Programme 1: The South Coast - Dover to Exmouth
This stretch of coast is Britain's frontline, littered with the remnants of war, but also home to the world renowned Jurassic Coast. Neil Oliver travels to Alderney in the Channel Islands to meet a survivor of the only Nazi concentration camp ever to be built on allied soil. Nick Crane - along with a group of OU scientists - investigates the once top secret constructions at the front line of Britain's air defences - giant concrete sound mirrors. While Miranda Krestovnikoff goes diving to film a host of exotic species only 100m offshore.

Programme 2: South West England - Exmouth to Bristol
The South West peninsula of England bears the brunt of our worst storms. Dr Alice Roberts investigates how human greed led to an entire village being washed into the sea; Nick unearths the little-known history of the slave trade in Plymouth, while Neil and Mark try to wreck a ship using nothing but an 18th century lantern; and Miranda comes face to face with the UK's only native shark - the Porbeagle.

Programme 3: South Wales - Bristol to Cardigan Bay
The south coast of Wales has the second highest tidal range in the world; it's that tidal surge that brings with it the Severn Bore, one of the world's most extraordinary natural phenomena. Nick explains how it's created, and follows it as it heads up river. Neil explores the history of Cardiff coal, and visits the exchange where the world's first £1 million cheque was signed, as well as heading offshore to the most remote lighthouse in the UK. While Alice gets acquainted with the Red Lady of Paviland - Britain's first modern human who lived on this shore 26,000 years ago.

Programme 4: North Wales - Aberystwyth to the Dee
Neil meets Twm Elias who tells the story of a Welsh Atlantis lost beneath the waves. Miranda goes in search of the giant leatherback turtles which travel each year from the Caribbean to Cardigan Bay. Alice descends into the underground caves of the Great Orme, a bronze age civilisation which sits side by side with the holiday resort of Llandudno. Nick canoes some of the most treacherous waters in Britain, the Menai Straits, to tell the story of two great bridges and the engineers who built them.

Programme 5: North West England - Liverpool to the Solway Firth
Alice investigates 5,000 year old footprints preserved in mud, while Nick takes to the water in a 100 year old lifeboat to investigate our worst lifeboat disaster. Mark travels to Maryport in the tracks of the Roman conquest of Northern England and Neil ventures onto the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay accompanied by the Queen's Guide, a sand pilot who can read the bay like a book. All this - and Blackpool too!

Programme 6: Northern Ireland - The Northern Ireland Coast
Nick explores how the building of the spectacular Antrim coast road mirrors the troubled history of the country. Neil uses computer imagery to rebuild the Titanic on its original Harland and Wolff slipway, and Alice heads to the Giants Causeway - a UNESCO world heritage site since 1968, now under pressure from developers. Mark, meanwhile, explores the wreck of a Spanish Armada treasure ship that foundered on these shores.

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