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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, 9 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, 9 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 months ago
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Londonistan
Season 4 Episode 2
Aimen Dean is trapped. He wants out of al-Qaeda and Afghanistan, but no one gets to leave the jihadi training camps without permission. So when a mis…
1 year, 11 months ago
Listen Now: Everything To Play For
Self-confessed sports geeks Elis James and Colin Murray are here to serve up the juiciest tales from the world of sports – think epic rivalries, scra…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Spy Who Betrayed Bin Laden | Holy War
Season 4 Episode 1
It’s 1994 and 16-year-old Aimen Dean wants to die. He’s heading to war-torn Bosnia to join the Mujahideen and save fellow Muslims. He hopes to become…
1 year, 11 months ago