Coast

Latest Episodes

• Season 4 Episode 8: Rosyth to Hull

  In Tyneside, Neil Oliver challenges the women of Cullercoats to drag a heavy lifeboat over miles of headland in an effort to re-create a rescue carried out by their ancestors nearly 150 years previously. Mark Horton visits Lindisfarne to relive the first Viking raid on British shores, and Dick Strawbridge meets riveters who were responsible for building some of the North East's characteristic cargo ships

• Season 4 Episode 7: Lillian to Svalbard

  The team explores Britain's connection to the fjords of Norway, with Neil Oliver discovering how a raid on the Nazi-occupied Lofoten Island turned the tide of World War Two in the favour of the Allied forces. Nick Crane meets shipwrights who build boats using the centuries-old methods of the Viking forefathers, and Jason Roberts braves the frozen landscapes of Svalbard in search of the perfect picture of a wild polar bear

• Season 4 Episode 6: Inner Hebrides to Faroe Islands

  The team explores the cluster of islands located in the wild Atlantic, with Neil Oliver meeting Tom McLean, who lived for a month on Rockall, a tiny outcrop of volcanic rock 230 miles west of the Outer Hebrides. Plus, newcomer Kate Rew searches for the bone-eating snot-flower worm, Alice Roberts explores the remnants of a chemical-making industry on the Isle of Skye, and Nick Crane uses an obscure branch of mathematics to determine the length of the nation's coastline