The Last Post executive producer and writer Peter Moffat lived in Aden as a British expat child in the 1960s. According to Moffat,his mother recalls seeing a hand grenade kill a young boy during her first week in Aden.
In 1966,Amnesty International released a report detailing the extreme interrogation techniques being employed by British forces against detainees in Aden. The British government denied the allegations.
Though Yemen is frequently affected by intense sand storms caused by the Shamal winds, these storms usually occur between March and August.
"The Hippopotamus Song"was written by British comedians Michael Flanders and Donald Swann and was loosely based on the comical 1895 song "Glorious Beer,"written by Will Godwin and Steve Leggett.