Coast Season 5 Episode 8 Hull To London

TV Show: Coast

Aired on: 8:00 PM on September 1st, 2010 – Wednesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 5 Episode 8

Episode Name: Hull To London

Preview:

The series concludes with a 200 mile journey down England’s east coast, from the river Humber to the river Thames and into the heart of the capital.Neil Oliver visits the birth place of his seafaring hero Lord Nelson, exploring the Norfolk shoreline that inspired young Nelson to greatness and the curious ship-shaped pond he dug at the family home while not fighting the French. Neil visits Sutton Hoo, where in 1939 an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was unearthed to become one of Britain’s most important archaeological sites. The ornate find of a warrior’s helmet gave a face to the Germanic tribes that founded England.
On the shingle bank at Orford Ness, Alice Roberts leads a team trying to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work. Alice visits Bawdsey Manor, where the first British radar station was built, to meet two women posted there during the war to operate the early warning system. It was ‘hush-hush’ work that they kept completely secret – even from close family.Off the Norfolk coast Nick Crane explores the remarkable lost world of ‘Doggerland’, the home of the early Britons, lost to sea some 10,000 years ago as sea levels rose after the last Ice Age.
Miranda Krestovnikoff wades out in the mud of ‘The Wash’, a vast tidal feeding ground for migrating birds. Miranda discovers the ingenious strategies that different birds use to fatten themselves up on the seafood of the Wash.Enthusiasts spend fortunes to restore the wrecks of sailing boats which used to work around the Thames Estuary. To investigate the appeal of the glorious Essex Fishing Smacks, Mark Horton joins a crew on competition day to discover how the elegant yacht-like design is perfectly adapted to dredging for oysters.

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Coast Season 5 Episode 7 Denmark

TV Show: Coast

Aired on: 8:00 PM on August 25th, 2010 – Wednesday

Channel: BBC TWO Channel

Episode Details: Season 5 Episode 7

Episode Name: Denmark

Preview:

Coast visits brand new territory to explore the strong bonds we have with our neighbours across the North Sea in Denmark. The Danes top the polls as the happiest people on Earth and Neil Oliver investigates the uniquely Danish concept of ‘hygge’, a cosy comfortable feeling almost impossible to translate into any other language. From palatial beach houses that are off limits to foreigners, to Denmark’s oldest seaside resort, Neil discovers how their coast keeps the Danes happy.Nick Crane examines how the Danish made big business out of selling bacon to Britain. Following defeats in the Napoleonic wars and the loss of lucrative farming land the Danes put poor soil to work rearing pork, but why did the British gobble it up?Alice Roberts sets sail in a full-scale replica of a Viking longship to see how they gave the Norsemen the edge over the English in battle. Alice also discovers how over 8,000 Danish Jews managed to escape the Nazi concentration camps in a flotilla of fishing boats that braved hostile waters to reach the safety of neutral Sweden.
Miranda Krestovnikoff meets some unflappable red deer, who make themselves at home on a windswept shoreline, despite the fact that they share the sand dunes with tanks from the Danish army.On Heligoland Mark Horton reveals how in 1947 Britain’s Royal Navy blew this tiny island apart in the largest non-nuclear explosion the world had ever seen. It’s all the more remarkable because Heligoland is an island that used to be British.Dick Strawbridge gets access to the construction of one of the world’s largest offshore wind farms, learning how wind turbine towers are built 10 miles out to sea using technology that may soon transform the British coastline, as offshore wind farms become an increasingly familiar sight.

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