FACTUAL
Hidden Depths
Friday 17 March 2006 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)
Writer Andrew Smith goes deep into the lives and adventures of submariners across the generations as he encounters the People of the Abyss.
The ocean depths are the final frontier where submariners have cloaked their activities for decades. Top secret spy missions, dangerous games of cat and mouse and deep voyages of discovery that few could ever talk about.
Billions of dollars, thousands of lives and the security of nations were at stake. Now, as the Cold War under the waves recedes, the military and the scientific community combine to illuminate the abyss.
