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3. The Man in the Safari Suit

In 1983 a Welsh fishing village and a rural police force foiled an audacious international drug smuggling plot worth millions

In 1983 a sleepy Pembrokeshire fishing village 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 coastline of West Wales. But the smugglers overlooked one important thing: the inquisitive locals and dogged rural detectives who hunt them down.

The investigation 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 third episode, with three suspects now in custody but the cannabis still missing, the detectives are in a race against time to prove the drugs smuggle is real. It’s an adventure that will lead them to a Rolls Royce driving cocaine dealer, mansions with buried treasure and the discovery of a yacht with a colourful history.

CREDITS
Includes extracts from the book β€œOperation 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds.

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42 minutes

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