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Secret LeicestershireEpisodes Available now
The hidden history of Loughborough’s Old Rectory
From it’s medieval underbelly, to the ghosts and ‘haunted’ piano that call it home
Lady Rolleston and the street boys from Leicester
A Leicester woman's vision that still drives the local charity she started
The Bilstone Gibbet Post: The Gruesome Truth
One wooden post and it's connection to an infamous murder in 1801
The woman who gave birth to a cat
A mysterious birth and a story of solidarity
Is this where Chaucer tied the knot?
Why historians think the English Poet Geoffrey Chaucer may have got married in Leicester
Forkbeard or Cnut: Viking king buried at church
The Viking cross at Sproxton and its links to the Anglo-Norse monarchy
The 450-year-old love story in Sign Language
The first recorded use of sign language in England at Leicester Cathedral
The Leicester Balloon Riot of 1864
How did a huge hydrogen balloon cause a riot and chaos in Victoria Park?
Action Man and the Unexploded Bomb!
The Coalville toy factory that created Action Man and was almost blow up
The Green Dragon Inn: an infamous murder
16th May 1978 – a notorious day in Leicester’s history
