simonrl
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16 years ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/pip/rdsbk/ 

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Allan Beswick visits the last working inland salt mine left in Britain, 500 feet below the plains of Cheshire. He goes underground to investigate the unexpected things that reside down there, in huge empty caverns that are now being used to store archive materials.


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simonrl
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16 years ago
If you missed this it's on Listen Again, quite interesting, although rather a lot about the deep store and a bit less at the rock face.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/saltcity 


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