Part 1: Vigil in the North Finnmark is Norway's northernmost county, a bleak and isolated region the size of Denmark, containing only some 80,000 people, with a small Norwegian army garrison to secure their defence. Yet barely a hundred miles to the east lies the world's most powerful naval base, the great Soviet nuclear submarine base of Murmansk. In the David-and-Goliath relationship, what impact has the East-West barrier had on people living in the border region, on the officers and men serving there and on the policies of the Norwegian Government?
Written and presented by Erik de Mauny
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER