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Explore fascinating stories from Devon.
Radio Devon,·136 episodes
8. The play
The radio play of Christian Michell’s wartime script.
05 Jun 2024,·22 mins
7. Preserving the legacy
The people and the places preserving the history of this story.
05 Jun 2024,·12 mins
6. Voices of the evacuation
The voices of local people who experienced the evacuation.
03 Jun 2024,·12 mins
5. The community returns
The community returns and the play reappears.
03 Jun 2024,·10 mins
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.
03 Jun 2024,·11 mins
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
Over Here - The American GIs in WW2 Devon
Love, segregation and military manoeuvres in wartime Devon with Dr Harry Bennett
19 Sep 2018,·24 mins
Joanna Southcott - The Exeter Prophetess
The Devon domestic servant who had a cult following of more than a hundred thousand.
11 Oct 2018,·16 mins
Wounded In Action - Devon's WW1 Hospitals
Turning 66 sites across Devon into functioning wartime hospitals with Dr Julia Neville.
02 Nov 2018,·19 mins
Behind Enemy Lines - a WW2 story of love, espionage and tragedy
Devon author Chris Robillard with a tale of spies killed behind enemy lines.
22 Nov 2018,·17 mins
Fairies, Demons and Folk Medicine – Devon’s Male Witch
Professor Marion Gibson from the University of Exeter on John Walsh - a 1500s Witch
07 Dec 2018,·20 mins
A Less Than Dickensian Devon Christmas
Dr Todd Gray on the demeaning practice of "gooding" in 1870s rural Devon.
20 Dec 2018,·18 mins
Devon's Fortune Fabric - Mrs Treadwin's Lace Manufactory
RAMM volunteers Liz Trebble and Carol McFadzean on lace livelihoods, royalty & smuggling,
15 Jan 2019,·20 mins
Margaret Partridge - The powerhouse who built powerhouses
The story of a pioneering Devon electrical engineer.
06 Mar 2019,·17 mins
