Inside the Bomb Squad
Season 1 Episode 1 of 4
Documentary following the work of the British Army soldiers who defuse bombs in the UK, providing an insight into the training they receive at 'Bomb School' in Bicester. Sergeant Alex 'Swansea' Hughes is called out at night to a woodland near Clitheroe, where a dog walker has found an explosive dating back to the Second World War. Swansea must make it safe by taking it to a large open field and blowing it up. Sergeant Sam Jones - a veteran of Afghanistan - has seen a spike in the number of calls the bomb squad receive in the UK due to the craze of magnet fishing. Treasure hunters hurl large industrial weights into lakes and canals but often get more than they bargained for, pulling out all manner of potentially deadly explosives including mortar bombs and hand grenades, with one man causing a major incident by disposing of a grenade in a dustbin on the industrial estate where he works