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	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
Chronology
Related shows	Fossil Detectives
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 BBC Productions Birmingham.

The presenters, and their fields of interest, are:

Nicholas Crane (main presenter, series 1) — geography
Alice Roberts — anthropology and geology
Neil Oliver (main presenter, series 2 and 3) — archaeology and social history
Mark Horton — marine archaeology
Miranda Krestovnikoff — zoology

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.

1 Series 1: 2005
2 Series 2: 2006
3 Series 3: 2007
4 Series 4: 2009
5 Footnote
6 External links

Series 1: 2005

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

Series 2: 2006

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

Series 3: 2007

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

Series 4: 2009

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

Footnote

^ 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.