Emergency underground BBC wartime studios in Bristol explored

27 October 2011 Last updated at 16:24 ET Help

Seventy years ago, as the Blitz began in London, the BBC set up an emergency studio deep inside the Clifton Rocks Railway.

Had Broadcasting House been hit by a bomb, the Bristol studio would have been the only way to keep the Home Service on air.

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