The Channel

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1. From Landscape to Seascape

Series examining how the English Channel has affected British identity through time.

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The Channel: Series 1: 4. The Shared Sea

4. The Shared Sea

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The fluid frontier.  Where in the Channel does England end and France begins?

Historian Dr Renaud Morieux examines where in the Channel, England ends and France begins. What was its influence? From 2018.

Where in the Channel does England end and France begins?

Dr Renaud Morieux, senior lecturer in History at Cambridge University, examines how that understanding has influenced peace, conflict and trade. 

And in the company of Dr Susan Foister, Deputy Director of the National Gallery, he reflects on what Turner's painting of Calais Pier reveals of the Channel at the time.

The Channel is a reflection on the stretch of water that both separates us from and connects us to Europe. 

The series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Marya Burges

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2018.

The Channel: Series 1

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