FACTUAL
Hidden Depths
Wednesday 4 October 2006 23:30-0:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Writer Andrew Smith goes deep into the lives and adventures of submariners across the generations.
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 recede, the military and the scientific community combine to illuminate the abyss.
