A documentary series hosted by Nicholas Crane. Follow him as he and a team of experts including Neil Oliver, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Mark Horton, travel around the coast of Britain to find out what makes the coasts of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland such an interesting place. From the White Cliffs of Dover to HMS Victory in Portsmouth, no place goes untouched from the Coast team.
Episode Info
Nick is on a mission in the Faroes to find all manner of bounty to take to a traditional feast. Mark undertakes a piece of experimental archaeology in Denmark in am effort to understand why our Stone Age ancestors fished at night.
Nick follows a very old tourist trail out of London and heads for Margate, via Southend on Sea. He learns why the beach has a biological effect on our stress levels. Miranda is on Shell Island in North Wales on a dusk-till-dawn camping safari to look at the pleasures that can be found in a night-time world of wildlife on our coast.