BBC - Coast Series 9 (2014) Part 2 Secret Paths to Hidden Treasures

Coast: Series 9

Coast continues to uncover the secrets of our shores, through untold tales of explorers from as far apart as Cornwall and Australia; it reveals little-known gems, including a coastal walk that takes in the history of Britain; investigates the clandestine sex trade that scandalised Victorian Britain and decimated the Royal Navy; discovers how Greenwich became the global centre of sea navigation and reveals what becomes of our coast in winter. Coast also crosses the Atlantic to find out why Nova Scotia, in Canada, appealed to its Scottish settlers, and it ventures to the French channel coast to unearth its connection with the birth of Britain's Ordnance Survey maps.

Part 2: Secret Paths to Hidden Treasures

The team explores secret paths around the shores of the British Isles. Nick Crane heads to Cape Wrath - the most north-westerly point of the UK mainland - to visit his favourite beach, and learns how the area was once home to Britain's smallest school and why this wild landscape had to be abandoned. Ruth Goodman reveals how a Victorian craze for collecting ferns drove genteel women to extraordinary lengths on the perilous paths along the sea cliffs of Devon, while Adam McIntosh follows a secret underwater path off the isle of Iona in search of green marble.

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