In Waterford, Alice Roberts learns how to make glass from sand. Neil Oliver also engages with an ancient skill, the extraction of entire millstones from Herrylock beach using the power of the sea. He later visits the oldest intact operational lighthouse in the world at Hook Head.
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Series 8 Reversions: Episode 15
On their journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, the team look at the secret life of the sea and how it shapes our cliffs.
17-01-2025
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Series 8 Reversions: 5. All At Sea
The coast team are all at sea as they head offshore to explore surprising stories.
01-12-2024
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Series 8 Reversions: Episode 12
The Coast team explores some of the most spectacular and scary sea cliffs in Britain.
30-11-2024
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Series 9 - Offshore!
Coast embarks on its first adventure to North America, exploring British connections far offshore and surprising stories in the waters just off Britain's shoreline.
30-07-2024
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Series 4 Reversions: 14. Brighton's Early Cinema
Neil Oliver becomes a silent movie director as he films a scene from The Mayor of Casterbridge using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton taught the world to ma ...
09-05-2024
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Series 8 Reversions: 14. Rivers And Seas Collide 2
The Coast team visit the most dynamic and dramatic of our waterways to discover surprising stories that emerge where rivers and seas collide.
07-05-2024
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Series 8 Reversions: Episode 19
The team are 'all at sea', as they head offshore to explore surprising stories.
06-05-2024
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Series 4 Reversions - The Needles: Isle Of Wight
Nicholas Crane crosses the Solent to find out what's happened to England's largest island - the Isle of Wight.
02-05-2024
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Series 7 - Peril From The Seas
Coast ventures to the furthest flung reaches of the British Isles. Nick Crane tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703.
07-01-2020
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Shorts: 34. Blackwater
Nicholas Crane and a team of experts explore Britain's coastline and the relationship between people and the sea. They visit the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.
25-09-2016
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Shorts: 77. Land Slides
Nicholas Crane unearths the story of massive mudslides in Lyme Regis, meeting a man who can at last rebuild his house - 40 years after it was demolished by a landslip.
03-03-2016
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Series 7: 3. The Hidden History Of Harbours
Coast ventures to the furthest flung reaches of the British Isles. Looking at harbours which were once Britain's gateways to global adventure.
06-01-2020
BBC 2
Series 5 Reversions - Galway To Arranmore Island
A journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.
12-05-2014
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Shorts: 35. The Welsh Atlantis
Nicholas Crane takes a stroll around the churchyard of St Bridget's, where the gravestones reveal the adventurous spirit of past generations. Neil Oliver investigates the submer ...
12-10-2015
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