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A taste of Coast's journey along the stunning sights of England’s South West coast from Dorset, through Devon, and onwards to the tip of Cornwall. Neil Oliver performs the lead role in an extract from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ on the stage of a remarkable coastal amphitheatre near Land’s End. Nick Crane ventures out into the infamous ‘Portland Tidal Race’ to see how this fearsome tidal surge creates some of the roughest waters in Britain surprisingly close to the tourist beaches and Georgian splendour of Weymouth. Miranda Krestovnikoff goes in search of a family of White-Beaked Dolphins, these elusive cold water creatures are rarely seen off the English Coast, so why is this group so far south?
Mark Horton has privileged access to the historic dockyards at Devonport to see where the wooden ships of Nelson’s Navy were built, Mark reveals how the steel fleet of the modern Royal Navy still relies on the age old skills of wood working. Alice Roberts is following her nose to discover what gives the sea its distinctive smell; it’s the unmistakable whiff we associate with holidays, but for many animals it’s a smell that spells the difference between life and death.