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Whitstable to the Isle of Wight

CoastSeries 4 (Shortened Versions)
Episode 18 of 23

In Dover, Alice Roberts relives the glamour days of the hovercraft crossing to France. What brought the cross-channel service to an untimely end?

In Dover, Alice Roberts relives the glamour days of the hovercraft crossing to France. She takes to the waves to learn how to fly a hovercraft, and discovers the science behind this British invention in an experiment with kitchen scales and a hair dryer. She also finds out what brought the cross-channel service to its untimely end.

9 minutes

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Christmas Eve 202117:35
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