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Derailed: The Story of HS2: 9. You Can Do One
Season 6 Episode 9
The arrival of Rishi Sunak in Downing Street revived the hopes of those who wanted to see HS2 cancelled entirely. One leg - to Leeds - had already be…
11 months, 1 week ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 8. Help I’m Under a Digger
Season 6 Episode 8
After successfully defeating a number of fracking projects, a wave of hardened environmentalists join the anti-HS2 protest movement. Locking themselv…
11 months, 1 week ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 7. Gold Plated
Season 6 Episode 7
Costs began to truly spiral out of control. In search of the culprit, Kate goes through the mess HS2 made of some its largest contracts. Much of HS2 …
11 months, 1 week ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 6. The Only Friend that Mattered
Season 6 Episode 6
Revelations about waste and delay have left HS2 in poor shape - and ripe, in the view of its political opponents, for cancellation. But, at the oppor…
11 months, 1 week ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 5. Worry About the Detail Later
Season 6 Episode 5
As HS2 began the process of lining up land along its route for purchase, individuals within the team became deeply concerned. They feared that HS2 wa…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 4. Well Done Geoffrey
Season 6 Episode 4
To deal with the growing opposition, the government resolved to commit to HS2 by way of a hybrid bill, which would open up opportunities for local co…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 3. That can’t be right
Season 6 Episode 3
As specific plans for HS2 were announced, protestors quickly sprang into action, forming campaigning groups and arguing for the line to be fundamenta…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 2. Mutually assured exaggeration
Season 6 Episode 2
As the designs for HS2 took shape, the new team behind it set out to prove its value to Ministers and MPs. But as Kate hears, long term flaws were be…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: 1. The Railwayman
Season 6 Episode 1
Kate meets Andrew McNaughton, the man who, in 2009, was given the task of sitting down with a blank piece of paper and designing a new high speed rai…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Derailed: The Story of HS2: Trailer
Season 6 Episode 1
Kate Lamble investigates the extraordinary inside story of Britain's most ambitious and controversial rail project. Listen first on BBC Sounds from …
11 months, 3 weeks ago