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Anglesey to Blackpool

CoastSeries 4
Episode 5 of 8

At RAF Valley in Anglesey, Neil Oliver takes to the sky with an instructor from the RAF's world-famous 'pilot factory'.

At RAF Valley in Anglesey, Neil Oliver discovers if he has what it takes to fly fast fighter jets as he takes to the sky with an instructor from the RAF's world-famous 'pilot factory'. Neil also explores Llandudno's curious claim to fame as the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

Armed with ultra-sensitive microphones and specialist cameras, Miranda Krestovnikoff goes to Sefton sands for a beach safari in search of the creatures, great and small, that roam wild on England's largest sand dunes.

Nick Crane unearths the incredible story of a monstrous hole in the ground at Parys Mountain on Anglesey, once the site of the world's largest copper mine which dominated global trade in the metal 200 years ago.

Victorian postcards reveal Rhyl's glory years to Hermione Cockburn, and on a visit to Blackpool's Pleasure Beach, she discovers the secrets of success for our seaside towns.

Mark Horton travels to 'the village that soap built' - Port Sunlight in Merseyside, where he investigates why the Lever Brothers had to build the world's largest private port to import the vital ingredient for their Sunlight Soap.

59 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Mar 201118:00
BBC HD

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Credits

PresenterNeil Oliver
PresenterMiranda Krestovnikoff
PresenterNicholas Crane
PresenterHermione Cockburn
PresenterMark Horton
Executive ProducerWilliam Lyons
ProducerSteve Evanson

Broadcasts

  • Tue 11 Aug 200920:00
    BBC HD & BBC Two except Yorkshire
  • Wed 19 Aug 200900:50
    BBC One except Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
  • Wed 26 Aug 200900:15
    BBC One Northern Ireland
  • Wed 28 Oct 200919:00
    BBC Two England & Wales only
  • Mon 28 Dec 200911:50
    BBC Two except Yorkshire
  • Sun 16 May 201017:00
    BBC HD
  • Thu 30 Dec 201019:00
    BBC Two England
  • Fri 7 Jan 201121:30
    BBC Two Wales
  • Sat 15 Jan 201115:30
    BBC Two Northern Ireland
  • Wed 23 Mar 201118:00
    BBC HD

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