Damn the Torpedoes! is an audience-inspired, military themed, 30 minute comedy sketch show that was a first for BFBS Radio.

The Damn The Torpedoes! team invited injured service personnel and members of the Band of Brothers, to help create some sketches at a ‘Writers’ Room’ workshop at the Tedworth House Recovery Centre.

Alison Pritchard the shows Producer says “We ran a comedy writing ‘script workshop’ with the ‘Band of Brothers’, a mixed group of Afghan veterans overcoming life changing injuries which was great fun, in fact some of the sketches we worked on that day made it into the winning show.

Richard Hatch, the show’s Executive producer says “The show is a scattergun of comedy sketches, which try hard to place the comedy whoopee cushion carefully on the chair of, the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The show takes listeners into action around the world, refuelling at exotic locations like the Kabul inter-services golf classic and the worst nightclub in Portsmouth”.

Damn The Torpedoes! is performed by stars of radio and television, including Lewis Macleod (from BBC Radio's Dead Ringers, Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself, Newsjack, Wired News) and Debbie Arnold (from EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, The Two Ronnies, Minder and Birds Of A Feather).

After the show was broadcast The Independent published an article about it - http://ind.pn/292WrX0

Listen to the best bits this Saturday 2nd July at 1:30pm, Sunday 3rd July and 6:30pm and 15th July at 6:30pm.

You can find BFBS Radio on DAB, Sky 0211, Freesat 786, on FM around the Forces world or on the free BFBS Radio app!

Damn the Torpedoes! is an audience-inspired, military themed, 30 minute comedy sketch show that was a first for BFBS Radio.

The Damn The Torpedoes! team invited injured service personnel and members of the Band of Brothers, to help create some sketches at a ‘Writers’ Room’ workshop at the Tedworth House Recovery Centre.

Alison Pritchard the shows Producer says “We ran a comedy writing ‘script workshop’ with the ‘Band of Brothers’, a mixed group of Afghan veterans overcoming life changing injuries which was great fun, in fact some of the sketches we worked on that day made it into the winning show.

Richard Hatch, the show’s Executive producer says “The show is a scattergun of comedy sketches, which try hard to place the comedy whoopee cushion carefully on the chair of, the British Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The show takes listeners into action around the world, refuelling at exotic locations like the Kabul inter-services golf classic and the worst nightclub in Portsmouth”.

Damn The Torpedoes! is performed by stars of radio and television, including Lewis Macleod (from BBC Radio's Dead Ringers, Lewis Macleod Is Not Himself, Newsjack, Wired News) and Debbie Arnold (from EastEnders, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, The Two Ronnies, Minder and Birds Of A Feather).

After the show was broadcast The Independent published an article about it - http://ind.pn/292WrX0

Listen to the best bits this Saturday 2nd July at 1:30pm, Sunday 3rd July and 6:30pm and 15th July at 6:30pm.

You can find BFBS Radio on DAB, Sky 0211, Freesat 786, on FM around the Forces world or on the free BFBS Radio app!

The Marine Society offers learning programmes that help seafarers improve their education and take the next crucial step in their professional development.

The charity are direct providers of a number of programmes and also partner with education and training bodies.

Tim Humphries visited their officers and spoke to Mark Windsor, Director of Lifelong Learning.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, BFBS Germany’s Dave Roberts and Misty McCready produced a unique documentary focusing on the young inmates.

This programme includes interviews with survivors of the camp, poignant archive audio, and first-hand accounts written in 1945.

“When we started researching the story of Bergen-Belsen we were shocked to discover that a high proportion of the camp's inmates had been children,” said Misty. “Hearing that many of these child-survivors had been made to feel that they weren't ‘true’ survivors – because of their age – seemed intolerable, and we couldn't ignore it. We were privileged to speak to four people who had suffered at the injustice of the Nazi regime, yet had taken positives away from what would have destroyed many of us.”

Among the interviewees are survivors Rudi Oppenheimer and Miryam Sommerfeld. Bernard Levy, a British soldier who arrived approximately one week after the liberation, also shares his story.

BBC archive audio featuring Richard Dimbleby, the first reporter into Belsen post-liberation, and Harold-Osmond le Druillenec, the only British National found in the camp, set the documentary in raw historical context.

“We wanted a younger generation to hear these stories first-hand,” added Misty. “Seventy years may seem like history, but many of Bergen-Belsen's child survivors are still living with the memories of what they experienced. The lesson that needs to be learnt is so important. The survivors need to be given the opportunity to tell their stories time and time again.”

This unique and compelling documentary won two trophies at the 2016 New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Awards.

Forces broadcasters, Misty McCready and Dave Roberts, travelled from the BFBS studios in Germany to collect bronze awards in the History and Profiles/Community Portraits categories.

Speaking from the ceremony in Manhattan, Dave said: “Without a doubt this is the highlight of both of our broadcasting careers. With neither of us having made a documentary before, we could never have imagined that our first attempt would be so well-received.

“It gives us an overwhelming sense of pride knowing that we did our survivors' stories justice.”

Amy Casey meets Lt Col (Retd) Stewart Berman, formerly from Queen's Dragoon Guards and now the Garrison Staff Officer at Bovington Camp. He took Amy on a tour around the camp, a British Army military base in Dorset. If you like tanks, this is the place to be...

All this week we are exploring the camps at Bovington and Lulworth.

Bovington Garrison supports two barracks complexes and two forest and heathland training areas that support Phase Two training for soldiers of the Royal Armoured Corps and armour trades for the Household Cavalry Regiment as well as other units.

Amy Casey spoke to WO2 Terry Dove in a Warrior - a military people mover!

Pictured: Warrior Armoured Personnel Carrier 511 / Ministry of Defence

Hal's Pointless partner Adam Scott answers the first of the 'Listener Pointless Questions'.

Amy Casey and Laura Skitt have been searching the World Wide Web for the latest stories that have caught our attention. Click and listen to what they discovered...

This morning BFBS Radio's Richard Hatch spoke to Britain's Got Talent finalist magician Richard Jones to wish him all the best for this weekends final! His brother Bomb Disposal Operator SSgt Andy Jones from 33 Engineer Regiment EOD & Search deployed in North Africa was listening and got in contact asking for us to pass on a message! Hear what he had to say...

This is what Andy had to say after his message was read out... "We all just heard it! All the lads gathering round our little internet radio, we gave a huge cheer! Really appreciate that, guess you guys arent useless afterall! hahaha"

Adam and Hal appeared on the TV show 'Pointless' recently, they talked about that experience (and some other things) on Hal's BFBS drive time show.