess Ellen Odette Cuffe or 'The Weeping Widow' and Amy Lilwall

January 17, 2020

Legend has it that Irish Jewish Countess Ellen Odette Cuffe requested that her hand was joined with her husband’s when she was buried in Falmouth Ceme...

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S01 Episode 05: Henry Philip Creese and the Titanic with A J Dalton

December 20, 2019

On April 10 1912, the Titanic sailed from Southampton. A few Cornish passengers were on board, including deck engineer Henry Philip Creese, memorialis...

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S01 Episode 04: Artist Winifred Freeman with Anna Kiernan and Glyn Winchester

November 22, 2019

In 1866 Winifred Freeman is born into a family of Lamorna Granite Merchants. She would go on to challenge conventions and earn her living as a painter...

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