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Series 7 Reversions: 8. The Hidden History of Harbours 2
A look at the hidden history of harbours, which, before air travel, were Britain's gateways to global adventure. There are more than a thousand ports, big and small, around the UK coastline, all with fascinating secret stories, many of them revealed for the first time in this episode.
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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 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.
25-06-2024
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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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Shorts - Sand
A look around the coast of the British Isles. Alice Roberts boards a dredger to discover a precious resource: sand from the seabed for building sites and garden makeovers.
03-06-2014
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Shorts: 37. Optical Telegraph
Documentary series exploring the coastline of the United Kingdom. No pigeons, no Morse code; yet in 1826, messages were sent from Holyhead to Liverpool in seconds.
16-10-2015
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Series 9 - Secret Paths To Hidden Treasures
Nick Crane visits Cape Wrath, discovering where wolves once trod. Ruth Goodman explores the Victorian craze for collecting ferns.
20-06-2018
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Series 8 Reversions: 18. Rivers And Seas Collide
Nick Crane explores the wealth of wildlife attracted to the Firth of Forth. Tessa Dunlop reveals how the Victorian zeal for cleanliness turned the Thames into a giant toilet bowl.
21-07-2020
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Series 4 Reversions: 22. Whitstable To Red Sands Sea Fort
Beginning at the famous Oyster Festival in Whitstable, Neil Oliver ventures offshore to the remarkable Red Sands Sea Forts. Built as air defences in the Second World War they we ...
13-09-2023
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Series 2 Reversions - Arran
Neil Oliver travels the coast of the island of Arran.
31-07-2018
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Shorts: 9. East Coast: The Wash
Nicholas Crane explores Britain's eastern coastline. He visits the Wash in Norfolk and wades through the vast salt marshes and mudflats.
15-10-2015
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