Blue Peter

Blue Peter Goes West

Cornwall and the Scilly Isles with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd John joins the gruelling 'Gigs Race' which began when the men from the Scilly Isles rowed between the Islands to guide ships off the jagged rocks around the coast. In Cornwall Peter finds out how fireworks became lifesavers. At sea Lesley makes the terrifying journey by breeches buoy on to the Bishop Rock Lighthouse.