Coast

Coast (2005)

★ 7.5 1h 0m Documentary

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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Episodes

  1. 1 1. Heart Of The British Isles - A Grand Tour2010-07-25 · 1h 0mIn this first episode the team embark on an extraordinary circular tour of the Irish Sea to visit every country and territory within the United Kingdom. The hub for this wheel arou
  2. 2 2. Swanage to Land's End2010-07-28 · 1h 0mNeil Oliver performs the lead role in an extract from Shakespeare’s "The Tempest" on the stage of a remarkable coastal amphitheatre near Land's End. Nick Crane ventures out into th
  3. 3 3. Brittany2010-08-04 · 1h 0mNeil Oliver explores the province of Finistère, "The End of the Earth", and meets a lighthouse keeper made famous by one of the world's most reproduced photographs. Nick Crane join
  4. 4 4. Gower to Anglesey2010-08-08 · 1h 0mNeil Oliver takes part in an aerial dogfight to discover why a Nazi flying ace landed his top secret new plane on Welsh tarmac at the height of the Second World War. Miranda Kresto
  5. 5 5. Galway to Arranmore Island2010-08-11 · 1h 0mJust five months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he was riding in an open top limo through the crowded streets of Galway. Neil Oliver meets the photogr
  6. 6 6. Glasgow to Edinburgh via Caledonian Canal2010-08-18 · 1h 0mNeil Oliver joins the crew of the last surviving coal fired, steam-powered, "Clyde Puffer". Amateur artist Alice Roberts explores what drew Joan Eardley to Catterline and how her l
  7. 7 7. Denmark2010-08-25 · 1h 0mThe Danes top the polls as the happiest people on earth and Neil Oliver wants to know what they have to smile about. Nick Crane investigates how the Danish made a big business out
  8. 8 8. Hull to London2010-09-01 · 1h 0mNeil Oliver visits the birth place of his seafaring hero Lord Nelson. On the eerie shingle bank of Orford Ness, Alice Roberts leads a team trying to recreate the original war-winni

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