Scenes from Saundersfoot’s annual ‘New Year’s Day Swim’ will be one of the many sights to feature in a new BBC programme that starts tonight (Friday) focusing on the Pembrokeshire coastline.

‘The Pembrokeshire Coast: A Wild Year’ narrated by actor Toby Jones will be broadcast on Friday, July 3 at 9 pm on BBC Two across the UK.

The series features the county’s world famous coastline over a year of filming, and documents the busy summer beaches (filmed long before Covid-19 restrictions which remain in place) the arrival of seal pups along the countless sheltered coves and bays and the Atlantic storms that follow.

Episode One will feature local fisherman Jono Voyce as he heads out from Solva harbour into St Brides Bay to fish for the lobster and crab he supplies to these coastal communities.

Taking in July, the programme features Pembrokeshire’s beaches - ‘a playground for countless visitors’.

Focus then switches to hurricane season - a thousand miles away across the ocean, with the Pembrokeshire coast the first to feel the legacy of these storms.

In anticipation of huge, battering waves, boats are lifted out of harbours for protection. In the town of Tenby, there is no denying the winter gloom, but by celebrating annual traditions, communities bring in some welcome light and warmth!

Further details are available at https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kl8y