Explore fascinating stories from Northamptonshire.
Radio Northampton,·29 episodes
Inside the former Royal Ordnance Depot are several stores which are difficult to explain.
12 Oct 2026,·6 mins
How Derek Dougan defied the FA to make the Poppies the first team with a shirt sponsor.
03 Jun 2026,·7 mins
How did Lamport Hall become the home of the gnome?
13 May 2026,·8 mins
Who were the women who became farmers, foragers and "LumberJills" during WW1?
25 Mar 2026,·7 mins
An off-beat look at Northamptonshire's most unusual and iconic building.
03 Mar 2026,·12 mins
Imprisoned for colluding with would-be-assassin Anthony Babington, Mary awaits the axe.
17 Feb 2026,·9 mins
Remembering Laurel & Hardy's farewell tour, which began at the New Theatre in Northampton.
05 Feb 2026,·5 mins
Wellingborough Road’s The Model Shop has been operating since 1937.
16 Jan 2026,·8 mins
MOLA discovered remnants of England’s fourth largest Iron Age fort.
5 mins
At least three dinosaur footprint casts have been found in Irchester Country Park
02 Dec 2025,·4 mins
Looking back to 1675 for the fire that destroyed Northampton.
20 Sep 2025,·17 mins
Looking back on the US Airforce’s time in Northamptonshire.
03 Sep 2025,·7 mins
Rushden is home to the Penguin Random House UK archive, which contains 1.5 million books.
30 Jul 2025,·5 mins
Daventry’s former BBC transmission station on Borough Hill, 100 years on.
25 Jul 2025,·8 mins
The county’s shoe industry played a crucial role in Sir Edmund Hillary’s ascent in 1953.
11 Jul 2025,·4 mins
The annual fair is said to be more than 800 years-old and boasts some unusual traditions.
17 Jun 2025,·3 mins
Best known for its stop on the M1, this is a place of national importance on many levels.
30 May 2025,·11 mins
Why three is the magic number for this iconic Northamptonshire building.
23 Apr 2025,·10 mins
The remarkable and terrifying story of the building of the Harringworth-Welland viaduct.
16 Apr 2025,·10 mins
The tragic tale of Frederick Wright from Great Billing, the RMS Titanic’s squash coach.
04 Apr 2025,·6 mins
What is known about the earliest Muslim to be recorded as living in Northampton?
28 Mar 2025,·4 mins
What the depths of a Northamptonshire church tells us about medieval attitudes to death.
17 Mar 2025,·7 mins
The story of one of the first buildings to be built after the Great Fire of Northampton.
07 Mar 2025,·3 mins
How did an experiment in a Daventry field birth British radar?
26 Feb 2025,·7 mins
How was a Northamptonshire village central to the notorious Gunpowder Plot?
21 Feb 2025,·7 mins
What clues do a disused pub give to the history of one of Northampton’s oldest churches?
14 Feb 2025,·3 mins
Ronald led the Charge of the Light Brigade and his head is now preserved at Deene Park.
07 Feb 2025,·11 mins
Exploring the Northamptonshire roots of one of the chief architects of the USA.
31 Jan 2025,·10 mins
How the once monumental castle was ‘lost’ but is now being brought back to life.
31 Jan 2025,·3 mins
