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Essex,03 Feb 2026,8 mins

Britain's deadliest footpath

Secret Essex

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Essex has more than 30 islands along its nearly 350 miles of coastline, but none of them are quite like Foulness near Southend, which is owned by the Ministry of Defence and used for top-secret weapons testing. Narrator: Jodie Halford. Producer: Mark Hardie. Sound Recordist: John Fairhall. With special thanks to Kev Brown. Picture credit: John Fairhall/BBC. Archive: 1) The Secret Island: Foulness. Sunday 1 March 1970. 2) Tonight: Foulness Island. Thursday 15 Apr 1965.

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