• Premiered: Jul 2005
  • Episodes: 83
  • Followers: 7
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Tuesday
  • Documentary Travel

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Season 1
1x1
The Frontline: Dover to Exmouth
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 22, 2005
Traditionally 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 stretch of the English Channel. It is Britain's front line.
1x2
The Wild West: Exmouth to Bristol
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 24, 2005
Dr 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 nothing but a candle; and Miranda comes face to face with a shark!
1x3
Times and Tides: Bristol to Cardigan Bay
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 29, 2005
South 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 .. show full overview
1x4
The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay to the Dee
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Air date
Jul 31, 2005
Neil 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 canoes in .. show full overview
1x5
Shifting Sands: Liverpool to Solway Firth
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Air date
Aug 05, 2005
Alice 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 Maryport and Neil ventures onto the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay.
1x6
The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast
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Air date
Aug 07, 2005
Nick 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 Causeway .. show full overview
1x7
Islands and Inlets: West Coast of Scotland and Western Isles
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Air date
Aug 12, 2005
Neil 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 the beautiful Western Isles armed only with a 500 year guide book.
1x8
Life on the Edge: Cape Wrath to Orkney
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 14, 2005
Nick 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 loss of .. show full overview
1x9
The Working Coast: John O'Groats to Berwick
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Air date
Aug 19, 2005
Miranda 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, facing a .. show full overview
1x10
The Forgotten Coast: Berwick to Whitby
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Air date
Aug 21, 2005
Nick 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 1930s and Miranda gets up close and personal with grey seals.
1x11
The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay to the Wash
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 26, 2005
Nick 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 recreates alum crystals using stale urine!
1x12
The Vanishing Coast: The Wash to Dover
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 28, 2005
Nick 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 sea; .. show full overview
1x13 Season finale
The Future Coast
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 02, 2005
The 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 coast; as well as development.

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