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.

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34. Shorts: Dover to Selsey Bill

0.0Oct 16, 2010 · 60 min

Kate Rew, an outdoor swimmer, explains why swimming along the coast is the perfect antidote to the stress of modern life. Neil Oliver explains how the Kent marshes were formed and how local frogs were thought to have been brought over from France in the 1930s, but are in truth Hungarian Marsh frogs. Miranda Krestovnikoff discovers how the Hastings fishermen cope without a harbour by launching their boats off the beach.