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Hello and welcome back to Epox.

Now if you remember a little while ago, looking two months ago, I'd started a series about Verdun, the Battle of Verdun.

I will be returning to that later in January, but because of scheduling reasons, Christmas and New Year, I won't bore you with the details, but because of scheduling reasons, I've got this window where I have to fill it with one episode,

but I will be returning to Verdun.

So this story I want to tell today is something I've had in mind to always do an epochs on,

but I've never really found the perfect slot for it.

So right now seems

about right to do it. It's actually a story which is the most up-to-date, most modern story. I think

I've told on epochs, the closest to the present, I mean. It's a series of events that happened

in 1980. I'm pretty sure I haven't done anything more modern than that on epochs. Let me know if I'm wrong.

Some of you guys know the back catalogue better than I do. So I want to tell the story of

Operation Nimrod, which happened in May, early May, 1980 in London. And what it is, is an S-A-S Rhode so the SAS doing stuff in London in 1980 now anyone who knows about the SAS is that they're special forces right they're soldiers it's the army. What were they doing carrying out

operations in the middle of London? Well, so that's the story I want to tell. And the

brief overview is that there's a certain part of London when there's loads and loads of

embassies in west, just west of central London.

And there was an Iranian, the Iranian embassy there, which was on a road called Prince's Gate, just near Hyde Park.

And it's a really tall sort of Georgian townhouse, three or four stories tall, very or innate building.

If you wanted to live in one of those buildings, it would cost you millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds.

And in fact, very few of them are private residences.

But in that area where there's loads and loads of different embassies, one of them is still, I believe, the Iranian embassy next door is like the Ethiopian embassy, for example. And it's like a terraced, terraced building, so a whole street of connected buildings. But each one is actually quite tall and quite deep. So they're actually quite large buildings inside. I don't necessarily look all that massive from the outside,

but there's a lot to them.

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