Coast

Latest Episodes

• Season 6 Episode 6: Sweden and the Baltic

  British connections to the Swedish coast. Nick Crane views a mountain range still growing at the rate of one centimetre per year - and discovers a similar phenomenon is also occurring in the Scottish Highlands. Alice Roberts reveals how the Second World War military effort almost ground to a halt until merchant seamen from Hull got past the German Navy to bring back Swedish ball bearings needed to keep British tanks and planes moving. Mark Horton visits the shipwreck of the Vasa, commissioned by the Swedish king 400 years ago to spearhead his navy, only to sink on its maiden voyage

• Season 6 Episode 5: Wales - Border to Border

  The team explores the Welsh coast. Nick Crane investigates evidence that a devastating tsunami hit 400 years ago, and finds out why scientists planning a trip to Mars find the local landscape a surprisingly good stand-in for the red planet's surface. Alice Roberts tests the claim that the world's first powered flight was made by a Welsh carpenter seven years before the Wright brothers and Dick Strawbridge reveals how, in 1947, a man on holiday to Anglesey came up with the design for a new car that would conquer the world - the Land Rover

• Season 6 Episode 4: Western Isles & Shetland

  The team goes island-hopping in Scotland, around the Western Isles and out to Shetland. Nick Crane has a close encounter with dolphins on Eriskay and gets invited to a golden wedding party - along with everyone else on the island - while Neil Oliver hears the tragic story of a 1918 shipwreck off the Isle of Lewis in which more than 200 servicemen returning home from the First World War were drowned. Hermione Cockburn tests the acoustic qualities of Fingal's Cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa and Miranda Krestovnikoff searches for the shy otters of Shetland