Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

The Secret Life of Reservoirs

Hermione Cockburn uncovers the historical role of dams and reservoirs in Britain

Radio 4,3 episodes

Episodes

ListGrid

Series 1
Plumbing the Landscape
Hermione Cockburn looks at two contrasting reservoirs in the Yorkshire Dales.
16 Jul 2007,30 mins
Series 1
Conservation
Hermione Cockburn visits Rutland Water in East Anglia, now an SSSI and a protected area.
23 Jul 2007,30 mins
Series 1
From Reservoir to Tap
Hermione Cockburn learns what needs to happen to water before it reaches us.
30 Jul 2007,30 mins