Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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I understand from the BBC that Dover is to be featured on the popular Coast programme on BBC2, on Sunday 5 June at 9pm.
It is partly filmed at Dover Castle and focusses on the'Channel Dash of 1942, including an interview with an Austrian war veteran who was aboard the 'Prinz Eugen.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thanks for the tip off andrew, a great programme normally, will be even more enthralling with local interest added.
I love that programme - I rarely watch telly but make an exception for that! How marvellous for Dover to be featured.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Apparently, on receiving the order to make a run up the Straits of Dover, the German commander of the three warships, looking through his telescope, said to his adjutant:
Bring my my brown corduroys!
Is it a new program , as i remember watching a simmilar program a couple of years ago ?
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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Yes Mark, it is definitely a new series. I worked on it when it was being filmed, last year.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Andrew yes I still have pictures of you somewhere in the system working on the programme, as you did let me have some shots...I think Im remembering that correctly.
Hope it goes well. Very popular series of course so should do.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes here we are...Andrew Stucken himself and Neil Oliver
Good picture indeed. Well done there Andrew.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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Will definitely take a look in at that always a very good program, they have been to some very interesting places.
And it will be good to see Dover featured.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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thats if they get it right in the first place,un like last time.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Most of the Coast programs that show Dover, just skim over it - they mention the cliffs, maybe the Castle and that's it; when they show other areas around Britain, they go into quite a lot of depth about the area and its history, but not here.
We have so much history here, but it is never talked about on these programs: nothing on the Western Heights - the Grand Shaft or the Drop Redoubt; the Bronze-Age Boat; Crabble Corn Mill; the Roman Painted House or anything - we all know it's here, but outside of Dover, not many other people do.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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roger,i think you find its slective editing,lack of research and a lazyness of the programe makers inabilaty to promote dover in a good light.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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The BBC are notning if not thorough.
Neil Oliver was, incidentally, not involved in the piece off filming I was helping with so hopefully he was filming an other feature about the area. We shall see.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I have suggested Western Heights in the past but never even got a reply
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it is not really known outside of dover, i had never heard of the heights until i moved here.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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An excellent reason to get them covered, they are all for the hidden gems of the country
Been nice knowing you :)
Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 18 Aug 2008
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Dover was mentioned on Location, Location, Location last night. A couple were shown around a house in Temple Ewell. I recognised it, it is on the Alkam Valley road, backing on to Kearsney Abbey.
They were also shown around an apartment in the old Grand Hotel at Folkestone and a house on the seafront at Hythe.
The couple finished up buying an apartment in the Piedmont area of Italy.
The busy and noisy front road put them off the Temple Ewell property.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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I think to be covered they would have to be open virtually all year round.
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Spot the mistake on the BBC !!
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Have they moved Dover without telling us?
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