Coast
Coast is a TV show on BBC2. The Coast team take a fascinating journey around the shores of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today. The program has been available since 2022. A total of 22 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in May 2024.
Last broadcast:09/05/2024 at 19:00
Last episode
10:00
Coast
Neil Oliver films a scene from The Mayor of Casterbridge using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton made movies long before Hollywood.
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10:00
We find Britain's only colony of scorpions, and Nick Crane finds out why the sea is salty.
14:00
A group of sea anglers from Zimbabwe chance their hand in the rolling seas off the coast of Yorkshire. On their annual day trip from Whitby, they find themselves all at sea.
09:00
Nicholas Crane crosses the Solent to find out what's happened to England's largest island - the Isle of Wight.
14:00
The Coast team explores some of the most spectacular and scary sea cliffs in Britain.
09:00
A look around the coast of the British Isles. Mark Horton visits Rottingdean to look over Rudyard Kipling's garden wall.
April 2024
1:00:00
Coast explores stories that connect our great cities to the sea. Tessa Dunlop uncovers the astonishing story of how Hitler's bombers could have drowned London.
January 2024
18:00
Nick Crane heads to the Inner Hebrides in Scotland to attempt a daunting, long-coveted mountaineering challenge on the Isle of Skye - climbing the fearsome Cioch.
15:00
Nick Crane joins the fishermen who made a remarkable ropeway and explores the ingenious mechanism that operates the cliff lift at Saltburn-by-the-Sea.
August 2023
28:00
Coast ventures to the furthest flung reaches of the British Isles looking at harbours, which were once Britain's gateways to global adventure.
July 2023
14:00
Miranda Krestovnikoff joins volunteers in an exercise on dealing with sea-faring mammals that become beached.
June 2023
March 2023
15:00
From Dublin to Belfast, a look at how the sea has shaped the island of Ireland. Neil Oliver investigates the history of the area.
February 2023
59:00
Neil Oliver and Tessa Dunlop explore the UK's dynamic Irish Sea coastline. Tessa boards a Liverpool tugboat bringing in a giant container ship.
January 2023
59:00
Neil and Tessa present their guide to the Western Isles - a coastal cluster of islets that include the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Argyll and St Kilda.
September 2022
45:00
The journey continues along England's south west coast. Mark Horton has privileged access to the historic dockyards at Devonport.
July 2022
30:00
Neil Oliver goes to the Faroe Islands where he discovers how romance blossomed for British soldiers and Faroese women during Operation Valentine.