The Brighton Bomb: 2. The Man Who Wasn't Walsh
A man going by the name of Roy Walsh has left a bomb behind the bath in the Brighton Grand Hotel. Who is he?
The clock – the long-delay timer – nobody is meant to hear is counting down to 2.54am on the 12th October, 1984.
It's attached to a bomb, behind the panel of the bath of Room 629 in Brighton’s Grand Hotel, left there by a man who signed in as Roy Walsh.
Except he's not Roy Walsh.
Who is the man using his name? And how did he go from a childhood in the east of England to attempting to assassinate the Prime Minister and all her cabinet in the biggest assault on a British government since the Gunpowder Plot on 5th November 1605?
The long timer to this moment was set many, many years before.
Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Series Producer: Owen McFadden
Story Consultant and Sound Design: Alan Hall
Producer: Lena Ferguson
Archive Producer: Fran Rowlatt McCormick
Production Co-Ordinator: Hollie Wallace
Composer: Mark McCambridge
Sound Engineer: Claire Marquess
Mixing Engineer: Mike Woolley
Patrick Magee archive courtesy of Peter Taylor and Whistledown Productions
Executive Producer: Rachel Hooper
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