BFBS Radio Sitrep

PRESENTER TIM COLLINS     SITREP TRAIL THURS, 19th November     After the Paris terror attacks - how can we beat ISIS and if we do, how will we manage the peace?   Find out what’s likely to be in next week’s Defence and Security Review .   Could cyber-attacks bring Britain to a standstill inside three days?   and why the biggest long term threat is climate change.

PRESENTER KATE GERBEAU   SITREP TRAIL THURS, 5th   November   After four years of war in Syria can this weekend’s Vienna talks bring hope? The Defence Review – are we about to find out who gets what and how much it'll cost. Is the Chancellor trying to hi-jack Trident from the MoD? Why the Cyber geeks in Southampton could be potential recruits for GCHQ. And, Inside the Glasshouse - what's life really like inside Colchester's military prison?

PRESENTER KATE GERBEAU   SITREP TRAIL THURS, 5th   November   Terror in Sinai, was it a bomb that bought the plane down?   Will the Commons ever hold a vote to go into Syria?   What’s in the Snooper’ Charter and how will affect British Forces?   And, why a former Army Chief says the NHS should be spending more money on mental health.  

Sitrep speaks to NATO's Secretary General about Russia, Syria and Ukraine. How anti-extremists are hoping to stop radicalisation through the arts. What HMS Ocean is doing on Exercise Trident Juncture in the Mediterranean Sea. The Commando Doctor who is making Battlefield Medicine work in peacetime. And MI5 tells us why our emails have to be bugged.     PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Paula Middlehurst Studio guest: Christopher Lee & Russia Analyst Martin McCauley   OTHER INTERVIEWS:   NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg BFBS reporter James Hirst   Nato, Russia & Syria Russia Analyst Martin McCauley as well as our own defence analyst Christopher Lee   NATO Exercise Trident Juncture Commander of the helicopter carrier, assault ship and Royal Navy Flagship, HMS Ocean.     Countering radicalisation through the arts Nazish Khan i- Quilliam's Arts Practitioner/Researcher   World Extreme Medicine Conference Surgeon Commander Dr Jamie Philips   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.

SITREP TRAIL THURS, 22nd October (TIM COOPER presenting)   This week in Sitrep - The story of migrants in Cyprus, Cyber security fears behind the Chinese deal to build the UK's new Nuclear power station. The United Nations is 70 years old on Saturday - but do we expect too much? NATO's biggest exercise in ten years takes to Land, Sea and Air. But who's the enemy? Plus The Paras get their Pegasus back and what it takes to be a poppy seller.

SITREP TRAIL THURS, 15th October (Kate Gerbeau presenting)   American troops are to stay longer in Afghanistan as the security situation gets worse. In Syria – the USA and Russia talk airspace while Lord Robertson says Britain should carry out airstrikes there. Israel, is another Gaza war on the way? And Trident - the SNP say it must still go.

SITREP TRAIL THURS, 8th October (Kate Gerbeau presenting)   Nato demands Russia to stop its Syrian operation- but will they take any notice? And, as tensions rise in Europe, the UK is sending troops to the Baltics Why America must rethink total withdrawal plans in Afghanistan, Sitrep speaks to the journalist that went to see one of America’s most wanted in Moscow Plus: Rugby - England are out but Britain's defence forces scrum down for triumph.

  SITREP TRAIL THURS, 24th September   Find out what needs to happen in the next Defence Review to make our Forces more efficient.   America and Russia go head to head on what happens next in Syria,   Plus, British troops teaching the Kurds how to beat IS and get streetwise,   And 75 years of the George Cross - the people's decoration.    PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Kate GerbeauSTUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS:    DEFENCE POLICYRichard Norton Taylor who writes for The Guardian on defence and security,   SYRIA/PUTIN/UNProfessor Joshua Landis from the Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma   PESHMERGA BFBS presenter Charlene Guy speaking to some of the soldiers who have been working on the ground in Iraq, training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.   GEORGE CROSS 75TH ANNIVERSARYBFBS reporter Claire Sadler   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 0211Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep Podcast.      

Presenter Kate Gerbeau   SITREP TRAIL THURS, 17th September   Why the man at the top of MI5 has spoken publicly about why they need to read our emails. Frederick Forsyth tells Sitrep why he’s backing the campaign to clear the guilty Royal Marine. Plus the best of the new defence innovations at the DSEI exhibition And the Battle of Britain remembered:     PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Kate Gerbeau STUDIO GUEST:           BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS:    MI5 BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee   MARINE A Best-selling author Frederick Forsyth   DSEI Will Inglis reporting on the A400M   PLUS INTERVIEW ON THE FOLLOWING   Dr Markus Jung head of Rheinmetal's Direct Energy Weapon Programme, discussing their new laser gun   BAe Systems,head of Cyber Threat Intelligence, Adrian Nish.   Swiss Company RUAG discussing its new ‘snipers’ bullet.   BATTLE OF BRITAIN 75TH ANNIVERSARY   BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee