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2. The Man with the Rubber Face

In the summer of 1983 a Welsh fishing village and a rural police force foil an audacious international drug smuggling plot worth millions

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 an important detail: 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 second episode, the local detectives begin to close in on the gang with the help of intelligence from the observant locals. The two men already in custody reveal some strange coincidences under questioning and a third man is arrested. He鈥檚 caught after a high-speed chase that nearly ends in him falling to his death. Back at the station, he tells detectives 鈥淲hen you find out who I am you will have a very big surprise.鈥

CREDITS
Includes extracts from the book 鈥淥peration Seal Bay鈥 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 大象传媒 Sounds.

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