In 1983 a sleepy fishing village in West Wales became the unlikely setting for an audacious drug smuggling plot worth millions of pounds. A gang of international drug runners planned to traffic tonnes of cannabis via the remote Pembrokeshire coastline. But the smugglers overlooked the inquisitive locals and dogged rural detectives who hunt them down.

What begins as a rural investigation eventually leads the local police on an international adventure involving speed boats, supercars with hidden panels, mansions with buried treasure and a cast of eccentric characters. Told by the people who were there, this is the story of how a small Welsh community and a local police force came together to take on an international drugs ring.

In this fifth episode, the Welsh detectives are in a race against time to track down the last member of the smuggling gang before the court case begins.

CREDITS

Includes extracts from the book “Operation Seal Bay” by Pat Molloy

Narrator: Hannah Daniel

Producer and Editor: James Hale

Executive Producer: Steve Robinson

Researcher: Tane Rogers-Eirug

Music and Sound Design: James Hale

Additional Musicians: Lowri Mair Jones and Mark Foley

Actors: Llinor ap Gwynedd, Aneirin Hughes, John Rowley, Gruff Harries and Scheiffer Bates

Additional Mixing & Mastering: Hoot Studios

A Lazerbeam production for BBC Sounds

Folgen-ID: 1000680931503

GUID: urn:bbc:podcast:p0kcw72n

Erscheinungs­datum: 19.12.2024, 07:00:00