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The Cold War secret on the Mendips

The research centre improved the accuracy of radar systems for ground-to-air missiles.

• 9 mins

The frozen in time Somerset chemist

The South Petherton chemist was recreated in Cornwall and is now moving to County Durham.

• 7 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.

• 5 mins

Inside Hinkley Point B: The Station Director

Nicola Fauvel speaks to Charlie Taylor on working in the nuclear power station.

• 6 mins

Inside Hinkley Point B: The Tour

EDF's Shaheed Mungur takes Charlie Taylor on a tour of the nuclear power station.

• 10 mins

Building Brunel’s lost railway

Yeovil Railway Centre's volunteers are trying to raise £100k pounds for the project.

• 4 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’.

• 4 mins

The forgotten canal tunnel closed for over 150 years

Simon Maggs takes us down into the Crimson Hill Tunnel running under his garden.

• 7 mins

The Exmoor Oral History Archive

Birdie Johnson recorded over 200 hours of archive around the turn of the century.

• 10 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.

• 2 mins

Glastonbury’s Iron Age lake village

Remains from a 2000-year-old settlement on the Avalon Marshes are in the town's museum.

• 9 mins

Oliver Cromwell’s role in the Battle of Langport

The Parliamentarians beat the Royalists at the Battle of Langport in 1645.

• 9 mins