Coast - Shorts
Brief visits to Britain's beautiful coastline
Coast - Shorts - Alderney
Nicholas Crane travels along the south coast of Britain, and Neil Oliver flies to Alderney in the Channel Islands to uncover the horrific history of Nazi atrocities there.
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Coast - Shorts - Berwick
Nicholas Crane explores Britain's coastline and the relationship between citizens and the sea.
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Coast - Shorts - Black Fort on Aran
Neil Oliver discovers how the island of Aran was once a bigger island by visiting the prehistoric Black Fort built thousands of years ago.
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Coast - Shorts - Blackpool
Hermione Cockburn investigates the astonishing rate at which the sands around Southport are disappearing into the sea, as the team visits the north-west of England.
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Coast - Shorts - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - Brighton's Early Cinema
Neil Oliver films a scene from The Mayor of Casterbridge using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton made movies long before Hollywood.
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Coast - Shorts - Brunel's Railway
Mark Horton travels on Brunel's Great Western Railway along the stunning south coast of Devon, considered one of Britain's most amazing railway journeys.
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Coast - Shorts - Cardiff and Barry
Neil Oliver is in Cardiff's new marina, then travels to the beaches at Barry, talking about its popularity in days of old.
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Coast - Shorts - Carrickfergus to Ballintoy
Alice Roberts visits the Irish salt mines at Carrickfergus. In Balintoy, she visits the unique Bendhu House perched on a cliff.
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Coast - Shorts - Channel Islands and Dover Straits
Neil Oliver is in the Channel Islands and kayaks over to Les Echrehous before heading to Sark. Sue Daly talks about diving in the Islands.
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Coast - Shorts - Channel Islands to Dover
Alice Roberts explores Jersey's remarkable post-war transformation from Nazi-occupied stronghold to 'honeymoon Island'.
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Coast - Shorts - Choughs
Neil Oliver discovers the choughs which have recently returned to the Cornish coast.
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Coast - Shorts - Clams and Mussels
Exploring Britain's coastline. A visit to Anglesey in search of the longest-living creature on earth, the Arctic clam, and the biggest mussel fishery in the UK.
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Coast - Shorts - Coastal Erosion
Nicholas Crane and a team of experts present a series exploring Britain's coastline. Nick meets Peter Boggis, a man trying to save his home from coastal erosion.
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Coast - Shorts - Copper
A look around the coast of the British Isles. Mark Horton explores how Swansea's monopoly of the copper trade helped Nelson towards his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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Coast - Shorts - Cromer
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane investigates the freak floods of 1953 and meets Peter Boggis, a man trying to save his home from the sea.
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Coast - Shorts - Cuttlefish and Pompey
Miranda Krestovnikoff goes diving in search of cuttlefish off the shores of Portsmouth, and Mark Horton visits the historic Royal Navy dockyard at Portsmouth.
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Coast - Shorts - Dounreay
Nicholas Crane explores some of the remotest parts of the west coast of Scotland. He introduces Alice Roberts who gets to see the Dounreay nuclear reactor being decommissioned.
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Coast - Shorts - Dover to Selsey Bill
Kate Rew, an outdoor swimmer, explains why swimming along the coast is the perfect antidote to the stress of modern life. Neil Oliver explores the Kent marshes.
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Coast - Shorts - Drake and the Cornish Sardines
From Plymouth, Nicholas Crane explores the part played by Sir Francis Drake in the foundation of the slave trade. Also, fishing for pilchards in Newlyn.
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Coast - Shorts - Dublin and the Laytown Races
Neil Oliver visits the Irish capital on the Liffey and Amanda Krestovnikoff enjoys horse racing on the seashore at the Laytown Races.
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Coast - Shorts - Dublin to Belfast
From Dublin northwards to Belfast, how the sea has shaped the island of Ireland on its eastern coast on both sides of the border. Neil Oliver investigates.
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Coast - Shorts - East Coast - Fish Fingers and Butlins
Nicholas Crane explores Britain's eastern coastline. He finds out how you make fish fingers, and goes to the first Butlins Holiday camp in Skegness.
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Coast - Shorts - East Coast - Smugglers, Alum and Scarborough Bay
Series about Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane travels to the seaside town of Robin Hood's Bay and Neil Oliver visits Scarborough.
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Coast - Shorts - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - Faroe Islands
Coast heads into the wild Atlantic to the majestic Faroe Islands, where Neil Oliver discovers how romance blossomed during the Second World War's 'Operation Valentine'.
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Coast - Shorts - Felixstowe
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Neil Oliver visits Britain's largest container port.
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Coast - Shorts - Foghorns
The team travel to the most Southerly point in Scotland to pay homage to Britain's defunct foghorns.
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Coast - Shorts - From the Royal Charter Gale to the Iron Men of Mersey
Neil Oliver explores Britain's coastline, visiting the scene of the Royal Charter's sinking and the Iron Men of Mersey.
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Coast - Shorts - Galloway Coast and Solway Firth
The team visits the vast, windswept mudflats of the Solway Firth, a haven for barnacle geese.
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Coast - Shorts - Galloway Coast and Solway Firth
Stornoway is the largest town on Lewis and the commercial hub for the islands. Alice Roberts discovers how this area of peat land was turned into a chemical works.
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Coast - Shorts - Galway Beans
Neil Oliver discovers how it was that mysterious flotsam washed up on the Galway shoreline via the Gulf Stream, and inspired Columbus's accidental discovery of America.
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Coast - Shorts - Glensanda
Neil Oliver travels to the Faroe Islands to discover how romance blossomed for British soldiers and Faroese women during the Second World War's Operation Valentine.
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Coast - Shorts - Govan Dolphins
Miranda Krestovnikoff joins the dolphins who come to the Welsh coast to raise their young.
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Coast - Shorts - Howick
A team of archaeologists unearths remains in Howick, which they believe are the Stone Age remains of Britain's first house.
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Coast - Shorts - Isle of Man
A journey around the coast of the United Kingdom. The team explore the Isle of Man, where Miranda Krestovnikoff searches for the biggest sharks in British waters.
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Coast - Shorts - John Paul Jones at Whitehaven
Neil Oliver discovers why a delegation from the US Navy is sent over to the port of Whitehaven every year to honour the Scot John Paul Jones.
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Coast - Shorts - Land Slides
Nicholas Crane unearths the story of massive mudslides in Lyme Regis, meeting a man who can at last rebuild his house - forty years after it was demolished by a landslip.
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Coast - Shorts - Lighthouse
Neil Oliver explores the extraordinary story of building Britain's most famous lighthouse on the perilous Eddystone rocks.
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Coast - Shorts - Lillesand to Geirangerfjord
Natural history programme. Coast explores the spectacular shoreline of Norway to discover Britain's age-old link to the land of the fjords.
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Coast - Shorts - Lindisfarne
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane examines the history of the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumberland coast in northeast England.
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Coast - Shorts - Lobsters
Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers how lobster stocks are being sustained by the local fishing industry in Padstow, Cornwall.
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Coast - Shorts - London
A look around the coast of the British Isles. Mark Horton looks at London's maritime history to find out if it qualifies as a coastal city or not.
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Coast - Shorts - Looe and Falmouth
Neil Oliver visits Cornwall, England's most coastal county, and discovers more about the fishing industry in the area. Miranda Krestovnikoff explores a shipwreck.
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Coast - Shorts - Lowestoft Pier
Mark Horton visits Claremont pier at Lowestoft to investigate the current perilous state of our seaside piers.
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Coast - Shorts - Milford Haven
Neil Oliver visits Chapel Bay Fort in Milford Haven. The ex-military fort is owned by George Geear, who has spent more than ten years restoring it.
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Coast - Shorts - NATO Exercise
Nicholas Crane visits Cape Wrath to join in a NATO military exercise with the Army, Navy and Air Force who are representing troops from Germany, the US and the UK.
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Coast - Shorts - Norman Construction
Mark Horton discovers how William the Conqueror taught the English how to construct castles, and why William looked to Normandy for the Tower of London's stone.
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Coast - Shorts - North Devon and Somerset Coasts
Documentary series. Neil Oliver is introduced to the joys of Victorian-style sea bathing in Ilfracombe, and Nick Crane climbs Exmoor's sea cliffs.
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Coast - Shorts - North-East Coast - Bamburgh
Nicholas Crane explores the link between Britain's coastline and its citizens. He visits Bamburgh in Northumberland, whose castle sits on a basalt crag.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland
Nicholas Crane explores Northern Ireland's rugged coastline. He investigates how the building of the Antrim coast road mirrors the troubled history of the province.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland- Antrim
Nicholas Crane explores Northern Ireland's coastline. He travels the Antrim Coast Road, a stretch popular with tourists for its scenic views.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland: Giant's Causeway
Nicholas Crane explores Northern Ireland's coastline and Alice Roberts investigates the myth and the beauty of the Giant's Causeway.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland - Strangford Lough
Nicholas Crane explores Strangford Lough, and with the help of zoologist Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers the significance of the tidal torrent and marine species.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland - Whitehead
Nicholas Crane explores Northern Ireland's coastline and Alice Roberts rediscovers an old and unusual walkway around the coast near Whitehead.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Ireland: Whitehead
Nicholas Crane explores Northern Ireland's coastline and Alice Roberts rediscovers an old and unusual walkway around the coast near Whitehead.
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Coast - Shorts - Northern Islands
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Neil Oliver discovers the story of the World War II freedom fighters who risked everything running the Shetland Bus.
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Coast - Shorts - Norwegian Energy
Alice Roberts visits a processing plant that supplies one-fifth of Britain's gas requirements via the world's longest sub-sea pipeline.
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Coast - Shorts - Old Head of Kinsale to Ardmore
Coast breaks new ground with a spectacular journey following the southern shoreline of Ireland, from the Old Head of Kinsale to Ardmore.
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Coast - Shorts - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - Orkney Octopus
Exploring the coast of the United Kingdom. Although Orkney's crime rate is low, one slippery thief is stealing lobsters. Miranda Krestovnikoff tracks the octopus.
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Coast - Shorts - Past Prosperity
Victorian postcards reveal Rhyl's glory years to Hermione Cockburn. Plus Neil Oliver finds out about the people who manned Liverpool's famous dockyards.
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Coast - Shorts - Pebbles
Nicholas Crane and a team of experts explore Britain's coastline and the relationship between people and the sea, and discover how the pebble makes detectives of us all.
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Coast - Shorts - Pendine Babs
Neil Oliver discovers why, eighty years ago, Pendine Sands, a beach in Wales, briefly became tagged the fastest place on earth.
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Coast - Shorts - Property Coast
Neil Oliver explores Sandbanks in Poole Harbour - one of the most expensive places in the world to buy a house. Plus, the story of the lighthouse on Eddystone rocks.
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Coast - Shorts - RAF Valley
At RAF Valley in Anglesey, Neil Oliver discovers if he's got the 'right stuff' to fly fighter jets as he takes to the sky with an instructor from the RAF's pilot factory.
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Coast - Shorts - Ravenscar to Hull
Neil Oliver is in Hull to retrace the footsteps of 19th-century immigrants who passed through the port on their way to a new life in the New World.
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Coast - Shorts - Rosyth to Sunderand
The team are travelling down the North East coast. Miranda Krestovnikoff manages to get out to Bass Rock and Neil Oliver investigates a legend in Cullercoats.
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Coast - Shorts - Rottingdean and Volks Electric Railway
A look around the coast of the British Isles. Mark Horton visits Rottingdean to peek over Rudyard Kipling's garden wall.
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Coast - Shorts - Saltburn to Scarborough
The team journey to Saltburn, a resort founded by the Victorian entrepreneur Henry Pease. His vision was to create a 'heavenly city above the cliffs'.
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Coast - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - Sand Castles
Alice Roberts goes to Weymouth, Lyme Regis and Torquay searching for the best sand and water combination to build the perfect sandcastle.
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Coast - Shorts - Scillies
Mark Horton visits the Isles of Scilly to find the ancient tombs on these 'isles of the dead'. We also meet the football teams that play in Britain's smallest league.
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Coast - Shorts - Scotland - Cardigan Bay
Nicholas Crane visits Scotland's west coast and watches the naming of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary's support ship Cardigan Bay.
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Coast - Shorts - Scotland - Faslane
Neil Oliver is given exclusive access to HMS Vanguard and discovers how the submarine manoeuvres itself in and out of the area of Faslane.
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Coast - Shorts - Scotland - Fishing
Nicholas Crane explores the fishing communities in Scotland, who have found their lives drastically changed over the last ten years.
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Coast - Shorts - Sefton Sands
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane visits the beautiful coastal area of Sefton Sands and the surrounding mudflats.
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Coast - Shorts - Sellafield
Zoologist Miranda Krestovnikoff visits Sellafield to discuss the long term impact and damaging effects on the environment from the dumping of radioactive waste into the sea.
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Coast - Shorts - Shetland Tsunami
Nicholas Crane discovers evidence of a giant tsunami, a tidal wave which devastated Britain and reshaped the Shetland coast about seven thousand years ago.
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Coast - Shorts - Shipwrecks
Nicholas Crane visits the Cornish coastline and discovers the mystery and tragedy behind many past shipwrecks.
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Coast - Shorts - Slapton Sands
Dick Strawbridge visits a resident of Slapton Sands who recalls the evacuation announcement by the Army in November 1943, when 3,000 homes were requisitioned.
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Coast - Shorts - Snettisham Floods
Nicholas Crane visits north Norfolk and discovers the dramatic effect that the weather can have on sea levels. He also looks at catastrophic floods.
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Coast - Shorts - Snowdonia to the Menai Straits
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane canoes the treacherous Menai Straits to examine the bridges across to Anglesey.
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Coast - Shorts - South Coast - Alderney
Neil Oliver takes in Punch and Judy and storms on his travels.
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Coast - Shorts - South Coast - The Jurassic Coast
Nicholas Crane travels along the south coast of Britain, where anthropologist Alice Roberts goes prospecting for oil along the Jurassic coastline.
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Coast - Shorts - South Uist to Harris
Documentary series. Neil Oliver battles the elements on a golf course designed by legendary golfer Tom Morris.
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Coast - Shorts - Southwold Art
The team journey around the shoreline of East Anglia. Mark Horton investigates the state of seaside piers, while Alice Roberts tries to capture Southwold on canvas.
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Coast - Shorts - St Ives
Neil Oliver leads the team to St Ives in Cornwall, England's most coastal county and inspiration for generations of artists.
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Coast - Shorts - St Kilda Archaeology
Neil Oliver visits the remote island of St Kilda to find out about conservation efforts on the largely uninhabited island.
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Coast - Shorts - Strangford Lough and Torr Head
Nicholas Crane explores the settlement of the Scots in the coastal area of Strangford Lough. He also looks at the Torr Head channel.
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Coast - Shorts - The Clan Chiefs
Nicholas Crane explores the west coast of Scotland. He discovers the history around the warrior clan chiefs who, in the 16th century, challenged the king.
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Coast - Shorts - The Great Orme
Geographer Nicholas Crane presents a journey around the coast of the UK. The team visit the limestone headland of the Great Orme in Llandudno, North Wales.
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Coast - Shorts - 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.
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Coast - Shorts - The Old Man of Hoy
Neil Oliver explains the history, climb and spectacular views of the Old Man of Hoy, at 450 feet tall one of the most impressive sea stacks in the United Kingdom.
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Coast - Shorts - The Welsh Atlantis
Nicholas Crane takes a stroll around the churchyard of St Bridget's, and Neil Oliver investigates submerged forests on the Welsh coast.
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Coast - Shorts - Tobermory and Knoydart
Nicholas Crane explores the west coast of Scotland, paying a visit to the town of Tobermory. Miranda Krestovnikoff looks for whales off the Hebrides.
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Coast - Shorts - Trondheim, Svalbard and the Lofoten Islands
The Coast team continue to explore coastlines around the world.
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Coast - Shorts - Tunnel to Dungeness
Historian Neil Oliver investigates the Victorian Channel Tunnel. How was it started over 120 years ago, and why it was never finished?
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Coast - Shorts - Unst
Neil Oliver meets the man who designed the first hydrogen car in Unst. Neil also visits the old Baltasound Herring Station. Dr Alice Roberts unearths a mysterious skeleton.
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Coast - Shorts - Venerable Bede
Neil Oliver explores the British coast. The area around the Tyne was the home of the monk the Venerable Bede. He was a scientist, historian, and geographer.
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Coast - Shorts - Wales - Severn Bore
Nicholas Crane explores the coast of South Wales, where the second-highest tidal range in the world has had a huge impact on lives for thousands of years.
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Coast - Shorts - Wales: The Gower, Rockpools and Dylan Thomas
Nicholas Crane explores Britain's coastline of the Gower Peninsula and Dylan Thomas's Laugharne.
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Coast - Shorts - Wales - The Smalls
Historian Neil Oliver is on the coast of South Wales and uncovers a real-life horror story on the Smalls Lighthouse.
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Coast - Shorts - Walton on the Naze
Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane discovers fossils and the early course of the Thames.
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Coast - Shorts - West Coast: Blackpool and Morecambe Bay
Nicholas Crane and the team visit the coastal areas of Blackpool and Morecambe Bay. They explore the dangerous sand flats of the bay under the watchful eye of an experienced guide.
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Coast - Shorts - Wexford To Killiney
Miranda Krestovnikoff goes to Wexford in search of the rare white-fronted geese, and Dick Strawbridge takes a ride on 'Brunel's Folly'.
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