Coast: Offshore!

SYNOPSIS

Nick Crane crosses the Atlantic to Nova Scotia to investigate why there was a flood of Scottish settlers to Canada two hundred years ago, while an archaeological dig also reveals the 400-year-old secrets of the first English colony in the North American country. Tessa Dunlop visits a radio network outside Rugby to explore a story from the Falklands War, while Miranda Krestovnikoff is in the Outer Hebrides to go in search of Britain's oldest puffin. Naval historian Nick Hewitt examines the history of the Nab Towers, which was positioned in the Straits of Dover to protect merchant shipping from German U-boats during the First World War.

Host: Nick Crane, Tessa Dunlop