Coast - Shorts - East Coast - Smugglers, Alum and Scarborough Bay

Series exploring Britain's coastline. Nicholas Crane travels to the pretty seaside town of Robin Hood's Bay and learns the history behind the smuggling trade in the 1700s. Meanwhile, Alice Roberts studies the cloth and wool trade and the role alum and the Ravenscar clifftop factory played in saving the cloth industry. Neil Oliver visits Scarborough to find out why it has always been and remains today a popular tourist destination.