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Number lifeboat, the 54ft Arun City of Bradford IV, off Spurn Point. The lifeboat, her coxswain, Brian Sevan, and his crew are the subject of a comprehensive BBC! television documentary series due to start in late Autumn. To film the seven parts, cameraman Paul Berriff, who took the cover picture, lived for four months in a caravan at the end of Spurn Point, the remote promontory at the mouth of the River Humber where the lifeboat is stationed. He was able to film all the rescues over the period and the series shows how closely the lifeboatmen and coastguards work together. Paul Berriff also captured the lifestyle of the seven full-time lifeboatmen and their families who live on this lonely station.

Transmission dates will be announced by the BBC nearer the time..

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