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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40. Shorts: Harlech and Criccieth

0.0Dec 2, 2011 · 60 min

The imposing castle at Harlech is one of the best preserved in Britain but Mark Horton discovers how it would have looked radically different and even more terrifying when it was built to subdue the Welsh in the 13th century. Across the bay, Neil Oliver is at the Welsh's rival castle at Criccieth.