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Secret BuckinghamshireEpisodes

  1. When Superman ‘dangled’ over Milton Keynes

    How did Christopher Reeve end up suspended above a Buckinghamshire train station?

  2. Underground and unexplained in Aylesbury

    Beneath the Discover Bucks museum in Aylesbury is a world of unusual occurrences.

  3. The gift which embodied the ‘magic’ of Roald Dahl

    Australian children gave the Bucks author an opal after he spoke to their class.

  4. Recreating Roald Dahl’s writing hut

    How an Oscar-winning film recreated the storyteller’s Great Missenden writing hut.

  5. Ready, steady, flip! The Olney Pancake Race

    The Buckinghamshire town of Olney is home to the world’s ‘oldest’ pancake race.

  6. How The Point brought us the US cinema experience

    The new-style multiplex movie house opened in Milton Keynes in November 1985.

  7. How the James Bond car came from Bucks

    Aston Martin has been based in Newport Pagnell for 70 years.

  8. Codebreaker’s historic papers saved from shredder

    Alan Turing led the codebreaking effort at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.