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Secret Sussex

Explore fascinating stories from Sussex. To share ideas or stories with the team, email secretsussex@bbc.co.uk. Series Producer: Simon Furber.

Radio Sussex,98 episodes

Episodes

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The Coffin Trail
Why Sussex villagers carried their dead across the South Downs.
31 Jul 2026,8 mins
The lighthouse on the edge
Belle Tout escaped the cliff edge once – but the sea is coming again.
30 Jul 2026,6 mins
The Railway Up the Dyke
The astonishing Victorian railway that climbed the side of Devil's Dyke.
24 Jul 2026,7 mins
The men who refused to fight
They stood by their principles and were put to work building Sussex’s wartime roads.
10 Jul 2026,8 mins
The Acid Bath Murders
In 1949, all eyes fixed on Horsham’s courtroom as a gruesome murder case unfolded.
03 Jul 2026,8 mins
The forgotten powerhouse in the forest
The Fernhurst ironworks that once powered the Weald – now swallowed by the trees.
26 Jun 2026,7 mins
The man-made River Arun
The extraordinary engineering that made Arundel one of Britain’s most unlikely ports.
05 Jun 2026,5 mins
The Royal Pavilion Hospital
How Brighton’s most recognisable landmark became a wartime hospital for Indian soldiers.
9 mins
The hedge that hid 3,000 ancient coins
How labourers uncovered a buried pot of Anglo Saxon silver in a field near Steyning.
4 mins
Gatwick’s original Art Deco terminal
The Beehive was the world’s first circular airport terminal and is perfectly preserved.
5 mins
The giant on the hill
Is the Long Man an ancient guardian, a medieval warning, or a Victorian illusion?
5 mins
The King under the church floor
A headless skeleton and the mysterious grave beneath the chancel.
5 mins
The tunnels hidden beneath a housing estate
The underground wartime nerve centre buried beneath South Heighton.
5 mins
The Sussex town that went on tour
The miniature Sussex masterpiece once adored across Britain.
7 mins
The man who lives in a postcard
Life inside Sussex’s most photographed cottages isn’t as idyllic as it looks.
6 mins
The ghost station in the South Downs
The grand Victorian station built for royalty and racegoers in a small Sussex village.
7 mins
The graves beneath the yews
Ghosts, legends and the buried Viking kings of Kingley Vale.
4 mins
The collapse of Chichester’s great spire
The rebuilt solid stone tower that still sways whenever the wind blows.
4 mins
The mysterious tower above Arundel
A Gothic dream, a desperate architect and a haunted tower left behind.
5 mins
The Piltdown Hoax
How a strange skull unearthed in rural Sussex fooled the scientific world for decades.
6 mins
Uckfield’s Magical Caves
Hidden in the woods, the sandstone caves and tunnels that create a mystical underworld.
6 mins
The unsolved mystery of a drowned princess
A church, a grave, and the unresolved story of King Cnut’s daughter.
5 mins
The mystery of 'The black flower seller'
A forgotten face on a Hastings postcard – and a century long mystery finally solved.
7 mins
The seaside town that was a fascist hotspot
How a rally on Worthing Pier erupted into running battles through the streets.
5 mins
The mystery of Brambletye House
A vanished family, a crumbling mansion – and questions that still linger.
5 mins
The Christmas carol born in a Sussex cottage
The carol that went from a farmhouse kitchen to choirs across the world.
6 mins
What did he see on the South Downs?
The shepherd who watched more than his flock at Firle.
7 mins
Jane Austen’s forgotten seaside retreat
How a quiet Sussex holiday shaped her final, unfinished novel – and literary history.
5 mins
The demo tape the world has never heard
Recorded in Andrew Ridgeley’s parents' lounge - now sealed in a Brighton vault.
4 mins
What lies beneath Swan Avenue
The trapdoor creaked open, and they had an astonishing surprise.
5 mins

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