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Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

Double agents. Dark sources. Deadly missions.

20246.31 Season3 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Created by Lucie Ridout
Produced by Emily Thompson
NetworksBBC Two

Top Cast

Saskia Reeves

Saskia Reeves

Self - Narrator (voice)

Martin Munro

Martin Munro

Oleg Gordievsky

Jacques Theron

Jacques Theron

Aldrich Ames

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Themes & Keywords

cold warsoviet unionkgbmi6mi51980su.s. secret service agentspiescounter-espionage

About Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game is a documentary, war & politics series that first aired in 2024 exploring themes of cold war, soviet union, kgb, mi6, mi5, 1980s. Created by Lucie Ridout, it stars Saskia Reeves, Martin Munro, Jacques Theron. Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

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