Coast
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Coast

The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine; rebuilding the Titanic using computer images; the story behind the first Butlins holiday camp; and the birth of the Severn Bore. Discover the curious, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between the British and the seas.

22. Shorts: Anglesey

0.0Dec 11, 2011 · 60 min

On this Coast journey from Anglesey to Blackpool, Neil is joined by some familiar faces. Nick Crane is seeking out the story of a tiny harbour that played a big part in making a mountain of money at Parys Mountain, and Almwich Port which served it. Hermione Cockburn discovers how postcards from the past reveal a vital message for the future of our seaside in Rhyl, and the history of the Pleasure Beach at Blackpool. Miranda Krestovnikoff is on a sand dune safari in search of creatures great and small. Mark Horton is hunting for the remains of what was once the world's biggest private dock at the site of an early soap manufacture at Port Sunlight. Neil takes a journey of a different kind to the coast about a RAF jet. He also explores a shipwreck that is disappearing before his eyes and sees if he can trace Alice and her wonderland in Llandudno.