- Title: Atlantic Britain
- Date: 25th September 2004
- Summary: Adam reaches the remotest of the Hebridean outliers, St Kilda and North Rona. Once permanently inhabited by thriving communities, the people moved out as much as 100 years ago, leaving the natural world to reclaim possession of these islands. But in the wake of such abundant wildlife comes a new and very modern breed of coloniser: the scientists. Adam joins the sheep scientists of St Kilda and the seal taggers of North Rona as they go about their daily business, chasing lid sheep into nets and gluing aerials to the heads of seal pups.
- 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 6
- Transmission Date:25/09/2004
- Rights:UK and Eire
- Decade: 2000s