Coast
The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine; rebuilding the Titanic using computer images; the story behind the first Butlins holiday camp; and the birth of the Severn Bore. Discover the curious, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between the British and the seas.
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Seasons
1.The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth
22-07-200560mTraditionally the South coast of England is where we've fought our battles, and defended ourselves. A hop, skip and a jump away from the continent, divided only by the narrow stret...
2.The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol
24-07-200560mDr Alice Roberts investigates how greed led to a village being washed into the sea; Nick unearths the history of slavery in Plymouth; while Neil and Mark try to wreck a ship with n...
3.Times and Tides: Bristol To Cardigan Bay
29-07-200560mSouth Wales has the second highest tidal range in the world. It is the tidal surge that creates the Severn Bore: Nick follows the wave upstream; whilst Neil explores the history of...
4.The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee
31-07-200560mNeil discovers the story of a Welsh Atlantis lost beneath the waves; Miranda goes in search of leatherback turtles; whilst Alice descends into the caves of Great Orme and Nick cano...
5.Shifting Sands: Liverpool To Solway Firth
05-08-200560mAlice discovers 5,000 year old footprints on the beach; whilst Nick investigates our worst lifeboat disaster; Mark is on the track of the Roman conquest of Northern Europe in Maryp...
6.The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast
07-08-200560mNick investigates how the building of the Antrim Coast mirrors the troubled history of the province; Neil uses computer imagery to rebuild the Titanic; Alice heads to the Giants Ca...
7.Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles
12-08-200560mNeil joins the crew of the trident submarine HMS Vanguard; Miranda goes hunting for Minke whales; whilst Mark and Neil recreate the inter island rocket mail service; and Nick sails...
8.Life On The Edge: Cape Wrath To Orkney
14-08-200560mNick takes part in a NATO exercise at the Cape Wrath bombing range; Neil meets the descendants of the people displaced by the Highland Clearances; and the survivors of the worst lo...
9.The Working Coast: John O'Groats To Berwick
19-08-200560mMiranda heads to the Moray Firth, home to bottle nosed dolphins; Nick investigates the impact of the North Sea oil industry; whilst Neil meets a fishing family in Fraserburgh, faci...
10.The Forgotten Coast: Berwick To Whitby
21-08-200560mNick explores the holy island of Lindisfarne; Alice helps rebuild Britain's first house in Howick; whilst Neil examines the tensions in South Shields that led to race riots in the...
11.The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash
26-08-200560mNick retraces the steps of smugglers in Robin Hoods Bay; Neil goes to the first Butlins Holiday camp in Skegness; whilst Mark sets sail in a recreated bronze age boat; and Alice re...
12.The Vanishing Coast: The Wash To Dover
28-08-200560mNick investigates the freak floods of 1953; Alice explores the landbridge which joined us to the continent; whilst Nick meets Peter Boggis, a man trying to save his home from the s...
- Ep 13
13.The Future Coast
02-09-200560mThe final programme examines coastal issues highlighted in earlier episodes: sea level rise and erosion; the health of our seas and wildlife, power generation; and access to our co...
- Ep 14
14.Coast Revisited: West of Scotland - Dover
25-12-200560m
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