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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Jul 22, 2005
- Popularity: 10.0133
- 7 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Production
BBC Birmingham (GB)
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
11 seaons till Aug 13, 2015
Last episode: The Great Guide: Our Irish Sea Coast
Seasons & episodes
Total 11 seasons, 76 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1Coast The Journey Continues: Dover to Carrick-a-Rede60 min
Neil Oliver revisits some of the defining areas from the last two series. The first of the return journeys starts at Dover and heads along the South Coast of England, then sweeps around the dramatic peninsula of Cornwall. It then crosses the Irish Sea to Dublin for a bracing encounter with the coastline of Northern Ireland.
Episode 2Coast The Journey Continues: Southport to Dover60 min
Neil Oliver revisits some of the defining areas from the last two series. This return journey starts in north-west England, heads north to Scotland and the Outer Hebrides, then leaps across to the Shetlands. It then returns down the east coast of Scotland and back into England concluding in the south-east, at Dover.
Episode 3Shorts: Trondheim, Svalbard and the Lofoten Islands60 min
The Coast team continue to explore coastlines around the world.
Episode 4Shorts: Norwegian Energy60 min
Alice Roberts visits a processing plant that supplies one-fifth of Britain's gas requirements via the world's longest sub-sea pipeline. In 40 years the gas will all be gone, but Alice discovers a potential new form of renewable energy - osmotic power.
Episode 5Shorts: Ravenscar to Hull60 min
Mark Horton travels to Ravenscar to investigate the resort that never was, and Neil Oliver is in Hull to retrace the footsteps of 19th-century immigrants who passed through the port on their way to a new life in the New World.
