Coast

- Season 7

(2012)

Nick Crane signs on as a deck-hand with a tall ship. He hopes to fulfill a childhood ambition by setting foot on tiny 'Fair Isle'. This is the most remote populated outpost in the British Isles and home to just 70 hardy souls. At Scapa Flow on Orkney, Neil Oliver explores the conspiracy theories surrounding the mysterious death of Lord Kitchener. Neil meets locals on Orkney who believe tales of suspicious events on the fateful night of the wreck. Historian Tessa Dunlop hopes to witness an extraordinary and uplifting sight that is special to the Western Isles of ...

Coast ventures to the furthest flung reaches of the British Isles to discover the most extreme locations, lifestyles and challenges of 'Life Beyond The Edge'. Nick Crane explores the exotic Isles of Scilly - 28 miles beyond Land's End, these are England's final full stop. To discover what life is like on this extreme edge, Nick visits the last house on the very tip of the most westerly inhabited isle. On precipitous slopes, beyond the edge of Devon, Coast newcomer and social historian Ruth Goodman follows in the footsteps of the remarkable Branscombe cliff farmers, ...

Before air travel, Britain's harbours were gateways to global adventure. There are more than a thousand ports, big and small, around the UK coastline, all with fascinating secret stories, many of them revealed for the first time in this episode.

Nick Crane tells the astonishing tale of the Great Storm of 1703. The Great Storm of 1703 was one of the most severe storms or natural disasters ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain. The storm came in from the southwest on 26 November 1703 (Julian calendar) or 7 December 1703 in the current calendar. Observers at the time recorded barometric readings as low as 973 millibars (measured by William Derham in south Essex), but it has been suggested that the storm may have deepened to 950 millibars over the Midlands.

This week, Nicholas attempts to brave the dangerous rapids off the coast of Anglesey, and learns about a tidal predictor in Liverpool. Miranda takes a look around Jersey's Seymour Tower to see the marine life revealed at low spring tide. Tessa compares the fashions in bathing suits favoured by different generation

Nicholas looks for leeches in the pebble-pools of Dungeness and finds out how the area was first formed. Hermione takes is in the air to view sand art in Jersey. Andy Torbet takes a look around one of the country's most dangerous beaches. Tessa is at a steelworks built on the shore of Port Talbot.