The Channel

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From Landscape To Seascape

20180326

20221114 (BBC7)
20221115 (BBC7)

Professor Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London goes back 450,000 years, to a time when our ancestors could walk across a rock ridge from the chalk cliffs near Calais to our own at Dover.

At the British Museum, Nick Ashton, Curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections, shows him artefacts that provide evidence they did.

This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell.

Producer: Marya Burgess.

The view from the famous White Cliffs through millennia.

Literary Passages

20180327

20221115 (BBC7)
20221116 (BBC7)

What do the writings of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Julian Barnes reveals about our relationship with the Channel?

Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Dr Cindy Sughrue OBE, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, examine the artefacts that reveal the novelists' extreme familiarity with the Dover Strait.

This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Marya Burgess

From Dickens to Barnes, Professor Dominic Rainsford explores the literature of the Channel

Cross-channel Journal

20180328

20221116 (BBC7)
20221117 (BBC7)

Writer Alba Arikha, born in Paris and living in London, reflects on her own experiences of crossing the Channel and compares them with the accounts of others.

This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Beaty Rubens

Memories of crossing the Channel in childhood, and how the means have changed over time.

The Shared Sea

20180329

20221117 (BBC7)
20221118 (BBC7)

Where in the Channel does England end and France begins?

Dr Renaud Morieux, senior lecturer in History at Cambridge University, examines how that understanding has influenced peace, conflict and trade.

And in the company of Dr Susan Foister, Deputy Director of the National Gallery, he reflects on what Turner's painting of Calais Pier reveals of the Channel at the time.

The series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Marya Burges

The fluid frontier. Where in the Channel does England end and France begins?

Making The Crossing

20180330

20221118 (BBC7)
20221119 (BBC7)

Christine Finn covered The Channel for local press and TV through the 1980s-90s

Now she examines recent developments in our relationship with the Strait as our portal to Europe - as she meets those making the crossing on the DFDS Cote des Dunes.

This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so.

Music composed by Phil Channell

Producer: Marya Burgess

From the Beaujolais Run to the building of the Tunnel, a journalist's tales.

Episodes

Series	Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Comments
01	01	From Landscape To Seascape	20180326	20221114 (BBC7) 20221115 (BBC7)	Professor Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College London goes back 450,000 years, to a time when our ancestors could walk across a rock ridge from the chalk cliffs near Calais to our own at Dover. At the British Museum, Nick Ashton, Curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections, shows him artefacts that provide evidence they did. This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so. Music composed by Phil Channell. Producer: Marya Burgess. The view from the famous White Cliffs through millennia.
01	02	Literary Passages	20180327	20221115 (BBC7) 20221116 (BBC7)	What do the writings of Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo and Julian Barnes reveals about our relationship with the Channel? Dominic Rainsford, Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University, Denmark, and Dr Cindy Sughrue OBE, Director of the Charles Dickens Museum, examine the artefacts that reveal the novelists' extreme familiarity with the Dover Strait. This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so. Music composed by Phil Channell Producer: Marya Burgess From Dickens to Barnes, Professor Dominic Rainsford explores the literature of the Channel
01	03	Cross-channel Journal	20180328	20221116 (BBC7) 20221117 (BBC7)	Writer Alba Arikha, born in Paris and living in London, reflects on her own experiences of crossing the Channel and compares them with the accounts of others. This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so. Music composed by Phil Channell Producer: Beaty Rubens Memories of crossing the Channel in childhood, and how the means have changed over time.
01	04	The Shared Sea	20180329	20221117 (BBC7) 20221118 (BBC7)	Where in the Channel does England end and France begins? Dr Renaud Morieux, senior lecturer in History at Cambridge University, examines how that understanding has influenced peace, conflict and trade. And in the company of Dr Susan Foister, Deputy Director of the National Gallery, he reflects on what Turner's painting of Calais Pier reveals of the Channel at the time. The series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so. Music composed by Phil Channell Producer: Marya Burges The fluid frontier. Where in the Channel does England end and France begins?
01	05	Making The Crossing	20180330	20221118 (BBC7) 20221119 (BBC7)	Christine Finn covered The Channel for local press and TV through the 1980s-90s Now she examines recent developments in our relationship with the Strait as our portal to Europe - as she meets those making the crossing on the DFDS Cote des Dunes. This series examines how this waterway has affected our British identity through time, and continues to do so. Music composed by Phil Channell Producer: Marya Burgess From the Beaujolais Run to the building of the Tunnel, a journalist's tales.