Secret Northampton Episodes Available now

Watford Gap: More than just a motorway services
Best known for its stop on the M1, this is a place of national importance on many levels.

Three thinking: The Rushton Triangular Lodge
Why three is the magic number for this iconic Northamptonshire building.

Northants’ ‘grandest and most perfect’ structure
The remarkable and terrifying story of the building of the Harringworth-Welland viaduct.

The Titanic squash coach
The tragic tale of Frederick Wright from Great Billing, the RMS Titanic’s squash coach.

Who was Peter The Saracen?
What is known about the earliest Muslim to be recorded as living in Northampton?

The Rothwell Bone Crypt
What the depths of a Northamptonshire church tells us about medieval attitudes to death.

Sessions House – justice from the ashes
The story of one of the first buildings to be built after the Great Fire of Northampton.

Daventry’s war-winning experiment
How did an experiment in a Daventry field birth British radar?

Remember, Remember…. Ashby St Ledgers
How was a Northamptonshire village central to the notorious Gunpowder Plot?

What lies beneath the Old Black Lion?
What clues do a disused pub give to the history of one of Northampton’s oldest churches?