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Secret Suffolk Episodes

  1.

    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?

  2. What is it?

    It's all that's left from an old Suffolk business Firmin & Co. But what on earth is it?

  3. What happened to The Suffolk Regiment on D-Day?

    The Great War Huts in Hawstead tell the story of the First Battalion Suffolk Regiment.

  4. Watch out for the fairies...

    Suffolk is a hotbed of fairy activity with an unusually high number of spritely stories.

  5. Tornado Smith the Suffolk daredevil

    The Wall of Death rider used to ride with a lion on the handlebars

  6. Thorpeness: Suffolk's Neverland

    The first purpose-built seaside village in the UK was created right here in Suffolk.

  7. Things you didn't know about the Orwell Bridge

    Exploring the history of the Orwell Bridge.

  8. The Suffolk company that gave us rock 'n' roll

    Celestion pioneered some of the earliest guitar amps.

  9. The Stowmarket guncotton explosion

    The explosion was so loud it was heard 32 miles away in Southwold.

  10. The Rendelsham royal temple

    Remains of a royal temple believed to be 1,400 years-old close were only recently found.

  11. The making of Minsmere

    The first full time warden was Herbert Axell

  12. 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.

  13. The castle keeping an Eye on the past

    Why Eye Castle was once a hugely important landmark for royalty in East Anglia.

  14. Suffolk's ghostly goings on

    Suffolk has a high proportion of ghost stories. These are just a few of them.

  15. Southwold and the Tour de France

    Southwold's place in the birth of The Tour de France

  16. Recycling Suffolk barns around the world

    Tom Webster from Blythburgh has been giving old barns a new life for over 50 years.

  17. Four minutes on Thomas Gainsborough

    Artist Thomas Gainsborough is Sudbury's most famous son. What else do we know about him?

  18. Flatford Mill: Much more than a pretty picture

    The mill is home to the Field Studies Council

  19. Edward & Mrs Simpson: The Felixstowe connection

    What role did the Suffolk seaside town play in the biggest royal scandal of all?

  20. Dunwich Dynamo: 'Like ghosts in the night'

    Cycling from Hackney to Dunwich overnight

  21. Deeper underground: Inside Grime鈥檚 Graves

    Underneath Thetford Forest is Britain鈥檚 only open Neolithic flint mine.