Secret Kent Episodes Episode guide
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Wouldham's hero
Trafalgar sailor rests at Wouldham.
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Whitstable's Shipwreck Pioneers
The story of how deep sea helmet diving began.
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White Cliffs Lost Light
The story of South Foreland's pioneering beacon.
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Where war gave way to beauty and calm
Step inside the history of Hole Park Gardens with Steve Ladner.
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When The Beatles came to Sevenoaks.
The story of when the Fab Four came to town.
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When nature takes over
The story of Samphire Hoe, the newest part of the UK.
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When Hollywood came to New Romney
Why did two legends of the silver screen come to ride a train?
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Wheelchairs, Umbrellas... Cuddly Toy?
Where does something you lost on a train end up?
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What lies beneath Chislehurst?
Do we always know what's under our feet?
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What did the Romans do for Rochester?
Steve Ladner digs into the history spanning the River Medway.
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Walk with alpacas in Yalding
Addiction charity helped by some interesting four legged friends.
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Train robbers, the Krays and a Thanet boy
The story of Ernest Millen CBE who rose to head of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad.
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Tragedy on the 'Princess Margaret'
It was Dover's cross channel catastrophe.
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Tragedy in Faversham
The disastrous gunpowder explosion of 1916.
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The woman who collected 42,000 insects
Sarah Lonsdale explores the extraordinary life of Evelyn Cheesman,
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The Witches of Faversham
How laughing at a man hurting his backside ended in tragedy.
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The untold story of Van 132
How a humble railway wagon became part of history.
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The unassuming church with a very long past.
Exploring the story of one of Canterbury's tucked away secrets.
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The tunnels that saved a school
Thought lost forever, we explore the underground classrooms of a Maidstone school.
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The Tudor Spies of Shipbourne
Intrigue hidden in a painting?
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The train that jumped the gap
The day a doodlebug took out a railway bridge at Upchurch causing death and destruction.
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The Tale Of The Eagle Slayer
From Hyde Park to Rolvenden via Dartford.
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The tale of Samual Plimsoll
The Victorian MP and social reform campaigner is remembered in Folkestone.
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The story of the black Windmill
It's Rolvenden Windmill and it only survives because of an awful accident.
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The story of Deadmans Island
How a small piece of land is giving up its dead.
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The story behind Whitstable's Sirens
A series of life casts of town residents stand tall on the shingle.
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The Pirate of Faversham quayside
Was a former fish gutter from the town the inspiration for Pirate Jack Sparrow?
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The man who killed the King.
The story of the Maidstone Mayor who committed regicide.
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The lady launchers of Dungeness
The story of a woman who was on hand to launch the Dungeness lifeboat when it was needed.
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The killing field at Penenden Heath
Exploring the gruesome past of a Maidstone suburb.