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Open Country: Durham: Time and the Tides

Series 1407, episode 5

With its beaches, rugged cliffs and imposing headlands, the Durham coastline is a dramatic landscape, stretching from Sunderland to Hartlepool in north-east England. Today it is designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty owing to its Magnesian Limestone grasslands, wildflower meadows and ancient woodlands. Archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby and poets Katrina Porteus and Phoebe Power reflect on how they feel inspired by the area's landscape and communities