*** TIM COOPER PRESENTS TODAY ***
SITREP TRAIL THURS, 27th October
NATO expresses concern at Russian aggression and the UK is deploying more forces to eastern Europe – what’s the significance of the latest announcements?
Iraqi forces continue to push towards Mosul - but what will happen after the city is retaken?
The met office celebrates 100 years of military weather forecasting …..
And Ian Hislop speaks about his play based on a newspaper created by soldiers at the Battle of the Somme.
PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Tim Cooper
Studio guest: BFBS Defence Analyst Christopher Lee
NATO BALTICS
Tony King, Professor in War Studies at the University of Warwick
UKRAINE
or Andrew Foxall is Director of the Russia Studies Centre at The Henry Jackson Society
MOSUL
Dr Lina Khatib - Head of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House
MET OFFICE
Catherine Ross, Archivist at the Met Office
WIPERS TIMES
Ian Hislop
THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2 and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases
You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum)
Sky Channel 0211
Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep Podcast.