Coast series four: Watch, listen, learn...

Having come to the UK for an eight month holiday (home swaps!) from Perth in West Australia we have found the series 1, 2 and 3 (bought online in Oz) to be really fascinating, and useful, and it was great to see series 4 straight off the production line so to speak! So much information is contained in all programmes so we watch them over and over.... well done to all the team. Feel you don't really need to venture to other countries though as there must be so much more material left to uncover along the UK coast.

Welcome back to "Coast" - one of the best programmes on television.

I do, however, have one 'small' complaint about the current series.

Why on earth did you decide to choose a different arrangement of that marvellous theme tune?

Go back to the original please!!

Please post me the free booklet mentioned on yesterdays broadcast.
Thank you.
I look forward eagerly to this programme.
I hope ther will be many more.
J.Jory

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Tonights programme covering the Scottish Isles and especially The Faroes too was outstandingly informative. Indeed the landscape of the Faroes I found quite astonishing. This whole series is of the highest standard and what television should be about. Please may we continue to see a lot more - both of this series and its like. Well done to all.

I have watched now 3 parts of your fantastic series Coast. My wife and me, we really enjoyed it. On our new LCD-tv in digital quallity, the pictures were beautiful. We already made plans to visit Cornwall next year.
Ton van Hoevelaak, Hummelo, Holland

many thanks BBC for another top notch series in the 4th long may it continue ! also the 4th series is due to be released on my BIRTHDAY guess what im getting off my wife ??????thanks again guys n girls of the BBC

'Coast' is a really quality TV programme. It is so interesting & varied that it keeps ones attention the whole time & is so informative. Well done ! Lots more please !

Typical OU. Great second episode. A programme that factually informs in all disciplines from arts, environment, science. Great programme, great team and rivetingly produced. And as ciderboyafc says welome back.

Proud to say BSc hons (Open) Technology

Hi,

I am the author of a book series British Built Aircraft (BBA) which provides a five volume regional survey of all aircraft construction in Britain. You might be surprised to know that I had come across Magnus Volk in that context. Copied below is a short extract from BBA Vol 3:

Brighton & Hove

In 1912, there was a seaplane hangar (Magnus Volk’s seaplane hangar) opposite Paston Place Station, Brighton. One aircraft to use the hangar was the Radley-England Waterplane. In Spring 1914, Frank Fowler (founder of the Eastbourne Aviation Company) operated EAC built Farman seaplanes from ‘Volk’s Waterplane Station’. The facilities consisted of a large canvas hangar erected on the beach.

A contemporary advert read:

Brighton: New Hydro-Aeroplane Station
We shall have available for the coming season A large hangar with slipway, on the same site used with great success last season:
Aviators can have free use of same should they wish to pay Brighton a ‘Flying Visit’.
We are also open to negotiation for Exhibition and Passenger-Carrying flights.
Address: VOLK’S ELECTRIC RAILWAY

The programme also missed the fact that the Butlins at Bognor used to be the site of the Norman Thomson Flight Company Ltd aircraft factory, building (inter alia) the 'Bognor Bloater'!

I have similar detail for sites across the whole country - many of them on the coast...

Welcome back! What a great 1st episode...