Coast: The Secret Life of Sea Cliffs

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The team explores stories linked to sea cliffs around the UK, with Nick Crane visiting East and North Yorkshire coasts to join sea fishermen who have constructed a remarkable ropeway to make the perilous descent to fishing grounds, and examines an ingenious water-powered mechanism that operates the UK's oldest funicular railway at Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Tessa Dunlop meets a woman who witnessed the US Rangers practising for the D-Day landings in Normandy, while biologist Sarah Beynon hunts for dung beetles at Ramsey Island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Archaeologist Cassie Newland rummages through a cliff-top dump at Lyme Regis, Dorset, to look at artefacts of everyday life from the past hundred years, and adventurer Andy Torbet takes part in a night-time exercise with commando recruits.