Coast And Beyond Series 4 -8- Rosyth to Hull

On the final triumphant leg of his latest journey Neil Oliver visits the bustling port of Rosyth to explore the staggering scale of Britains global sea trade Its now worth 340 billion pounds a year yet a pair of jeans can travel from China for just 30p. Neil also recreates a legendary lifeboat drag from nearly a 150 years ago at the village of Cullercoats. Its claimed the women of the village dragged a heavy wooden lifeboat for miles over a headland to save a stricken ship in a mighty storm. Neil challenges the local lassies of today to live up to the reputation of their great grannies.Miranda Krestovnikoff is the first Coast presenter to manage to land on the Bass Rock a stunning seabird paradise described by Sir David Attenborough as one of the wildlife wonders of the world but one which is made all too inaccessible by a combination of tide and weather. Miranda joins a team trying to film the underwater action of diving gannets which hit the water at up to 60mph.Mark Horton is on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne reliving the first Viking raid on our shores in June 793 AD. He discovers how those marauding Norsemen galvanised the warring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to come together and form the English nation. Mark also goes in search of the remains of the Town That Never Was a grand Edwardian seaside resort intended to rival Whitby and Scarborough. Construction began in a blaze of publicity in the dramatic coastal setting of Ravenscar - but why was the town never finished? ... >>

Channel: veehd Video Length: 58m 55s Date Found: Sat, Nov 06 2010 5:59 AM Category: Educational Date Produced: View Count: 0