Sitrep July 2nd 2015

(First broadcast on Thursday11th June 2015 at 4.30pm)     SITREP TRAIL THURS, 2nd JULY   Terror in Tunisia – after last week’s atrocities could the UK attack Islamic State in Syria?   Can anyone stop IS? And what do the lawyers say?   Find out what changes lay ahead for the British Army   It's back to The Somme - but what's the point in all these commemorations?     --------------------------- PRESENTER THIS WEEK: Kate Gerbeau STUDIO GUEST:    BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee OTHER INTERVIEWS:    TUNISIA/IS THREAT & REACTION The new Chairman of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Crispin Blunt, Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a chemical weapons expert working for NGOs in Syria and Iraq....and of course, BFBS Defence Analyst Christopher Lee.   POLITICAL REACTION BFBS reporter James Hirst   LAND WARFARE CONFERENCE BFBS reporter Rosie Laydon speaking to Director General of RUSI, Professor Michael Clarke   BATTLE OF THE SOMME CENTENARY EVENT BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee   THURSDAYS at 4:30pm UK TIME on BFBS RADIO 2and at 6:30pm UK TIME on BFBS & UK Bases   You can listen on BFBS Radio 2 at 1630 (UK time) and at 1830 (UK time) on BFBS (via web, App & DAB in the UK and on FM in Scotland, Colchester, Salisbury Plain, Aldershot, Catterick & Blandford Forum) Sky Channel 0211   Alternatively listen again on the website, or download the Sitrep podcast.