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Secret Somerset

Explore fascinating stories from Somerset.

Radio Somerset,54 episodes

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Oliver Cromwell’s role in the Battle of Langport
The Parliamentarians beat the Royalists at the Battle of Langport in 1645.
11 Jul 2025,9 mins
Glastonbury’s Iron Age lake village
Remains from a 2000-year-old settlement on the Avalon Marshes are in the town's museum.
18 Jun 2025,9 mins
Inside Wells Cathedral’s ‘financial centre’
Guide Clive Edney takes us on a tour of the Treasury Block at the end of Vicars’ close.
16 Jun 2025,2 mins
The Exmoor Oral History Archive
Birdie Johnson recorded over 200 hours of archive around the turn of the century.
29 May 2025,10 mins
The forgotten canal tunnel closed for over 150 years
Simon Maggs takes us down into the Crimson Hill Tunnel running under his garden.
27 May 2025,7 mins
The mill in Bryan Adams’ music video is for sale
The old mill features in the music video for ‘(Everything I Do) I Do It For You’.
16 May 2025,4 mins
Building Brunel’s lost railway
Yeovil Railway Centre's volunteers are trying to raise £100k pounds for the project.
17 Apr 2025,4 mins
Inside Hinkley Point B: The Tour
EDF's Shaheed Mungur takes Charlie Taylor on a tour of the nuclear power station.
15 Apr 2025,10 mins
Inside Hinkley Point B: The Station Director
Nicola Fauvel speaks to Charlie Taylor on working in the nuclear power station.
08 Apr 2025,6 mins
Somerset is home to the tallest tree in England
The Douglas Fir tree on Exmoor became the country’s tallest tree in August 2024.
01 Apr 2025,5 mins
The frozen in time Somerset chemist
The South Petherton chemist was recreated in Cornwall and is now moving to County Durham.
21 Mar 2025,7 mins
The Cold War secret on the Mendips
The research centre improved the accuracy of radar systems for ground-to-air missiles.
17 Mar 2025,9 mins
Brean Down: from the Iron Age to WWII
The land has seen an Iron Age hill fort, a Roman temple and a Victorian folly.
05 Mar 2025,8 mins
Black dogs on the Quantocks?
Dan Broadbent from the Quantock Landscape Partnership Scheme recounts mythical tales.
25 Feb 2025,6 mins
The incredible stories of Cricket St Thomas
The estate has been used as a wildlife park, a theme park and filming location.
20 Feb 2025,13 mins
The Victorian pleasure ground
The artist William Turner sketched the view of the Watchet coast from the site.
13 Feb 2025,8 mins
The leaning church of Burnham-on-Sea
Discovering the unique quirks of St Andrew's Church built in the 14th century.
03 Feb 2025,7 mins
Did King George III’s secret son live in Somerset?
Frederick Blomberg was adopted and raised by the King and Queen in 1765.
24 Jan 2025,10 mins
Ilminster’s Victorian police cells
The former magistrates’ court and police station building now houses the town council.
23 Jan 2025,7 mins
Somerset village linked to two American presidents
John Adams and John Quincy Adams are remembered in Barton St David’s church.
17 Jan 2025,8 mins
The factory behind the breakfast table staple
Hemyock in the Blackdown Hills produced St Ivel Gold until 2008.
14 Jan 2025,6 mins
The haunting of Hestercombe
The ghost of Mrs Portman has been spotted in the historic house by visitors.
10 Dec 2024,6 mins
Ilminster’s shooting club
The rifle group is thought to have started in the Victorian times.
09 Dec 2024,9 mins
80 years of Calverts in Taunton
The family-run furniture shop was established in 1944.
29 Nov 2024,4 mins
Chard’s hanging tree
A hanging tree once stood between Tesco and B&Q in the town.
21 Nov 2024,6 mins
Reconstructing Somerset’s Roman Mosaics
Volunteers have spent five years reproducing Roman designs at Avalon Archaeology.
18 Nov 2024,10 mins
From Exmoor to Australia: The oldest ringing church bell
How a 16th century bell that chimed in Upton ended up in an rainforest wedding chapel.
18 Oct 2024,8 mins
The chained library with books older than America
The Wells Cathedral library securely holds books, published before the 1800s, in chains.
04 Oct 2024,7 mins
The WW2 hero who didn’t carry a weapon
Arturo Fanconi from Ilminster was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for saving lives.
25 Sep 2024,7 mins
The bootmaker whose inventions changed lives
Chard's James Gillingham found his calling after a local man was injured in an accident.
24 Sep 2024,7 mins