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Secret Sussex

Explore fascinating stories from Sussex. To share ideas or stories with the team, email secretsussex@bbc.co.uk. Series Producer: Simon Furber.

Radio Sussex,44 episodes

Episodes

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When the President visited Forest Row
Just months before his death, why did JFK visit a small Sussex village?
6 mins
When Brighton bared all
How naked bathing divided a city, shocked locals and forced a councillor to go topless.
7 mins
Strange goings-on at Chanctonbury Ring
Chilling tales and paranormal activity at the most haunted site in the South Downs.
4 mins24 Jan 2025
The amazing story of the world’s deepest well
Once they started digging in Woodingdean, they didn't stop until they found water.
8 mins17 Jan 2025
Abandoned beneath Brighton Station
A hidden space where trains pass noisily overhead.
5 mins10 Jan 2025
Lost in the snow
Something very peculiar happened when two boys got lost in the snow on Ditchling Beacon.
6 mins
Found on a doorstep in Petworth
The mysterious bundle of papers discovered just in time for Christmas.
7 mins18 Dec 2024
What did he see on the South Downs?
The shepherd who watched more than his flock at Firle.
6 mins06 Dec 2024
The strange dome hiding by the A27 roadside
Inside the eerie camouflaged building on the edge of Shoreham Airport.
5 mins
Where Christmas puddings hang from the ceiling
The Midhurst Inn stirring up a tradition more than 100 years old.
5 mins22 Nov 2024
Inside Worthing's hidden basement
Ancient maps, priceless books and a ghostly guardian.
6 mins14 Nov 2024
What happened to Uncle Percy?
Roy and his grandson Tom follow a trail to discover the truth about their missing uncle.
14 mins07 Nov 2024
Smugglers, witches, priests and ghosts
A secret tunnel, witches marks and ghostly goings on at The Six Bells in Billingshurst.
5 mins
The postcard that took 100 years to arrive
How an emotional farewell message sent in 1916 from Newhaven shocked an entire family.
10 mins
Surprising Selsey
The unlikely misfits who put the town on the map.
7 mins27 Sep 2024
Finding England’s smallest church
The tiny hidden church in the South Downs that you can only reach by foot.
6 mins20 Sep 2024
It happened on a rainy night
The tragic tale of a young couple married for just four hours.
7 mins
When Mrs Sandilands went to court
The village art project that forced Nancy to take on a bishop, MPs and bohemian artists.
20 mins05 Sep 2024
Gasbags Ahoy!
The 142 acres of land that was transformed into Polegate Airship Station.
6 mins29 Aug 2024
The man who played guitar with Bowie
A revealing glimpse into the backstage world at the greatest rock concert on Earth.
8 mins20 Aug 2024
Goring's Sistine Chapel
The stunning reproduction of the Sistine Chapel ceiling in a little-known Goring church.
8 mins14 Aug 2024
Behind closed doors at Batemans
The anguish, despair and haunting at Rudyard Kipling's house in Burwash.
18 mins07 Aug 2024
The hapless Sidlesham Snail
The railway that went from Chichester to Selsey and back in one day – if you were lucky.
8 mins23 Jul 2024
The secret work of the Newhaven ferry
How a passenger ferry service to Dieppe became a wartime hospital ship.
11 mins16 Jul 2024
The truth about the Royal Pavilion tunnels
A shortcut to the stables or a secret tunnel for a King to visit his mistress?
8 mins02 Jul 2024
The ghostly abandoned school in the woods
The harder you look, the less likely you are to find it.
8 mins20 Jun 2024
It's pretty - but what's it for?
Revealing the past of a small round brick building next to a burger van on the A27.
7 mins13 Jun 2024
Brighton’s Daddy Long Legs
The railway line that once travelled through the sea.
5 mins09 Jun 2024
The secret button to an island paradise
Behind the barbed wire lies a beautiful walk around the only island off the Sussex coast.
9 mins03 Jun 2024
Brighton’s lost live music venues
Punk music fanatic Chris Marshall takes a tour of Brighton’s lost live music venues.
5 mins22 May 2024

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