Alistair Moffat spent a year travelling the North Sea shores to better understand our relationship to this life-giving and destructive sea. Running from Kent and the Rhine estuary to the Norwegian coast and the tip of the Shetland islands, it has been home to warring tribes, foreign invaders, lost civilisations and holidaymakers. Along the way he discovered stories as old as time, meeting technological advances in wind farming, as well as a body of water so powerful and destructive it is claiming more and more shoreline every year.
Illustrated talk introduced by Liv Chapman
“A rollicking, surprising, often moving personal history of a big part of the British story that has long needed its own narrative. Page-turningly entertaining.” – Andrew Marr
”The North Sea is a rich and adventurous exploration of one of the great arenas of British history.” – Michael Palin
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