BOMBERS: Bombers 1

Programme one deals with early explosives, timers, booby traps and incendiaries - made by Loyalists as well as the IRA. Former terrorists and bomb disposal experts discuss training, stolen commercial explosives, use of fertiliser, bomb making "kitchens", development of the car bomb, tactics, mistakes, own goals. Main reconstructions La Mon and Dublin/Monaghan bombings from the victims' point of view.

The series features unique contributions from Forensic Science Agency of NI, former RUC and Special Branch officer, Bomb disposal officers and former members of Republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups.