Coast

Coast ventures to the farthest-flung reaches of the British Isles to explore `Life Beyond the Edge'. Mark Horton is in Liverpool to meet an old friend. Brunel's famous ship the Great Eastern now lies beneath the mud, but Mark is resurrecting the story of her greatest triumph - how she conquered the Atlantic by connecting Britain's edge to America with 2,000 miles of telegraph wire.

Category

Documentary / Environment / History / Nature / Travel

Original air date

24/08/2013