New series1/5. Dramatised documentaries exploring key points in the race for nuclear supremacy.
The Spy from Moscow. Exploring the undercover work of Soviet colonel Oleg Penkovsky who, during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, passed huge amounts of technical information to MI6 and the CIA. Pursued by the KGB, he died a brutal death soon afterwards. Was he a saviour of the free world or a sinister triple agent? Narrated by Sean Pertwee.
Writer Mark Halliley ; Executive producer Deborah Cadbury
Director Matthew Wortman (HD)