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Secret Suffolk

Explore fascinating stories from Suffolk.

Radio Suffolk,29 episodes

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Brooklyn to Tunstall: Chuck’s Suffolk
Chuck fell in love with a community in Suffolk
23 Oct 2025,16 mins
The Willis Building: Designing an Ipswich icon
The Lord Norman Foster designed building is 50 years old
02 Jul 2025,16 mins
The Willis Building: A lifelong passion
The Lord Norman Foster designed building is 50 years old.
12 Jun 2025,15 mins
The ruins of Rougham
Rougham Hall: Hidden histories and the mystery of a German bombing
08 May 2025,13 mins
The Suffolk books bound in human skin
The Red Barn Murder
14 Apr 2025,11 mins
The Battle of Fornham: Suffolk's forgotten battle
The biggest medieval battle in England
27 Mar 2025,6 mins
The Rickinghall village mystery
The boundaries, and much more have caused 'issues' through the years.
27 Jan 2025,10 mins
The final visitors
The demolition of Orfordness Lighthouse took place in 2020
25 Nov 2024,11 mins
The making of Minsmere
The first full time warden was Herbert Axell
31 Oct 2024,11 mins
Suffolk and the Tour de France
Southwold's place in the birth of The Tour de France
28 Oct 2024,8 mins
Tornado Smith the Suffolk daredevil
The Wall of Death rider used to ride with a lion on the handlebars
04 Oct 2024,10 mins
Flatford Mill: Much more than a pretty picture
The mill is home to the Field Studies Council
25 Sep 2024,10 mins
Things you didn't know about the Orwell Bridge
Exploring the history of the Orwell Bridge.
16 Sep 2024,10 mins
The Suffolk company that gave us rock 'n' roll
Celestion pioneered some of the earliest guitar amps.
13 Sep 2024,4 mins
The lost Bury team of the Paris air disaster
In 1974 a Turkish Airlines plane crashed near Paris, killing 18 members of a rugby team.
10 mins
Deeper underground: Inside Grime’s Graves
Underneath Thetford Forest is Britain’s only open Neolithic flint mine.
27 Aug 2024,1 min
Where is the centre of Suffolk?
If you were to put a pin in the map marking Suffolk's middle point, where would it go?
23 Aug 2024,1 min
The castle keeping an Eye on the past
Why Eye Castle was once a hugely important landmark for royalty in East Anglia.
21 Aug 2024,2 mins
Watch out for the fairies...
Suffolk is a hotbed of fairy activity with an unusually high number of spritely stories.
19 Aug 2024,3 mins
The Stowmarket guncotton explosion
The explosion was so loud it was heard 32 miles away in Southwold.
09 Aug 2024,10 mins
Thorpeness: Suffolk's Neverland
The first purpose-built seaside village in the UK was created right here in Suffolk.
06 Aug 2024,3 mins
Edward & Mrs Simpson: The Felixstowe connection
What role did the Suffolk seaside town play in the biggest royal scandal of all?
06 Aug 2024,3 mins
Four minutes on Thomas Gainsborough
Artist Thomas Gainsborough is Sudbury's most famous son. What else do we know about him?
02 Aug 2024,4 mins
The Rendelsham royal temple
Remains of a royal temple believed to be 1,400 years-old close were only recently found.
01 Aug 2024,2 mins
What happened to The Suffolk Regiment on D-Day?
The Great War Huts in Hawstead tell the story of the First Battalion Suffolk Regiment.
30 Jul 2024,3 mins
What is it?
It's all that's left from an old Suffolk business Firmin & Co. But what on earth is it?
30 Jul 2024,2 mins
Recycling Suffolk barns around the world
Tom Webster from Blythburgh has been giving old barns a new life for over 50 years.
30 Jul 2024,3 mins
Suffolk's ghostly goings on
Suffolk has a high proportion of ghost stories. These are just a few of them.
30 Jul 2024,6 mins
Dunwich Dynamo: 'Like ghosts in the night'
Cycling from Hackney to Dunwich overnight
17 Jul 2024,9 mins