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- Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album, "Sea Shanties."
- The story of the "Canoe Man" John Darwin who faked his own death and tried to start a new life with a false identity.
- There exists an age-old rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fisherfolk, but harbormaster Nat Pomeroy holds a particular grudge - not just for the Bretons' incessant poaching, but for the harbor dues he loses in the process.
- A moving documentary made to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Penlee Lifeboat Disaster on 19 December 1981. The eight-man crew of the RNLB Solomon Browne, the lifeboat from the Penlee station in Mousehole, Cornwall, put to sea in an exceptionally severe gale to rescue the five-man crew of the MV Union Star, a cargo ship whose engines had failed two miles off the coast and which was in danger of being swept onto the rocks. Also on board the Union Star were the captain's wife and two step-daughters. A Royal Navy rescue helicopter attended but tragically the extreme wave conditions meant that they were unable to winch anyone off the ship. The Solomon Browne was able to rescue the captain's family and one of the crew from Union Star, but then radio contact with the Solomon Browne was lost. All the crew of the Solomon Browne and all the crew of the Union Star perished. The skipper of the Solomon Browne was posthumously awarded the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's gold medal and the remainder of his crew were posthumously awarded the bronze medal.
- The Humber lifeboat is the only permanently manned, full-time lifeboat in the country. Its coxswain, BRIAN BEVAN is one of the most decorated men in the RNLI's service. He, his six crew and their families live at the end of Spurn Point, a strip of land curving into the Humber. This series of six programmes looks at the life of the men who man Britain's busiest lifeboat. On average it is called out once a week. It will launch in any wind, at night, whatever the sea. But the weather the crew dread most is fog.
- The story of a year in the life of the Salcombe lifeboat crew, the ordinary men and one woman with the extraordinary job of putting out to sea when other sailors head for the safety of home. Based in the small town in South Devon for a full year, the Central Television team captured dramas at sea and on land which made this one of the most eventful twelve months for the people of Salcombe and for the film crew who lived and worked with them.
- A 15-year-old girl plunges 200ft down a cliff face while taking selfies with her best pal. A Royal Navy winchman repeatedly risks his own life to rescue six fishermen in horrendous seas.
- A young boy must find help after his grandfather falls on a rocky cliff face, a road racing cyclist's career is threatened when he is hit by a car, and a motorbike rider hits black ice.
- Kate walks a 13-mile section of the Cleveland Way to Whitby. Along the way she samples the fruit that lines the path, visits the fishing village of Staithes, joins a "man-overboard" exercise on a lifeboat and learns about Whitby Jet.
- A father out surfing is found unconscious in the sea, fellow surfers battle to pull him to shore and give him CPR as lifeboat and coastguard services join the rescue. A father is on the school run when a huge tree crashes onto his car.
- In the port of Rye, Michael hears how a generation of lifeboatmen lost their lives in a 1928 rescue attempt and also learns about coastal defences. He travels across Romney Marsh to Dungeness and examines some curious concrete structures.
- Susan's travels bring her to the world's largest pleasure pier, but to reach its attractions, she must board its iconic narrow gauge railway. Susan creates her own ice cream sundae and trains with the RNLI lifeboat crew.
- Bernard is gaining weight and has doubts between doing sports or starting a diet. One day while running, he is chased by some dogs and realizes sports can help him more than a diet.
- A group of friends are pulled out to sea in a freak rip current. A lifeguard and the coastguard are scrambled as they battle to stay afloat and a mum is driving home from work when a huge sheet of ice crashes into her windscreen.
- A seven-year-old girl dials 999 from the back seat of her mother's car as Mum is desperately struggling to breathe. A major rope rescue is launched when a climber plunges down a rocky cliff face, severely injuring his leg.
- Rob Bell explores the spiritual home of lifesaving - the Longstone lighthouse off the coast of Northumberland, scene of a much discussed rescue attempt by the Victorian lighthouse keeper's daughter, Grace Darling.
- 1994– Not Rated7.8 (7)TV Episode
- Illegally smuggled into the UK and forced to work in Morecambe as cockle-pickers, 23 Chinese people tragically drowned to death one devastating day in 2004.
- Michael journeys from Newcastle up the north east coast to Lindisfarne and finds out about the world's earliest swing bridge and its inventor, Sir William Armstrong.