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Coast: Series 5 (Shortened Versions): Bawdsey Manor

17/12/2014

Bawdsey Manor

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Alice Roberts visits Bawdsey Manor, where Britain's first radar station was built.

Alice Roberts visits Bawdsey Manor, where Britain's first radar station was built, to meet two women posted there during the war to operate the early warning system.

On the shingle bank at Orford Ness, Alice Roberts leads a team trying to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work. 

Alice visits Bawdsey Manor, where the first British radar station was built, to meet two women posted there during the war to operate the early warning system. It was 'hush-hush' work that they kept completely secret - even from close family.

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