Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Bellasis House, named just Bellasis in WW2, was one of the first six of the training schools of the Special Operations Executive. Established in early 1941, Bellasis first provided paramilitary training for SOE staff and foreign anti-fascist would-be agents. By November 1941 Bellasis had become the Holding School for Czechoslovakian personnel, giving initial and refresher instruction for agents waiting to depart on missions in enemy-occupied Czechoslovakia. The SOE agents for whom Bellasis is chiefly remembered were the two members, Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, of OPERATION ANTHROPOID. On the Wednesday show, we shall visit the lovely natural surroundings of the Bellasis House in Surrey, 80 years after the Operation Anthropoid took place.