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Adrian Chiles, Mehreen Baig and a team of experts explore four spectacular coastlines linked by the Irish Sea and meet the people who call them home. In this episode, they visit the Merseyside coast.

With the UK鈥檚 identity as an island nation more important today than for the last 50 years, Adrian Chiles, Mehreen Baig and a team of experts explore four spectacular coastlines linked by the Irish Sea and meet the people who call them home.

In the first episode, they visit the Merseyside coast, stretching from Sefton Sands in the north to the Wirral in the south, via the great port city of Liverpool.

Adrian goes onboard to explore the nooks and crannies of what is the largest ocean-crossing liner in the world, the Queen Mary 2. Mehreen meanwhile is off to board a slightly smaller craft, run by one of the oldest lifeboat stations anywhere in the country, the Hoylake Hovercraft.

Other highlights of the show include historian Emma Dabiri on the hunt for a Viking ship that might just be buried under a Wirral pub car park, environmental scientist Tara Shine finding out how the people of Formby are protecting one of the country鈥檚 last thriving colonies of red squirrels, and engineer Danielle George visiting the Birkenhead Hydraulic Tower, a local titan of Victorian industry which was bombed in the Blitz and is now about to become the centrepiece of an industrial renaissance.

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 May 2024 08:00

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Music Played

  • Gerry and the Pacemakers

    Ferry Cross The Mersey

  • The Zutons

    Valerie

  • The Lightning Seeds

    The Life Of Riley

  • AC/DC

    Back In Black (Dj Mix)

  • The Coral

    Dreaming Of You

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Adrian Chiles
Presenter Mehreen Baig
Expert Emma Dabiri
Expert Tara Shine
Expert Danielle George
Production Manager Michelle O'Dowd
Executive Producer Paul Connolly
Series Producer Lucy Wedlock
Director John Martin

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