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'The Great Escape' recreated

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A team of archaeologists and engineers have recreated the tunnels used in The Great Escape from Germany's infamous Stalag Luft III POW camp near Zagan in Poland.

Dr Hugh Hunt, a structural engineer at Cambridge University, explains how.


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