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Runswick Bay on TV!

Runswick Bay featured on Channel 5 on 22nd January 2021 for Susan Calman's Grand Day Out!

You can watch it again here: https://www.channel5.com/show/susan-calmans-grand-days-out/

Runswick Bay featured on Kate Humble's Coastal Walks on Friday 19th March 2021, Channel 5.

Jonathan Ross also made a TV programme Myths & Legends for Channel 4 exploring our Hob Holes (Aired 2023).

Heken Skelton and Dan Walker - Yorkshire Great and Small - Channel 5 aired 12th September 2024

Villages by the Sea, BBC - Aired November 2024

 

And back in time.....

A young Gwyneth Paltrow - can be seen on the beach in the film  "Possession"

The original video for Chris Rea's song On the Beach was filmed at Runswick Bay and pans to the front of Castle House.

The BBC childrens channel - Cbeebies have filmed many things here including most scenes from Old Jacks Boat with the late great, Bernard Cribbins. Bernard took shelter in Fuchsia Cottage during film and Crab & Lobster Cottage was used as a make shift costume and make up department.

The film The Runaways with Mark Addy, Tara Fitzgerald and Molly Windsor was partly filmed at Runswick Bay.

And The Fast Show with Caroline Aherne and Paul Whitehouse filmed scenes on the beach. One sketch called Heroin Galore - a spoof of the Whiskey Galore film is quite clearly Runswick. 

Simply Red filmed Holding Back the Years in Whitby and Mick Hucknall was rumoured to have fallen in love with Runswick and wanted to buy a house here.

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