The Greatest Storm Timewatch : Season 22 Episode 8
BBC Two 50m
Aired: October 31st, 2003 @ 9:00 PM EST on BBC Two
In January of 1953, unusual weather conditions caused Britain's worst national peacetime disaster of the 20th century. A storm surge flooded the eastern coast of England, killing more than 300 people and leaving thousands homeless. Fifty years later, 'Timewatch' re-examines a calamity which is largely forgotten today.
