NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/22/2005
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/24/2005
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!
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Times and Tides: Bristol To Cardigan Bay
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/29/2005
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 Cardiff coal; and Alice gets acquainted with the Red Lady of Paviland.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - The Travellers Coast: Cardigan Bay To The Dee
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/31/2005
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 the treacherous Menai Straits, to examine the bridges across to Anglesey.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Shifting Sands: Liverpool To Solway Firth
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2005
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - The Troubled Coast: The Northern Ireland Coast
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/7/2005
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 and Mark explores the wreck of a Spanish Armada treasure ship.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Islands And Inlets: West Coast Of Scotland And Western Isles
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/12/2005
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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Life On The Edge: Cape Wrath To Orkney
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/14/2005
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 British Naval life in Scapa Flow; whilst Alice visits the Dounreay reactor.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - The Working Coast: John O'Groats To Berwick
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/19/2005
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 bleak future; and Alice reflects on the history of whaling in Dundee.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Forgotten Coast: Berwick To Whitby
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/21/2005
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.
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#11 - The Inventive Coast: Robin Hood's Bay To The Wash
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/26/2005
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!
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - The Vanishing Coast: The Wash To Dover
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/28/2005
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; and Neil celebrates Trafalgar 200 examining an eye witness account of the battle.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - The Future Coast
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/2/2005
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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#14 - Coast Revisited: West of Scotland - Dover
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/2005
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Dover To Isle of Wight
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/26/2006
The beautiful cliffs of Dover are a breathtaking sight. On this stretch of the coastline chalk has not only defined and shaped the landscape but has also been the starting point of many innovators and their pioneering work. Our guide Neil Oliver takes over from Nicholas Crane this series, and guides us along this journey of beautiful scenery and remarkable discoveries.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Holyhead To Liverpool
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/2/2006
Neil Oliver explores an inaccessible cave inlaid with beautiful stonework - who was the mystery builder? Nick shows us how to read the history of your local beach and Alice traces the story of a foreign boy washed up on the Welsh shore and how he changed the history of medicine.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Arran To Gretna
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2006
Why did Alfred Nobel, founder of the famous prizes, pick the South West of Scotland as the ideal site for the world's biggest explosives factory? Nicholas Crane discovers the remarkable use for the island of Ailsa Craig's beautiful granite.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Cornwall & The Isles Of Scilly
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/2006
Neil Oliver discovers the network of cables under a Porthcurno beach which wrap around the world in a tale of invention, espionage and surprise. Mark Horton visits the Isles of Scilly to meet the two football teams battling it out in Britain's smallest league and Alice Roberts paints up a storm in St Ives.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Dublin To Derry
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/23/2006
Discover why Dublin is the greatest coastal city, join Mark Horton as he goes in search of the wreck of the SS Great Britain and Miranda Krestovnikoff spends a day at the races. Alice Roberts visits a remarkable house designed to see the sea from every room.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Newcastle To Hull
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/30/2006
The concrete and steel of the North East coast conceal a remarkable history of religious passion that transformed Britain and touched every corner of the world. Neil Oliver explores this ancient coastal landscape and also reveals its contribution to the abolition of the slave trade.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - The Outer Hebrides
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/7/2006
At the outermost edge of the British Isles, we discover the struggle to survive in this harsh but stunningly beautiful myriad of islands big and small. Crystal clear water and powder white beaches conceal a history of human tragedy and joy.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Felixstowe To Margate
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/2006
Alice Roberts savours the sea salt at Maldon, Miranda Krestovnikoff goes trawling on the Thames and we discover how the houses of Parliament can claim to be on the coast. We end the series with a remarkable cricket match miles out to sea on the eerie tidal landscape at Goodwin Sands.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Shetland To Orkney
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 6/3/2007
Over 230 islands make up the Northern Isles - The Shetland and Orkney. These magnificent islands are made up of rock stacks, secret inlets and spectacular scenery, surrounded by sometimes extreme sea and weather conditions that have shaped these islands. Neil Oliver joins an expedition climbing the Old Man of Hoy in Orkney and finds out about the Second World War freedom fighters who risked their lives running the "Shetland Bus". Miranda Krestovnikoff goes in search of an elusive octopus, Nicholas Crane finds evidence of a tsunami that devastated Britain 7,000 years ago and Alice Roberts unearths a mysterious skeleton that reveals more about the lives of ancient Shetlanders.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Bournemouth To Plymouth
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 6/10/2007
Neil explores why Sandbanks in Poole Harbour has some of the world's most expensive houses. Alice builds her own coastal 'property' as she investigates the perfect sandcastle. Dick joins an American serviceman on an emotional journey, as he returns to the beach where he was given up for dead during World War Two.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Southport To Whitehaven (Inc. The Isle Of Man)
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 6/17/2007
Miranda is in search of the biggest sharks in British waters. Mark sees the Royal Navy's next generation of top secret 'Attack' nuclear submarines and Alice meets a woman who as a child was in the Isle of Man's internment camps, where 'enemy aliens' in Britain were held during the Second World War.
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The Best Episodes of Coast
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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...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"The Frontline: Dover To Exmouth" is the best rated episode of "Coast". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/22/2005. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "The Wild West: Exmouth To Bristol".