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5. Secrets and Lies

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 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 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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