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Scotland Outdoors

Dundee's Secret Nuclear Bunker

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Rachel Stewart presents Scotland Outdoors

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0:23.4

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:33.3

Hello and thanks for choosing to listen to this.

0:36.2

I'm Rachel Stewart.

0:39.7

In this podcast, I go on a tour of a secret nuclear bunker in Dundee. Now, for many years, few people knew of its existence,

0:47.2

but the Royal Observer Corps' 28 group and sector bunker would have been on the front line

0:53.3

had there been a nuclear attack in the UK.

0:56.0

For more than a decade, a group of dedicated volunteers called 28 Group Observed

1:03.0

have been restoring it and today it's one of the most authentic nuclear bunkers of its type in the country.

1:10.0

Mike Scott and Gavin Saxby showed me round. authentic nuclear bunkers of its type in the country.

1:13.9

Mike Scott and Gavin Saxby showed me round.

1:19.4

Good morning.

1:21.7

Hello. I've come to the right place.

1:25.0

Yes, you have. This is a 28-group headquarters bunker.

1:29.3

Now, I'm very excited. I have to say, and don't take offence at this, it doesn't look particularly impressive from the outside,

1:33.3

but you tell me I'm about to be amazed.

1:35.3

Yes, you certainly are.

1:36.3

Fantastic. Well, you're going to take me on a tour, aren't you?

1:38.3

Absolutely, yes, right.

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