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Britain By Beach

Anita Rani reveals the secret history of Britain's beaches. In Cornwall, she explores smuggling and buried Victorian marvels. She also tries belly boarding and fishing for lobster. (S2 Ep1)

September 2022
Along the stunning Welsh coastline, Anita Rani explores the legends of Harlech Castle, the last invasion of Britain, the ancient coracle, and a leisure revolution in Rhyl. (S2 Ep4)
In Lancashire, Anita Rani revisits the glorious coastline of her childhood, from Blackpool's Pleasure Beach to ice cream in Morecambe and history in beautiful Lytham St Annes. (S2 Ep3)
Anita Rani reveals some of the secrets of coastal Kent, from Martello towers and a forgotten hero of Dunkirk, to James Bond and the master painter JMW Turner's Margate love affair. (S2 Ep2)
Anita Rani reveals the secret history of Britain's beaches. In Cornwall, she explores smuggling and buried Victorian marvels. She also tries belly boarding and fishing for lobster. (S2 Ep1)
South Wales: Anita Rani visits beautiful, remote beaches and learns of a historic land speed record, the poems of Dylan Thomas, and the tale of a daring escape by a young Tudor king. (Ep2)
Devon: In the quintessential beach county of ice cream and cream teas, Anita Rani encounters a haunted village, a wartime disaster, and a luxury hotel loved by Agatha Christie. (Ep1)
Anita Rani reveals the remarkable secret history of Yorkshire and Northumberland's beaches and windswept coasts, from a shipwreck in Whitby to Vikings on Lindisfarne. (Ep4/4)
Eastern Scotland: The remarkable secret history of Scotland's east coast beaches, from smuggled crown jewels to the Arbroath smokie and wartime fortifications in the Firth of Forth. (Ep3)
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