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Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King.

Today: accompanying the writer Natasha Carthew on a visit to Downderry, the Cornish village where she grew up.

Not simply town or countryside, the coastline is a place apart – attracting lives and stories often overlooked.

In these ten programmes, Richard King travels around the UK coast to meet people who live and work there – a sequence of portraits rooted in distinct places, which piece together into an alternative portrait of the UK: an oblique image of the nation drawn from the coastal edge.

Natasha Carthew's memoir about growing up in Downderry is called Undercurrent (Hodder & Stoughton).