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Secret Kent Episodes

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    Hop Pickers Tragedy at Hartlake

    How disaster unfolded in the River Medway near Hadlow.

  2. History, deer and the Fab Four all in one place

    We sneak inside Knole Park in Sevenoaks.

  3. Hawkhurst's Original Cubist

    How the humble stock cube came to be and the story of a life touched by tragedy.

  4. Have You Got The Time?

    How did Victorian mariners tell the time off the Kent Coast?

  5. Hadlow's towering heart

    It dominates the landscape but is it a castle, a church or just a folly?

  6. Gravesham's Cold War Secret

    The dark secrets lying beneath a Gravesend Park.

  7. From Founding Father to a Pauper's Grave

    The sad story of the man who created a global sporting giant.

  8. From Chatham to The White House

    Chatham's historic dockyard is where Steve Ladner sought out the tale of a famous desk.

  9. From Charing With Love

    Exploring Ian Fleming and 007's connections with the county.

  10. Four Hauntings and a Phoney Funeral

    Exploring the spooky tales of Scotney Castle.

  11. Folkestone's Lost Pier

    The short life of a Victorian seaside experience.

  12. Faversham's Russian Princess

    Discover how the surviving Romanov's fled revolution and ended up in Kent.

  13. Eyes On The Coast

    Meeting the volunteers keeping watch on our coast.

  14. Dover's starring role in the film they banned

    What would happen if a nuclear bomb went off in Dover?

  15. Dover's secluded shipwreck

    The story of the SS Falcon and her final resting place.

  16. Dover's Roman Light

    Exploring the story of the Pharos light.

  17. Dover's most amazing shortcut?

    Steve Ladner explores a Napoleonic stairway.

  18. Dover in Miniature

    Exploring the origins of an 1815 tableau of Dover Docks, with Jo Burn. Photo: 蜜芽传媒

  19. Dover Castle's most intriguing door

    'We've known it was there for years but have only just been able to reach it'.

  20. Divorced, Beheaded, Boleyn

    Step inside the bedroom of Anne from Hever, who changed England's path.

  21. Disaster on Dock Road

    When tragedy struck the Medway Towns in 1951.

  22. Death on the Forecourt

    The story behind a pet cemetery on the A21.

  23. Death on a Thanet Beach

    Exploring Thanet's links to a ripping yarn and how life ended up imitating art!

  24. Death In The Woods

    A gamekeeper is killed at East Peckham but was it murder?

  25. Death in exile

    The story of how a French Emperor came to live and die in Chislehurst.

  26. Death at Staplehurst

    How Charles Dickens became a hero but at great personal cost in 1865.

  27. Cooling's Grave Expectations

    How Charles Dickens was inspired by a Kent graveyard.

  28. Cobham's empty tomb

    Close to the bustling A2, Steve Ladner finds a folly to human behaviour.

  29. Churchill's Big Guns

    White Cliff's artillery battery being brought back to life.

  30. Chislehurst's naughty little schoolboy!

    How the creator of Just William made Chislehurst home.

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