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The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | Ballots Not Bullets
Season 6 Episode 2
Stuck with a wayward handler, MI5 agent Willie Carlin hunts for a way out, only to get sucked deeper into the Irish republican movement.
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1 year, 7 months ago
The Spy Who Sold Peace to the IRA | A Divided Land
Season 6 Episode 1
When Willie Carlin quits the British Army to return to Northern Ireland during The Troubles, he gets an unusual job offer: to spy on his own catholic…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Unpacking the mind of a spy legend
Season 5 Episode 5
Few spies have motives as hard to decipher as those of Oleg Penkovsky. Was he a hero, an egotist or a madman? The Spy Who's Tristan Donovan sits down…
1 year, 7 months ago
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Code Nuclear
Season 5 Episode 4
It’s 1962 and Oleg Penkovsky has gone to ground after spotting a KGB surveillance team tracking his MI6 contact Janet Chisholm. But when the British …
1 year, 7 months ago
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Manoeuvres in Moscow
Season 5 Episode 3
Oleg Penkovsky is back in the USSR, ready to feed Soviet secrets to his new MI6 contact: a pram-pushing mother of three. But with the Berlin Crisis a…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | Hero or Madman?
Season 5 Episode 2
After months of missed opportunities, the CIA and MI6 are about to meet Penkovsky. But with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev squaring up to the US Pr…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spy Who Defused the Missile Crisis | The Stranger In Red Square
Season 5 Episode 1
It’s 1960. The world hangs on the brink of nuclear war. But in Moscow, a man’s about to emerge from the shadows with an offer for the CIA. His name i…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Aimen Dean talks about his time as MI6's Top Spy Inside Al-Qaeda
Season 4 Episode 5
Aimen Dean talks Raza Jaffrey through the highs and lows of his eight years as an undercover agent and why he chose to spy for the British rather tha…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Death Sentence
Season 4 Episode 4
Aimen Dean is now on a mission to thwart a deadly plot to release poison gas on the New York Subway. But when his British spymasters decide to alert …
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Twin Towers
Season 4 Episode 3
Aimen Dean is now working undercover posing as a loyal jihadi in Afghanistan, while actually spying for the British intelligence service MI6. And he …
1 year, 9 months ago