Coast (TV series)

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Coast
Genre Documentary
Created by David Stafford
Directed by Jonathan Barker
Oliver Clark
Paul Barnett
Presented by Alice Roberts
Neil Oliver
Mark Horton
Miranda Krestovnikoff
Nicholas Crane
Composer(s) Alan Parker
John Ashton Thomas
Country of origin Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 29
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 William Lyons
Gill Tierney
Emma De'ath
Producer(s) Steve Evanson
Jonathan Barker
Editor(s) Mike Bloore
Lauri White
Cinematography Julian Clinkard
Jeff Goodman
Jim Fyans
Running time 60 min (approx.)
Broadcast
Original channel BBC
Original run 22 July 2005 – 7 August 2007
External links
IMDb profile

Coast is a BBC documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. A second series started on 26 October 2006 and a third in spring 2007. It covers various subjects relating to both the natural and social history of the British coastline and also more recently that of Ireland. Series four and five have been commissioned and are due to be filmed later in 2008. The series is a collaboration between the Open University and the BBC.

The presenters, and their fields of interest, are:

In addition, Dick Strawbridge and Hermione Cockburn presented one item each in the second and third series.

All but one of the episodes in the first series ended with Nicholas Crane stating that in the British Isles, "Remember, you are never more than 72 miles from the sea!"[1]

Series 1 started at the white cliffs of Dover and progressed in a clockwise fashion around the coast of Great Britain (with a side trip to Northern Ireland). Series 2 again started at Dover but subsequent episodes have not followed series 1 in circumnavigating the UK coast, instead featuring various locations, including sections of the coast of the Republic of Ireland.

All three series have been released on Region 2 DVD by Contender Home Entertainment. Series 1 has been packaged in a box set with A Picture of Britain, and also in a box set with Series 2.

Extracts from the programme are often used as filler items on BBC Two, for example following a fifty-minute documentary programme such as The Natural World or Horizon, to allow the next full programme to begin on the hour. As the aerial shots from the Coast programmes are made in high-definition, they are also used in this way on BBC HD.

Contents

[edit] Series 1: 2005

  1. Dover to Exmouth: 5 June
  2. Exmouth to Bristol: 12 June
  3. Bristol to Cardigan Bay: 19 June
  4. Cardigan Bay to the Dee: 26 June
  5. Liverpool to Solway Firth: 3 July
  6. Northern Ireland: 10 July
  7. West Coast of Scotland and Western Isles: 17 July
  8. Cape Wrath to Orkney: 24 July
  9. John O'Groats to Berwick: 31 July
  10. Berwick to Whitby: 7 August
  11. Robins Hood's Bay to Hunstanton: 14 August
  12. Hunstanton to Dover: 21 August
  13. Highlights: 28 August

[edit] Series 2: 2006

  1. Dover to Isle of Wight: 29 October
  2. Holyhead to Liverpool: 5 November
  3. Arran to Gretna: 12 November
  4. Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly: 19 November
  5. Dublin to Derry: 26 November
  6. Newcastle to Hull: 3 December
  7. The Outer Hebrides: 10 December
  8. Felixstowe to Margate: 17 December

[edit] Series 3: 2007

  1. Shetland to Orkney: 27 May
  2. Bournemouth to Plymouth: 3 June
  3. Southport to Whitehaven (including the Isle of Man): 10 June
  4. Cardiff to St David's: 17 June
  5. Berwick-upon-Tweed to Aberdeen: 24 June
  6. Galway to Baltimore: 1 July
  7. King's Lynn to Felixstowe: 8 July
  8. Channel Islands to Dover: 15 July

[edit] Series 4: 2009

The BBC have confirmed the the Coast team are currently filming series four and it is set to be broadcasted in the Summer of 2009.

[edit] Footnote

  1. ^  This closing narration was part of a promotion for the tie-in BBC-sponsored walks and accompanying booklet, and was removed from many of the repeat showings.

[edit] External links


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