BBC Radio 4 Saturday 2 March
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is an organisation that it's difficult to imagine anyone inventing today. In great part, that's because of the sheer scope of its work. Despite being a charity supported principally by legacies and donations, it has a central role in keeping people safe in the seas off the British Isles. A measure of the RNLI's success is that, since its foundation on 4 March 1824, it's estimated to have
