1953
Floods - share your memories with your BBC Local Radio station
On
the 31st of January 1953, freak weather conditions conspired to
cause Britain's worst natural disaster of the 20th century.
That
Saturday night a storm surge inundated the East Coast of England,
from Yorkshire to Lincolnshire. Over 300 people lost their lives
in the floods.
Fifty
years on, BBC Local Radio in East Anglia will be remembering the
tragic events of that night and asking whether it could happen again?
From
7.00 to 10.00pm on Friday 31 January, BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio
Suffolk and BBC Essex will come together for the BBC East Flood
Night.
Throughout
the evening the telephone lines will be open for listeners to share
their memories of the 1953 Floods and debate the threat to our coast
in the future.
Joining
presenter Stewart White in the studio will be:
Professor
Andrew Watkinson, an ecologist from the University of East Anglia
and the Manager of Research Theme 4, "Sustaining the Coastal
Zone" at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research;
Jim
Bacon, a meteorologist and Managing Director of Weather Quest;
Jonathan
Wortley - Eastern Area Flood Defence Manager for the Environment
Agency of England & Wales.
Also
taking part are Professor Philip Stott who is sceptical about climate
change, Dr John Bowers, Environmental Economist from the University
of Leeds and Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of the Environment
Agency for England & Wales.
To
contact BBC East Flood Night, email: floodnight@bbc.co.uk
and on the night telephone 01603 617321 or Text Message 07786 200951.
Notes
to Editors
BBC
Essex remembers the 1953 flood disaster (27.01.03)
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