{"id":122,"date":"2002-07-23T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-23T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tashuk.wordpress.com\/2002\/07\/23\/122\/"},"modified":"2002-07-23T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-23T10:07:00","slug":"122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/122","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><b>Think they may want to do the &#8220;Battle of the Beanfield&#8221; on Radio 4 called &#8220;In Living Memory&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>::&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>Jolyon Jenkins [<a href=\"mailto:jolyon.jenkins@bbc.co.uk\">jolyon.jenkins@bbc.co.uk<\/a>]<br \/>\n<br \/>BBC Bristol<br \/>\n<br \/>Fri 19\/07\/02 14:19<br \/>\n<br \/>Hello<br \/>\n<br \/>I&#8217;m making part of a series for Radio 4 called &#8220;In Living Memory&#8221; in which we revisit events of the not-too-distant past which have been half forgotten, and ask what the aftermath was. I&#8217;ve been wondering about doing something on the travellers&#8217; convoys of 1985-7 and maybe the Battle of the Beanfield in particular. I came across your excellent website.<br \/>\n<br \/>Could I have a chat with you about it? My phone number is 0117 974 2260<br \/>\n<br \/>Jolyon Jenkins<br \/>\n<br \/>Producer, network features<\/p>\n<p>::&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>So sorry about this email stuff.  It runs faster than I can..!<\/p>\n<p>Have today just sent the tapes you asked for.  It turn out, being for the earliest in my collection. That they&#8217;re both on the same one. <\/p>\n<p>I forgot to mention our most famous piece we made to describe the situation and the trial I talked about in Winchester, about it all. Its called &#8216;OPERATION SOLSTICE&#8217;. That being the name of the police operation that lead to the Beanfield.  Also full of my still work, shame your doing a radio show J<\/p>\n<p>I find it interesting the when we made operation solstice that it was remarked that a lot of news footage of the field on the day,  simply &#8216;went missing&#8217; .  Kim Sabido went into all this on the solstice tape. Now,  there you are looking for &#8216;broadcast footage&#8217; , this time, and that&#8217;s gone missing also!<\/p>\n<p>Is it paranoia to wonder if someone is trying to re-paint history.?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know you&#8217;ve read some of this, but just making sure.<\/p>\n<p>The story so far &#8211; history in context<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/history.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/history.htm<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/history.pdf\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/history.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>summary of beanfield bit <a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/sh_bean.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/sh_bean.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My &#8216;cell notes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/sh_bean-notes1.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/sh_bean-notes1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>diary I kept of my operations later year  http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/shenge_diary1988_1.htm<a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/sh_bean-notes1.htm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo-gallery of the day in field\t<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/gal_beanf1.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/gal_beanf1.htm<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/legal_assortment.htm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Assorted legal hassle, [for context] <a href=\"http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/legal_assortment.htm\">http:\/\/tash.gn.apc.org\/legal_assortment.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0037_09slide.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0037_09slideT.jpg?w=640\"><\/a>    <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0039_02slide.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0039_02slideT.jpg?w=640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>::&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>Jolyon Jenkins [<a href=\"mailto:jolyon.jenkins@bbc.co.uk\">jolyon.jenkins@bbc.co.uk<\/a>]<br \/>\n<br \/>BBC Bristol<br \/>\n<br \/>Mon 22\/07\/02 15:16<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your help on the phone this morning. If you could lend me copies<br \/>\n<br \/>of Open Space and the Channel 4 prog I&#8217;d be grateful. My address is: BBC,<br \/>\n<br \/>Room 1.16, 27\/29 Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR and my phone is 0117 942<br \/>\n<br \/>2260<br \/>\n<br \/>If you can think of anyone else invovled in those events we could interview<br \/>\n<br \/>that would be great<br \/>\n<br \/>Jolyon Jenknis<\/p>\n<p>::&gt;&gt;<br \/>\n<br \/>TO: Jolyon Jenkins BBC, Room 1.16,<br \/>\n<br \/>27\/29 Whiteladies Road, Bristol, BS8 2LR<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, 23 July 2002<\/p>\n<p>Hello<br \/>\n<br \/>By the time you get this, hope you&#8217;ll have received my email with the appropriate links for my site. Hope they offer enough background for your needs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest on the subject. <\/p>\n<p>I was present at a small gathering in the car park, at Stonehenge, one morning, after a short session in the stones couple of years ago. When I over heard a conversation between some &#8216;young&#8217; hippies!. and Inspector Hill.  Oh well, he says &#8220;you don&#8217;t want to believe everything you hear about it, it was as bad as all that!&#8221;.  I had to stop what I was doing, approached hi, and said &#8220;Bloody Heck!, is that what you&#8217;ve been telling them all these years&#8221;.  He looked at me, and then sparkles of recognition dawned on him.  &#8220;Good lord, Mr Lodge, hello!&#8221; and looked very sheepish. I said hello, and shook his hand, as offered.  History being re-written in right in front  of me.  Remarkable after you see the videos, because he was a &#8216;line commander&#8217; on the day, and knew full well what it was like.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, find TWO videotapes. One has &#8220;Trashed&#8221; as the first program, about 30 mins.. See the label,  3 July 1985, with the other &#8216;missing footage&#8217;, isn&#8217;t it interesting you cant find it either!!.  &#8220;May the Force be with you&#8221; is three part show.  We feature in all bits, in context, but out main description is about 1:30 into the tape.<\/p>\n<p>Return by secure post, and hope you find them useful.<br \/>\n<br \/>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Alan Lodge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0040_02slide.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0040_02slideT.jpg?w=640\"><\/a>    <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0040_07slide.jpg\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tash.gn.apc.org\/0040_07slideT.jpg?w=640\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think they may want to do the &#8220;Battle of the Beanfield&#8221; on Radio 4 called &#8220;In Living Memory&#8221; ::&gt;&gt; Jolyon Jenkins [jolyon.jenkins@bbc.co.uk] BBC Bristol Fri 19\/07\/02 14:19 Hello I&#8217;m making part of a series for Radio 4 called &#8220;In Living &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}