The world of spies and spymasters is explored, featuring authors from Rudyard Kipling to John Buchan and clips from The Ipcress File and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Cold War storytelling comes alive with Forsyth, MacLean and le Carre, with iconic scenes from The Third Man and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Ian Fleming's remarkable life, James Bond's effect on literature and film and Bond's influence on actual intelligence. Film extracts include No Time to Die.
This episode looks at recent intelligence history, from the defection of Oleg Gordievsky to the killing of Osama bin Laden. Film extracts include Bridge of Spies and Zero Dark 30.
