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Secret Somerset

Explore fascinating stories from Somerset.

Radio Somerset,54 episodes

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The witchcraft trial of Julian Cox
Julian Cox was the last person to be executed in Taunton for witchcraft in 1663.
13 Sep 2024,7 mins
The Somerset bank with its own banknotes
It’s said Stuckey’s banknotes had a circulation second only to the Bank of England.
30 Aug 2024,5 mins
Old Mother Leakey: the ghost of Minehead
A ghost, a bishop and mysterious shipwrecks around Minehead harbour.
21 Aug 2024,10 mins
The hidden past of Exmoor’s WW2 training site
A radar station and archaeological remains can be found on the North Hill site.
13 Aug 2024,9 mins
In the cockpit of Concorde
The story of Yeovilton’s Concorde at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
13 Aug 2024,10 mins
The Exmoor pub with famous connections
A president, a spy and a tragic ghost – the history of The Royal Oak in Withypool.
30 Jul 2024,9 mins
Taunton’s Tudor Tavern
The town's oldest listed domestic building is now a café.
25 Jul 2024,8 mins
How Cheddar inspired Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
The author first visited the picturesque area of Somerset on his honeymoon in 1916.
11 Jul 2024,5 mins
The coal miner who ended up in a lunatic asylum
Mark Whitcomb and the Furman sisters are remembered at the Mendip Hospital Cemetery.
03 Jul 2024,8 mins
The Pauper Lunatic Asylum Cemetery
The cemetery is the final resting place for inmates and staff from the asylum.
25 Jun 2024,9 mins
The burning city on the Mendips
Lights and fires were used to trick German bombers into thinking they’d reached Bristol.
19 Jun 2024,8 mins
The gothic mansion that became a TB Sanatorium
Quantock Lodge was built in the 1800s for the-then MP of Taunton, Henry Labouchere.
13 Jun 2024,9 mins
The D-Day air support
Discover the role the South West’s airfields played in D-Day.
05 Jun 2024,6 mins
The Witch of Wookey Hole
Exploring the caves and the legend of the witch of Wookey Hole.
05 Jun 2024,9 mins
The Bakery that disappeared from the A303
The Bakery in West Camel no longer sits on the A303 due to the new road layout.
05 Jun 2024,10 mins
The lost village of Clicket
The Exmoor village was abandoned more than a hundred years ago.
05 Jun 2024,8 mins
The Exmoor White Horse Inn
The story and history of a 16th Century Inn owned by a couple for the past 35 years.
05 Jun 2024,8 mins
Glastonbury’s 550 year old pub
The George and Pilgrims Inn claims to be the oldest purpose-built pub in the South West
05 Jun 2024,7 mins
The Gurt Worm
The legend of the Gurt Worm on the Quantocks.
05 Jun 2024,9 mins
The darker side of the Mendip hills
A new digital trail tells the dark stories of Cheddar and the Mendips.
05 Jun 2024,6 mins
The lepers’ hamlet
Culbone now consists of two houses and the tiny church of St Beuno.
05 Jun 2024,9 mins
The hauntings and history of Syndenham House
The grade II listed building is over 500 years old and is full of haunted tales.
05 Jun 2024,9 mins
The Taunton flat unchanged since the 1960s
The flat holds more than 50 years of family history.
05 Jun 2024,10 mins
Dead Woman’s Ditch
The chilling story of where a woman's body was discovered in 1789.
05 Jun 2024,12 mins