BBC 1 "Here and Now" show aired 21 APR 1997 AT 1830 UTC.
BBC 1 produced a sort of consumer-based show called "Here and Now", where viewers could have a BBC team investigate their problem. Items usually dealt with were rogue plumbers, dodgy car dealers and so on. The original Yorkshire based ENIGMA group contacted the BBC and asked if they would investigate the number station phenomenon. Surprisingly they took up the challenge and got the late Radio 1 producer John Walters to investigate. Hear the show ---> Here and now.wma


BBC presenter Sue Lawley starts the show. 


BBC investigator John Walters.


John Walters meets his fake contact.


In a clich�d "Mission Impossible" spoof, Walters listens to a self destructing tape recording.


Wartime radio monitor copying coded transmissions.


Another wartime transmission is sent via voice mode.


ENIGMA HQ and my reflection!


Mike Gaufman of ENIGMA group talking with John Walters.


Chris Midgley copies down a transmission.


Chris copying numbers.


Changing frequency.


John Walters in ENIGMA HQ.


Chris Midgley.


Chris at "RAF" Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire.


Log periodic antenna.


Walters in a futile attempt to get Government big wigs to discuss the subject.


What a surprise!


Just to rub it in.


Walters meets spy writer Nigel West.


Nigel West.


Walters goes to Cambridge University to gatecrash on Oleg Gordievsky's lecture.


Cambridge lecture theatre.


Walters asks ex-KGB spy Oleg Gordievsky about number stations.


Oleg Gordievsky.


Spectrum analyser in Akin Fernandez's Irdial studio.


Akin Fernandez and colleague in Irdial studio.


Spectrum analyser in Akin Fernandez's Irdial studio.


Akin Fernandez 


Akin Fernandez and colleague in Irdial studio.


End sequence.