Modern Spies – BBC2
Modern Spies is a two-part BBC TV series that looks at the real world of modern spies and compares it with the fictional spy world. There were clips from Spooks, 24, James Bond and Tinker Tailor...
View ArticleModern Spies Part 2- BBC2
The second and final episode of Modern Spies was broadcast by BBC TV on Monday 9 April. It was presented by Peter Taylor, a BBC journalist who specialised in Northern Ireland in the 1990s and has...
View ArticleThe Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes: Channel 4
The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes is a TV documentary that was broadcast in the UK by Channel 4 on Thursday 26 April. For UK viewers it can be viewed online from the 4OD service until 26 May. It...
View ArticleArgo: The Truth
Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck, was voted best picture at this year’s Oscars. It tells the story of how Tony Mendez (Affleck), a CIA agent succeeded in helping six US diplomats to escape...
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow’s film Zero Dark Thirty tells the story of the successful US attempt to find and kill Osama bin Laden; I am using the most common spelling of his first name, but there are different...
View ArticleThe Spies Who Fooled the World – BBC
On 18 March 2013, the BBC broadcast a documentary called The Spies Who Fooled the World as part of its Panorama current affairs series. The spies in question were those whose claims that Saddam...
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