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All 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 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it

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Season 1

9.2/1010 votes
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!
Director: Unknown
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8.9/109 votes
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!
Director: Unknown
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8.9/109 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.9/109 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.9/1010 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.8/109 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.8/109 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.8/1010 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.8/1010 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.6/1010 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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8.6/1012 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
7.5/1014 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votes
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.
Director: Unknown
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N/A/100 votes
Coast Revisited: West of Scotland - Dover
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/2005
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Director: Unknown
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