Seaside: Englands Love Affair

England's great holiday resorts began as spas for medicinal bathing but soon morphed into places of pleasure, entertainment, fantasy and adventure. Acclaimed writer Madeleine Bunting journeyed clockwise around England from Scarborough to Blackpool to find out what has happened to the golden sands, cold seas and donkey rides of childhood memory. Taking in forty resorts, and staying in hotels, caravans and holiday camps, she swims from their beaches and talks to their residents to delve into their landscapes, histories and contemporary plight.