Britain's Big Freeze

First Broadcast: 8PM Mon 25 January 2010

Britain's Big Freeze examines the freezing winter of early 2010, meeting experts and eyewitnesses, revealing dramatic stories from the news and from individuals, and looking at the big freezes of 1947, 1963 and February 2009: just how does 2010 compare?

The documentary asks what has happened, why has it happened, what have the consequences been, and should we expect these conditions in British winters to come?

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    1. Mon 25 Jan 2010

      Britain's Big Freeze examines the freezing winter of early 2010, meeting experts and eyewitnesses, revealing dramatic…

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