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Shorts: 37. Optical Telegraph
Documentary series exploring the coastline of the United Kingdom. No pigeons, no Morse code; yet in 1826, messages were sent from Holyhead to Liverpool in seconds.
Source: BBC 2
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Series 8 Reversions: Episode 15
On their journey around the coast of the United Kingdom, the team look at the secret life of the sea and how it shapes our cliffs.
17-01-2025
BBC 2
Coast
Series 8 Reversions: 5. All At Sea
The coast team are all at sea as they head offshore to explore surprising stories.
01-12-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 8 Reversions: Episode 12
The Coast team explores some of the most spectacular and scary sea cliffs in Britain.
30-11-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 9 - Offshore!
Coast embarks on its first adventure to North America, exploring British connections far offshore and surprising stories in the waters just off Britain's shoreline.
30-07-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 4 Reversions: 14. Brighton's Early Cinema
Neil Oliver becomes a silent movie director as he films a scene from The Mayor of Casterbridge using an antique camera, to reveal how pioneers in Brighton taught the world to ma ...
09-05-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 8 Reversions: 14. Rivers And Seas Collide 2
The Coast team visit the most dynamic and dramatic of our waterways to discover surprising stories that emerge where rivers and seas collide.
07-05-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 8 Reversions: Episode 19
The team are 'all at sea', as they head offshore to explore surprising stories.
06-05-2024
BBC 2
Coast
Series 4 Reversions - The Needles: Isle Of Wight
Nicholas Crane crosses the Solent to find out what's happened to England's largest island - the Isle of Wight.
02-05-2024
BBC 2
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Series 3 Reversions: Lowestoft Pier
Mark Horton visits Claremont Pier in Lowestoft and investigates the current perilous state of our seaside piers.
25-02-2016
BBC 2
Coast
Series 4 Reversions: 2. Norman Conquest
Mark Horton discovers how William the Conqueror taught the English the art of constructing castles, and why William looked to Normandy for the stone to build the Tower of London.
13-05-2015
BBC 2
Coast
Series 7 Reversions - The Riddle Of The Tides
Nick Crane embarks on a journey around Britain to experience our surrounding seas' tidal ebb and flow, and to explore 'The Riddle of the Tides'.
30-06-2018
BBC 2
Coast
Series 4 Reversions - Whitstable To The Isle Of Wight
In Dover, Alice Roberts re-lives the glamour days of the hovercraft crossing to France. What brought the cross-channel service to an untimely end?
20-01-2019
BBC 2
Coast
Shorts: 80. Lighthouse
Neil Oliver explores the extraordinary story of building Britain's most famous lighthouse on the perilous Eddystone rocks.
29-02-2016
BBC 2