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Secret Buckinghamshire

Explore fascinating stories from Buckinghamshire.

Three Counties Radio,8 episodes

Episodes

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How The Point brought us the US cinema experience
The new-style multiplex movie house opened in Milton Keynes in November 1985.
24 Nov 2025,4 mins
How the James Bond car came from Bucks
Aston Martin has been based in Newport Pagnell for 70 years.
21 Oct 2025,5 mins
When Superman ‘dangled’ over Milton Keynes
How did Christopher Reeve end up suspended above a Buckinghamshire train station?
15 Jul 2025,5 mins
Codebreaker’s historic papers saved from shredder
Alan Turing led the codebreaking effort at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
26 Jun 2025,5 mins
The gift which embodied the ‘magic’ of Roald Dahl
Australian children gave the Bucks author an opal after he spoke to their class.
02 May 2025,4 mins
Ready, steady, flip! The Olney Pancake Race
The Buckinghamshire town of Olney is home to the world’s ‘oldest’ pancake race.
04 Mar 2025,3 mins
Recreating Roald Dahl’s writing hut
How an Oscar-winning film recreated the storyteller’s Great Missenden writing hut.
04 Dec 2024,4 mins
Underground and unexplained in Aylesbury
Beneath the Discover Bucks museum in Aylesbury is a world of unusual occurrences.
14 Nov 2024,9 mins