Coast is a BBC documentary series first broadcast on BBC Two in 2005. A second series started on Thursday 26 October 2006 and a third is to be broadcast in Spring 2007. It covers various subjects relating to both the natural and social history of the British coastline. The series is a collaboration between the Open University and the BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... A television documentary is a documentary or a series of documentaries that are meant to be broadcasted on television. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Affiliations Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Website http://www. ...

The presenters, and their fields of interest, are:

• Nicholas Crane (main presenter, series 1) - geography
• Alice Roberts - anthropology and geology
• Neil Oliver (main presenter, series 2 and 3) - archaeology and social history
• Mark Horton - marine archaeology
• Miranda Krestovnikoff - zoology

In addition, Dick Strawbridge and Hermione Cockburn presented one item each in the second series and will return again in Series 3. Nicholas Crane is a British explorer, writer and broadcaster. ... Dr Alice May Roberts MB BCh BSc ILTM is a clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist teaching at Bristol University[1]. Dr Roberts is best known to the public for her appearances as an expert contributor on human anatomy to various television programs, including Time Team, and its spin-off show Extreme... Neil Oliver (born Ayr, 1971) is a Scottish archaeologist, historian, author and broadcaster extraordinaire, known for his entrancing voice and flowing black hair. ... Image:300horton. ... Miranda Krestovnikoff (born 1973 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a television presenter specialising in Natural History and Archaeological programmes. ... Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, MBE is a British engineer and television presenter. ... Hermione Cockburn (born 1973) is a regular presenter on both television and radio in the UK, specialising in scientific and educational programmes. ...

All but one of the episodes in the first series ended with Nicholas Crane stating that in the British Isles, "remember, you are never more than 72 miles from the sea!".^[1]

Series 1 started at the white cliffs of Dover and progressed in a clockwise fashion around the coast of Great Britain (with a side trip to Northern Ireland). Series 2 again started at Dover but subsequent episodes have not followed series 1 in circumnavigating the UK coast, instead choosing seemingly random areas for each episode, including sections of the coast of the Republic of Ireland. , Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port/town. ... Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, covering 5,459 square miles (14,139 km², about a sixth of the islands total area). ... , Arms of Dover Borough Council This article is about the English port/town. ...

Both series have been released on Region 2 DVD by Contender Home Entertainment. Series 1 has also been packaged in a box set with A Picture of Britain. A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is one or more musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related things that are contained in a box. ... A Picture of Britain is a BBC television series presented by David Dimbleby, which describes the British landscape and the art which it has inspired. ...

Extracts from the programme are often used as filler items on BBC Two, for example following a fifty-minute documentary programme such as The Natural World or Horizon, to allow the next full programme to begin on the hour.

Series 1

1. Dover to Exmouth
2. Exmouth to Bristol
3. Bristol to Cardigan Bay
4. Cardigan Bay to the Dee
5. Liverpool to Solway Firth
6. Northern Ireland
7. West Coast of Scotland and Western Isles
8. Cape Wrath to Orkney
9. John O'Groats to Berwick
10. Berwick to Whitby
11. Robins Hood's Bay to The Wash
12. The Wash to Dover
13. Highligts

Series 2

1. Dover to Isle of Wight
2. Holyhead to Liverpool
3. Arran to Gretna
4. Cornwall & the Isles of Scilly
5. Dublin to Derry
6. Newcastle to Hull
7. The Outer Hebrides
8. Felixstowe to Margate
9. Highligts

Series 3

1. Shetland to Orkney
2. Bournemouth to Plymouth
3. Southport to Whitehaven (including the Isle of Man)
4. Cardiff to St David's
5. Berwick-upon-Tweed to Aberdeen
6. Galway to Baltimore
7. King's Lynn to Felixstowe
8. Channel Islands to Dover
9. Highlights

Footnote

1. ^  This closing narration was part of a promotion for the tie-in BBC-sponsored walks and accompanying booklet, and was removed from many of the repeat showings.

External links

• Official website
• Open2.net - Coast
• Coast - IMDB