The BBC TWO series Coast, whose presenters include Bristol University experts, Dr Mark Horton and Dr Alice Roberts, and Bristol graduate, Miranda Krestovnikoff, has been nominated for two BAFTA awards for Best Factual Series and Interactivity.
Coast celebrates the unique character of the British Isles, featuring stories about the people, wildlife and events that make our coastal communities what they are. Through a mixture of expert comment, contemporary storytelling and computer-generated images, Coast tells a wealth of fascinating stories illustrating life as it is today, and as it was in the past. The first series was transmitted last summer. Filming on the second series begins this month.
Dr Mark Horton said: “In making the first series, we were incredibly privileged to be able to visit so much of our fantastic coastline and to share what we saw. Our coastal heritage has been forgotten about for so many years and we are very excited that the series has been recognised by two BAFTA nominations. I’m off to the Isles of Scilly this week to start filming for the second series.”
Steve Evanson, Coast series producer, said: “The last series only scratched the surface of the many amazing stories and extraordinary characters that our coastline has. We were constantly being asked by viewers to return to tell the untold stories of coastal areas that we’d already been to, and to go and visit the bits that we had missed, so that’s what we’re doing.
“The experts will be re-visiting old favourite parts of the coastline, but will also be exploring new places, including parts of the Shetland Isles, The Channel Islands and Ireland. We already have stories that we had wanted to cover in the last series but simply didn’t have time, and we have stories that viewers have contacted us about as a result of the last series, but we always want more. If people want to contact us with their stories about the coast, we’d love to hear from them.”
The new series of Coast will be on air later this year. The first series is currently being repeated on BBC TWO, Sundays, 6.00-7.00pm
The BAFTA ceremony will take place on Sunday 7 May 2006 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
The BAFTA-nominated series of Coast was presented by Bristol academics Dr Mark Horton, an archaeologist and presenter of Time Flyers, and Dr Alice Roberts a lecturer in anatomy and physical anthropologist along with Neil Oliver, a journalist and historian who co-presented Two Men in a Trench, Nicholas Crane, a writer, geographer and presenter of BBC TWO’s Map Man series and Miranda Krestovnikoff, a zoologist and presenter, who is also a Bristol University graduate.