Lucie Green looks back through Britain's most dramatic weather history and sees how our reactions helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict the worst extremes.
If you think Britain has recently been on the end of some of the worst floods and storms ever experienced, think again. So says solar scientist Dr Lucie Green, as she takes a journey back through our most turbulent and dramatic weather history.
She finds an 18th-century storm surge that killed over a thousand people working in open Somerset fields, a hurricane that drowned a fifth of the British Navy and winters so bitter that the country came close to total shutdown. But she also explores how our reactions to killer storms and cruel winters helped forge a weather science that today allows us to predict - and protect ourselves from - the worst extremes.
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Beating the ice in London
Duration: 02:00
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The 'Great Storm of 1703'
Duration: 03:07
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A history of killer storms
Duration: 01:36
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00:49Hot Chocolate
You Sexy Thing
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Lucie Green |
| Producer | Tom Cholmondeley |
| Director | Tom Cholmondeley |
| Executive Producer | Michael Poole |
Broadcasts
- Mon 28 Jul 2014 21:00
- Tue 29 Jul 2014 02:50
- Thu 31 Jul 2014 22:45
- Sun 10 Jan 2021 21:00
- Mon 11 Jan 2021 02:50
- Tue 4 Jan 2022 21:00
- Wed 5 Jan 2022 01:50
- Mon 23 Jan 2023 21:00
- Sun 29 Jan 2023 01:25
- Sat 23 Dec 2023 20:00
- Christmas Eve 2023 02:15