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Dover to Isle of Wight

CoastSeries 2
Episode 1 of 8

Neil Oliver presents a journey around the coast of the UK. This episode follows the dramatic chalk landscape from Dover to the Isle of Wight.

A journey around the coast of the UK. Historian Neil Oliver discovers the history of the Victorian Channel tunnel and why it was never finished. Anthropologist Alice Roberts is on the Isle of Wight to uncover Britain's space rocket testing site. Alice meets the men who helped launch Britain's first satellite - can they find it up in space 35 years later?

Geographer Nicholas Crane hangs off the cliffs near Beachy Head to discover how the chalk coast was made, and why it's disappearing fast.

56 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Aug 200816:00
BBC Two Wales (Analogue), Wales & England only

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Credits

PresenterNeil Oliver
PresenterNeil Oliver

Broadcasts

  • Wed 8 Nov 200602:00
    BBC One South, Wales & Scotland only
  • Tue 9 Oct 200720:00
    BBC Two except East, Wales & Yorkshire
  • Sat 26 Jul 200817:45
    BBC Two Wales (Analogue), Scotland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Sat 2 Aug 200816:00
    BBC Two Wales (Analogue), Wales & England only

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