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Coast - Series 2 - Dover to Isle of Wight

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A journey around the coast of the UK. Historian Neil Oliver discovers the history of the Victorian Channel tunnel and why it was never finished. Anthropologist Alice Roberts is on the Isle of Wight to uncover Britain's space rocket testing site. Alice meets the men who helped launch Britain's first satellite - can they find it up in space 35 years later? Geographer Nicholas Crane hangs off the cliffs near Beachy Head to discover how the chalk coast was made, and why it's disappearing fast.