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Tyneside

Sea Cities Series 1
Episode 2 of 5

Tyneside's biggest fabrication yard fights for its future, and a local ferry has a key role when the world's biggest half marathon comes to town.

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Tue 24 Oct 2017 16:15
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Sea City - Tyneside

Sea City - Tyneside

Around the coast of Britain are cities where the sea shapes people鈥檚 lives.聽The Shields Ferry is legendary on the Tyne - like its Skipper, Sting look-alike Chris McGuinness, who鈥檚 not averse to opening the odd supermarket for extra cash.

But passenger numbers have fallen in recent years, forcing ferry manager Carol Timlin to get creative to try and bring in extra money: she鈥檚 sold all the tickets for a sing-along cruise down the Tyne.

Will ferry staff cope with the busiest day of the year, when the world鈥檚 biggest half marathon, the Great North Run, rolls into town?

Huge gas modules are being built at Tyneside鈥檚 largest manufacturing yard OGN, but the company faces a challenging future. For the shrunken workforce, including 56 year-old plater Stephen Goicoechea, it鈥檚 a worrying time.

Many, like him, may have to travel far afield to get work if the yard goes under. Union shop steward Terry Telford is keeping the faith (something he says he has experience of, being a Newcastle United fan).

Meanwhile, students Chris Falconer and Ryan Bird are training to be deck officers at the oldest Marine School in the world based in South Shields.

We see them put through their paces in a dramatic simulator assessment in charge of a ship, before the toughest test of all - a verbal grilling in the Maritime and Coastguard Agency oral exams.

Also, we meet聽former tug-master turned lecturer at the School, Tommy Proctor organises the annual rowing race on the Tyne.

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Producer Andy Smythe
Series Producer Adam Keelan

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