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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43. Shorts: Gower to Anglesey

0.0Mar 5, 2012 · 60 min

Neil Oliver ventures out onto Worm's Head, a snake of land reaching out of the Gower Peninsula. Further up the coast he finds out about the quarrying heritage of Abereiddi and Porthgain. At Porth Oer Alice Roberts attempts to solve the riddle of the 'Singing Sands': what makes some very special British beaches whistle when you walk on them? Alice records the sounds of Porth Oer's beautiful beach to reveal its surprisingly musical secrets.