TOWN with Nicholas Crane - Season 2

TOWN with Nicholas Crane - Season 2

Season 2

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Episodes4
Datesmai 21, 2013 - juin 11, 2013
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Episodes

Oban
Season 2Episode 160 min

Oban

Gateway to the spectacular beauty of the Western Isles, the port of Oban is a major rail terminal and ferry port, but is it anything more? Geographer and adventurer Nicholas Crane looks behind the transit-lounge image to find a town with a dramatic past, including a surprising role in the Cold War of the 1960s and a world of adrenalin-fuelled adventure, great seafood, and inspiring scenery.
mai 21, 2013
Saffron Walden
Season 2Episode 260 min

Saffron Walden

An attractive market town within easy commuting distance of London, Saffron Walden has some of the best preserved medieval architecture in the country. However its heritage is now under threat. Nicholas Crane discovers what gave this town its unique name and how the UK's housing crisis is affecting its future.
mai 28, 2013
Huddersfield
Season 2Episode 360 min

Huddersfield

The geographer explores Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, where former prime minister Harold Wilson was born and the place where rugby league is regarded as having been founded. He learns how an out-of-the-way village was transformed into a manufacturing centre during the Industrial Revolution, as well as how it might once again be about to prompt radical changes in the textile business. The presenter learns that the town's residents have a strong sense of identity, and actor Patrick Stewart recalls his childhood in the area.
juin 4, 2013
Enniskillen
Season 2Episode 460 min

Enniskillen

Nicholas Crane visits the most westerly town in the UK, Enniskillen.
juin 11, 2013

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