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The Channel

Episode number: 1

Overview: The team explore stories on both sides of the English Channel. Nick Crane visits Mont St Michel and Mark Horton looks at the origins of Britain's Ordnance Survey.

Secret Paths to Hidden Treasures

Episode number: 2

Overview: Nick Crane visits Cape Wrath, discovering where wolves once trod.

The Explorers' Coast

Episode number: 3

Overview: The team discover untold tales of explorers around our shores, and far beyond, including a stop-off down under in Australia.

Offshore

Episode number: 4

Overview: Coast embarks on its first adventure to North America as this explores British connections far offshore and surprising stories in the waters just off Britain's shoreline.

Sea and the City

Episode number: 5

Overview: Coast explores surprising stories that connect our great cities to the sea. Nick Crane pays tribute to the unsung and astonishing mega-port of Immingham, Tessa Dunlop uncovers the astonishing story of how Hitler's bombers could have drowned London and Ruth Goodman investigates the clandestine coastal sex trade that scandalised Victorian Britain.

Winter

Episode number: 6

Overview: The team explore what becomes of our coast in winter. Nick Crane visits Cornwall, the storm central of Britain's rugged coastline and Neil Oliver experiences the extraordinary Viking Fire Festival on Shetland.