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Dover to Isle of Wight

Coast Series 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

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Sat 2 Aug 2008 16:00
蜜芽传媒 Two Wales (Analogue), Wales & England only

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Credits

Presenter Neil Oliver
Presenter Neil Oliver

Broadcasts

  • Wed 8 Nov 2006 02:00
    蜜芽传媒 One South, Wales & Scotland only
  • Tue 9 Oct 2007 20:00
    蜜芽传媒 Two except East, Wales & Yorkshire
  • Sat 26 Jul 2008 17:45
    蜜芽传媒 Two Wales (Analogue), Scotland, Northern Ireland (Analogue) & Northern Ireland only
  • Sat 2 Aug 2008 16:00
    蜜芽传媒 Two Wales (Analogue), Wales & England only

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