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Bristol features in new BBC programme ‘Sea City’
Around the coast of Britain are cities where the sea shapes people’s lives. On February 2 at 7.30pm, viewers will be given the chance to glimpse the work and play that takes place around Bristol’s port and harbour as part of a new BBC programme, Sea City.
Stories will be packed into the 30-minute programme, including shining a spotlight on the Pill Hobblers, who, for the first time in their 600-year-history, allowed a film crew to follow them as a new recruit joined the team, mooring and berthing the ships at Avonmouth. The 18-strong team of men from Pill, North Somerset, exclusively handle, or ‘hobble’, ships entering the Port of Bristol.
Pill Hobblers Matthew ‘Boff’ Steven and Alan Wring. Photograph by Huntley Hedworth/BBC
The programme also meets a triathlete undertaking the Bristol Harbourside Triathlon to raise money for research into Parkinson’s disease, patrols the water with deputy harbour master Pete Seed during the 2017 Bristol Harbour Festival, goes onboard The Matthew, Bristol’s most famous working ship, and follows an £8m cargo of Airbus A300M wings heading by lorry to the port of Avonmouth for shipping on a 2am tide.
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Sea City Bristol will be shown on BBC One on Friday, 2 February 2018 at 7.30pm.
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