Remembrance Centre for the Floods of 1953". Books, films and music The composition Requiem Aeternam 1953 by Douwe Eisenga was written as a commemoration of the flood. The composition Noye's Fludde of 1958 by Benjamin Britten evokes the memory of the North Sea flood. The Dutch public broadcasting foundation has made numerous documentaries about the North Sea Flood. Two have been adapted as English versions: The Greatest Storm and 1953, the Year of the Beast. BBC Timewatch made a documentary about the North Sea flood of 1953, called The Greatest Storm. BBC Radio Four broadcast in 2023 an account of the flood and lessons learned, such as the Thames Barrier: An episode of the ITV series Savage Planet featured the flood. The 1953 floods were mentioned in detail in the drama film Flood (2007). In 2009 a Dutch action drama titled De Storm (The Storm) was released. The book The Little Ark by Jan de Hartog, published in 1953, depicted the flood. It was adapted as a film by the same name in 1972. The short story "The Netherlands Lives with Water", by Jim Shepard, contains a passage describing the event. The 1976 book Oosterschelde, windkracht 10, by Jan Terlouw is the story of the flood in Zeeland, Netherlands. The first part describes the storm, while the second part describes the later conflicts about constructing the Delta Works. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop (1978), set in Suffolk in 1959, makes many references back to the 1953 flooding. The 2012 non-fiction book, The Sugar Girls, by Duncan Barrett and Nuala Calvi, describes the effects of the flood in East London, and on workers at Tate & Lyle's East End factories. The flood and its effect upon the coastal town of Lowestoft is the subject matter of a painting by British artist Mark Burrell. 'The Great Tide' by Hilda Grieve (published 1959) gives a detailed description of every aspect of the flood in Essex. The author was an experienced historian, commissioned by the Essex County Council. See also Flood control in the Netherlands Floods in the Netherlands Inundation of Walcheren Lists of disasters List of floods in Europe List of natural disasters in the British Isles List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll North Sea flood of 1962 North Sea flood of 2007 North Sea flood of 2013 Radio Amateurs Emergency Network Storm tides of the North Sea References