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Secret Lincolnshire

Explore fascinating stories from Lincolnshire.

Radio Lincolnshire,67 episodes

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Crying Christmas: Lincoln's lost festive tradition
A mayoral band would 'cry' the start of Christmas.
22 Dec 2025,6 mins
Lawrence of Arabia: From the desert to Lincolnshire
After WWI he came to RAF Cranwell to escape fame.
12 Dec 2025,8 mins
75 Years of BRM: Lincolnshire's pioneering F1 team
Part 3: A lasting British motorsport legacy
29 Nov 2025,9 mins
75 Years of BRM: Lincolnshire's pioneering F1 team
Part 2: Hill, Stewart and the golden years
29 Nov 2025,10 mins
75 years of BRM: Lincolnshire's pioneering F1 team
Part 1: From Bourne to the World Championship
28 Nov 2025,10 mins
Aleen Cust: Britain's first female vet
She had links to a famous Lincolnshire family.
21 Nov 2025,9 mins
The Grimsby Imp: a tale of mischief and stone
A stone imp in a minster - but not that one.
14 Nov 2025,5 mins
Just Jane: Fred and Harold's flying memorial dream
It's hoped the Lancaster will return to the skies.
07 Nov 2025,10 mins
Byard's Leap: How a horse defeated a witch
Lincolnshire’s enduring myth of a witch, a knight and a horse’s leap.
30 Oct 2025,4 mins
Joseph Banks' voyage of scientific discovery
He sailed on Captain Cook's voyage to Australia.
24 Oct 2025,8 mins
Emily Langton Massingberd: Pre-feminist icon
She pre-dated the Suffragette movement by decades.
17 Oct 2025,6 mins
Crowle’s Peatland Railway: Rebuilding the past
Crowle’s Peatland Railway revives lost moorland history through restored tramways.
08 Oct 2025,5 mins
Barton's lost bike empire
From a small blacksmith’s shop to a worldwide exporter of his own manufactured bicycles.
24 Sep 2025,7 mins
"Flying with the souls of 55,000 on our shoulders"
Sqn Ldr Paul 'Ernie' Wise flies the BBMF Lancaster.
19 Sep 2025,7 mins
Calendar Boys: Part 2 - Baring all in Lincoln
A group of Lincoln women struggle to get a nude male calendar printed.
12 Sep 2025,8 mins
Calendar Boys: Part 1 - "Liberated sexmongers"
A nude male calendar is made in Lincoln in the 70s.
12 Sep 2025,9 mins
The village chapel and the naked rock star
The Lincolnshire chapel that shaped music history.
23 Aug 2025,9 mins
Why did Henry VIII hate Lincolnshire?
Henry VIII’s church raids sparked fury and in Lincolnshire there was outrage.
20 Aug 2025,5 mins
Cleethorpes Victorian waiting room restored
Once a railway waiting room, Cleethorpes' Mermaid Café dates back to 1874.
12 Aug 2025,5 mins
Model engineering society celebrates 90 years
The Grimsby and Cleethorpes Model Engineering Society was founded in 1935 by three men.
23 Jul 2025,4 mins
Grimsby's iconic Dock Tower
Lara King gets a tour around Grimsby’s Dock Tower with ABP’s Emma Lingard.
17 Jul 2025,10 mins
An evacuee’s wartime childhood in Lincolnshire
“Finding the manuscript was rather like opening up a time capsule to the past”
09 Jul 2025,7 mins
The day JFK flew in to Lincolnshire
The US president was on a tour of Western Europe.
27 Jun 2025,8 mins
The tale of Tiddy Mun the Lincolnshire bog spirit
Tiddy Mun is almost invisible as he weaves through the watery landscape.
18 Jun 2025,5 mins
The legend of the Wild Man of Stainfield
Dangerous and to be feared. All who knew, were told to keep away from the wild man.
11 Jun 2025,5 mins
She paved the way for all women police officers
Edith Smith from Grantham was the first police woman to be given the power of arrest.
04 Jun 2025,12 mins
The remarkable life of Boston’s Herbert Ingram
His story spans over 200 years with a surprise find returning to his hometown.
23 May 2025,8 mins
Bardney Abbey: Oswald and the shaft of light
Legend says monks turned away the king's relics.
14 May 2025,7 mins
The day Guy Gibson came to breakfast
He was invited in by Kit's family while on exercise.
05 May 2025,9 mins
Exploring Grimsby's Victorian Underbelly
Social Historian Carla Linford tells colourful stories the town's Victorian characters.
30 Apr 2025,6 mins,