Explore fascinating stories from Somerset.
Radio Somerset,·34 episodes
The best of our Secret Somerset series from 2024.
The ghost of Mrs Portman has been spotted in the historic house by visitors.
The rifle group is thought to have started in the Victorian times.
The family-run furniture shop was established in 1944.
A hanging tree once stood between Tesco and B&Q in the town.
Volunteers have spent five years reproducing Roman designs at Avalon Archaeology.
How a 16th century bell that chimed in Upton ended up in an rainforest wedding chapel.
The Wells Cathedral library securely holds books, published before the 1800s, in chains.
Arturo Fanconi from Ilminster was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal for saving lives.
Chard's James Gillingham found his calling after a local man was injured in an accident.
Julian Cox was the last person to be executed in Taunton for witchcraft in 1663.
It’s said Stuckey’s banknotes had a circulation second only to the Bank of England.
A ghost, a bishop and mysterious shipwrecks around Minehead harbour.
A radar station and archaeological remains can be found on the North Hill site.
The story of Yeovilton’s Concorde at the Fleet Air Arm Museum.
A president, a spy and a tragic ghost – the history of The Royal Oak in Withypool.
The town's oldest listed domestic building is now a café.
The author first visited the picturesque area of Somerset on his honeymoon in 1916.
Mark Whitcomb and the Furman sisters are remembered at the Mendip Hospital Cemetery.
The cemetery is the final resting place for inmates and staff from the asylum.
Lights and fires were used to trick German bombers into thinking they’d reached Bristol.
Quantock Lodge was built in the 1800s for the-then MP of Taunton, Henry Labouchere.
Discover the role the South West’s airfields played in D-Day.
Exploring the caves and the legend of the witch of Wookey Hole.
The Bakery in West Camel no longer sits on the A303 due to the new road layout.
The Exmoor village was abandoned more than a hundred years ago.
The story and history of a 16th Century Inn owned by a couple for the past 35 years.
The George and Pilgrims Inn claims to be the oldest purpose-built pub in the South West
The legend of the Gurt Worm on the Quantocks.
A new digital trail tells the dark stories of Cheddar and the Mendips.
