Bervie Brow Cold War Bunker
Scotland Outdoors
BBC
4.7 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Mark Stephen meets Harry Fleming, owner of a cold war bunker on the Aberdeenshire coast. He hears the story of the bunker from the 1950s to present day
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | Hello, I've just nipped in before your BBC podcast starts to tell you all about |
| 0:09.4 | You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC |
| 0:13.9 | and presented by me, Greg Jenner. I should have told you that at the beginning. Sorry. |
| 0:17.9 | Anyway, like many other BBC podcasts, such as Desert Island Discs, Evil Genius, or In Our Time, your dead to me is available first on BBC Sounds, |
| 0:26.3 | a whole month earlier than anywhere else, in fact. So if you can't wait another day to hear |
| 0:31.2 | the very latest in history and loads of other good stuff, then listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.0 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
| 0:46.5 | Hello, thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Mark Stephen. |
| 0:50.4 | The Cold War was a very funny period of a history, |
| 0:53.2 | and for some reason, with global events at the moment moment it seems to be getting closer rather than further away. |
| 0:59.8 | There are all sorts of installations dotted about the countryside which to be honest nine times out of ten you would have no idea they were there at all. |
| 1:08.4 | Ten years ago the guard and bunkhouse of what was a Cold War Raiders station |
| 1:13.9 | was bought by an architectural historian and designer called Harry Fleming. Now, to say this |
| 1:19.9 | station is a fascinating place is a complete understatement and what Harry's doing with it is |
| 1:25.6 | absolutely intriguing. He very kindly showed me round. |
| 1:29.3 | So welcome to what used to be RAF in Verbervie and is now the Burvey Brough Research Station. |
| 1:35.3 | So we're standing right on the top of Burvey Brow which actually is one of the highest coastal hills |
| 1:42.3 | in this stretch of northeast Scotland. |
| 1:45.0 | We're looking out over the sea. |
| 1:48.0 | The project was called Project Rotor, |
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