- Title: Atlantic Britain
- Date: 2nd October 2004
- Summary: Adam sails east across the top of Scotland to the Orkney Islands. After visiting the oldest house in northern Europe, which is older than the pyramids, Adam goes to stay with a group of ultra-orthodox monks, the Transalpine Redemptorists, who have bought one of the Orcadian islands as the site for Britain's newest monastery. Coming from all over the world, the monks rise at 3.15 every morning and attend services in Latin eight times a day. All meals are conducted in silence and novices are not allowed any jam at breakfast. After just a few hours with them, it becomes clear that the monks are going to have a go at converting Adam...
- Description:Writer and novice sailor Adam Nicholson sails the length of Atlantic Britain,from the Scilly Isles to Orkney,in search of the strange and unusual people who,battered by the most extreme weather and seas in the world,cling to the edge of Europe. Writer and journalist Adam Nicolson has taken out a second mortgage to buy The Auk, a 42-foot sailing boat, to sail up the west coast of the British Isles. From the Scilly Isles up the west coast of Ireland, through the Hebrides and on to Orkney and beyond, it's a 1,500-mile sea journey along one of the world's greatest landscapes. Adam explores the history of the west coast: what originally drew people to live on the edge? And he finds out who still lives here today, and how their lives are shaped by the power of the Atlantic. The only problem is, he's never sailed anything bigger than a dinghy before.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: KEO Films
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Keo Films Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 7
- Transmission Date:02/10/2004
- Rights:UK and Eire
- Decade: 2000s