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Lisa Abernethy shows Richard King around the RNLI station in Portrush.

Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King.

Today: Lisa Abernethy shows Richard King around the RNLI station in Portrush.

Not simply town or countryside, the coastline is a place apart – attracting lives and stories often overlooked.

In these ten programmes, the writer Richard King travels around the UK coast to meet people who live and work there – a sequence of portraits rooted in distinct places, which piece together into an alternative portrait of the UK: an oblique image of the nation drawn from the coastal edge.

Producer: Martin Williams

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Fri 21 Aug 202614:45
BBC Radio 4

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