Let's go to the seaside! Travel round our gorgeous, varied coast, filmed throughout the 20th century from 1901 to 1978, in the latest programme from Britain on Film on Tour.
Take a nostalgic promenade to classic British holiday resorts including Weston-super-Mare, Morecambe and Skegness, a visit to Butlin's in Brighton and 1930s surfing in Newquay, while a 1947 information film cleverly undercuts travel cliches by showing how Dover, a traditional tourist town, is remaking itself after heavy bombings during WWII. Enjoy a lush travelogue around the coast via Claude Friese-Greene's wonderfully re-coloured footage, as eloquent as a painting.
Learn about lifeboats via the RNLI's brisk, engaging promotional film; the private life of seabirds in Julian Huxley's pioneering, Oscar-winning short film, a triumph of early environmentalism and explore the world of shipbuilding with the construction of the SS Olympic. All the while, in the background: the shimmering sea.