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4 September 2006
4th September 2006
BBC Radio 4 Exposes SAS Training Base in the Not-So-Sleepy English Countryside!
Alan Turnbull, UK Secret Bases, www.secret-bases.co.uk
Listeners to the UK's BBC Radio 4 on the morning of Monday 4th September 2006 were spluttering over their eleven o'clock cup of tea.
A new series of "Lives in a Landscape" - a gentle documentary series in the style of "Down your Way" - kicked off with an episode devoted to a tiny village in the heart of the English countryside. It could almost be the location for Radio 4's old favourite long-running soap "The Archers".
But the show revealed that the resident "disused airfield", dating back to WWII bomber usage and also early radar development, was now home to ex-SAS special forces personnel who provide close protection and defensive driving training to people (including TV news crews) working in the world's war zones. The former SAS staff have turned freelance and formed PMCs - Private Military Companies.
The BBC production team turned to my "Secret Bases" website for assistance and I acted as consultant on the programme. You can read all my original research, listen to the radio show via media player links and view the corporate promo video of the PMC involved, all in a special section within Secret Bases Part 2:-
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/secret2.htm#SAS
I've had my Bird's Eye wings on again and here are the newest updates to www.secret-bases.co.uk (in four parts), courtesy of Windows Live Local:
Warship Support Agency (WSA) and MoD Procurement Executive (PE) at Abbey Wood, Bristol:-
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=skhk4bgsm46b&style=o&lvl=1&scene=4244162
Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) at Ensleigh near Bath:-
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sk11y2gt1xpd&style=o&lvl=1&scene=4253540
Government Pipelines and Storage System (GPSS) Defence Fuel Storage Depot at Flax Bourton, Nailsea near Bristol International Airport:-
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sk3z97gs6nmm&style=o&lvl=1&scene=4249718
Weapons processing buildings at Royal Naval Armaments Depots (RNAD) Frater and Gosport:-
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=sg3t18gx3xgx&style=o&lvl=2&scene=4332667
Alan Turnbull
UK Secret Bases