BBC Radio Podcasts from Secret Devon
8. The play
The radio play of Christian Michell’s wartime script.
7. Preserving the legacy
The people and the places preserving the history of this story.
6. Voices of the evacuation
The voices of local people who experienced the evacuation.
5. The community returns
The community returns and the play reappears.
4. Sacrifice on the home front
The home front story and the military machine.
3. Fact and fiction
The search for the fact and the fiction of Red Earth.
2. Inspiration for a play
The inspiration for a play and the witness to the story.
1. A lost play and a forgotten writer
The discovery of a lost play and a forgotten writer
Margaret Partridge - The powerhouse who built powerhouses
The story of a pioneering Devon electrical engineer.
Devon's Fortune Fabric - Mrs Treadwin's Lace Manufactory
RAMM volunteers Liz Trebble and Carol McFadzean on lace livelihoods, royalty & smuggling,
A Less Than Dickensian Devon Christmas
Dr Todd Gray on the demeaning practice of "gooding" in 1870s rural Devon.
Fairies, Demons and Folk Medicine – Devon’s Male Witch
Professor Marion Gibson from the University of Exeter on John Walsh - a 1500s Witch
Behind Enemy Lines - a WW2 story of love, espionage and tragedy
Devon author Chris Robillard with a tale of spies killed behind enemy lines.
Wounded In Action - Devon's WW1 Hospitals
Turning 66 sites across Devon into functioning wartime hospitals with Dr Julia Neville.
Joanna Southcott - The Exeter Prophetess
The Devon domestic servant who had a cult following of more than a hundred thousand.
Over Here - The American GIs in WW2 Devon
Love, segregation and military manoeuvres in wartime Devon with Dr Harry Bennett