Summary
It’s 1976, the UK is in the grip of a gruelling heatwave and fresh-faced detective, Steve Bentley is about to go undercover in a rural village in mid Wales. It’s his first undercover gig, part of a massive national operation called Operation Julie and Steve’s excited but wholly unprepared for the toll this job will take.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. |
| 0:04.7 | Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon, and I make podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. |
| 0:11.4 | But when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. |
| 0:15.4 | I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds could take you into |
| 0:19.2 | a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to |
| 0:25.2 | give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole |
| 0:30.0 | new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories |
| 0:34.2 | that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:40.8 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome back to life-changing. Now, at some point |
| 0:48.0 | in all our lives, I guess we've all wished for, I don't know, a few more thrills, a bit of |
| 0:52.6 | additional excitement. Well, my guest today |
| 0:55.2 | was offered just that, and it's fair to say he went for it wholeheartedly. The experience would |
| 1:01.0 | change him forever, but not perhaps in the way he might have expected. It actually led to a whole |
| 1:06.9 | series of life challenges. Steve Bentley is his name, that's his real name, |
| 1:11.4 | and his story begins in the 1970s. |
| 1:14.5 | Now, at this point, Steve has been a police officer |
| 1:16.6 | for a couple of years and he's done okay. |
| 1:19.0 | He's a detective working in Hampshire. |
| 1:21.4 | And as he describes himself, |
| 1:22.9 | he's then a pretty conventional, |
| 1:25.1 | no-nonsense sort of a bloke. |
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