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World Service,16 Aug 2000,24 mins

Disaster in Waiting? Coastal flooding in England

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The most serious flooding ever to hit Britain happened in East Anglia in 1953. British geologist and hazard expert Bill McGuire explores three natural disasters of the last century and asks if history could repeat itself elsewhere? More than 300 people died in Norfolk and the Netherlands during flooding in 1953.

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