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A journey around the coast of the United Kingdom uncovering different stories.

The Coast team take a fascinating journey around the shores of the United Kingdom, uncovering stories that have made us the island nation we are today.

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Coast: Series 5 (Shortened Versions): Galway to Arranmore Island (45min)

21/12/2011

Galway to Arranmore Island (45min)

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Coast visits Ireland's north west coast, exploring Galway, Clifden and Clew Bay.

On the storm-battered Atlantic shore of Ireland's majestic north west coast, the programme takes in Galway, Clifden and Clew Bay.

Coast ventures to the storm-battered Atlantic shore of Ireland's majestic north west coast. 

Just five months before President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, he was riding in an open top limo through the crowded streets of Galway. Neil Oliver meets a photographer who covered JFK's motorcade on one of his first assignments and hears how this junior pressman managed to get up close and personal with the president and talk him into the perfect snap. 

Neil also discovers how the infamous 16th-century 'pirate queen' Grace O'Malley turned her coastal home into an impregnable fortress.

At Clifden, Dick Strawbridge leads a team of radio experts who try to recreate the 100-year-old technology that Marconi developed to send the first commercial wireless messages across the Atlantic, using steam generators powered by peat and a massive antenna, over half a mile long.

Miranda Krestovnikoff explores an odd little island where the mountain hare population is thriving. Normally the animals are found high in the hills, so why are these hares happy eating seaweed on the shore?

Alice Roberts unearths the remarkable remains of the oldest farm in the British Isles, a complex system of walls and houses laid out before Stonehenge. The ancient ruins of these Stone Age farmers were buried in the peat for over 5,000 years.

Local legend says that Clew Bay has 365 islands, one for each day of the year. Nick Crane investigates how this astonishingly beautiful and unusual landscape was created when Ireland was covered in ice.

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A journey around the British Isles and beyond. This series contains revised repeats.

A journey around the British Isles and beyond uncovering different stories. Episodes in this series have previously been broadcast in a different form

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