The Mystery of Anthrax Island

BBC Scotland HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday 24 May

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During the Second World War, government scientists from Porton Down attempted to weaponise anthrax, creating a deadly strain that they then tested on Gruinard Island, an uninhabited site off the north-west coast of Scotland. This documentary reveals how in 1981 a shadowy group of Scots activists got the island cleaned up by claiming to have removed 300lbs of soil contaminated with anthrax