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Document: 4: The Secrets of the Icewhale

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The Sony Award-winning investigative history series unearths another document that sheds new light on past events.

Mike Thomson examines the historic links between an experimental trials vessel called the Icewhale, a specially adapted Canberra Bomber plane, a toilet seat at Porton Down, a powder puff on the Underground and thousands of weather balloons that floated mysteriously over Britain during the Cold War.

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Presenter:
Mike Thomson
Producer:
Jane Ray
Source: Radio Times

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