Anita’s East Coast Road Trip: Orford Ness

The final stop on Anita’s east coast road trip is the mysterious Orford Ness in Suffolk. Once a top-secret military testing facility, this ten-mile shingle spit is now one of Britain's most important protected coastal landscapes, where former military buildings provide nesting sites for seabirds.

Anita explores the abandoned military complex to uncover Orford Ness's secretive past and discovers how a landscape once shaped by weapons testing has been reclaimed by wildlife. She also meets an artist inspired to write an album about Orford Ness’s fascinating past and its wildlife.

Along the way, Anita looks back through the Countryfile archives at the communities exposed to the sea and how nature can stage a comeback.