Coast

Nick Crane explores the exotic Isles of Scilly and joins the locals to attempt one of the most bizarre walks in Britain, as they try to wade on foot through the surging seas from island to island. Nick also visits the last house on the very tip of the most westerly inhabited isle. On precipitous ...

At the Cornish fishing harbour of Newlyn, Nick Crane re-lives an astonishing, unsung feat of heroic British seamanship when, in 1854, a tiny fishing boat set sail from Newlyn to Melbourne.

Nick Crane digs deep to discover what it is like to live on Britain's most unusual beach, the eerily beautiful, vast shingle spit at Dungeness in Kent. In Scotland, zoologist and ex-soldier Andy Torbet braves one of the most dangerous beaches in Britain. In Jersey, Hermione Cockburn joins the wor...