• 2018
  • 1h
Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits

Summary Immersive history series focusing on one of World War II's most covert organisations, Britain's Special Operations Executive. A group of modern-day volunteers undertake the SOE agent training programme. View more details

  • 2018
  • 1h

Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Douglas Henshall Adrian Weale William Beresford Davies Nicky Moffat

All cast & crew

7.6

Details

Genres : History Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Apr 8, 2018

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Broadcasting Corporation

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Wall to Wall Media

Summary Immersive history series focusing on one of World War II's most covert organisations, Britain's Special Operations Executive. A group of modern-day volunteers undertake the SOE agent training programme. View more details

Details

Genres : History Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Apr 8, 2018

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Broadcasting Corporation

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Wall to Wall Media

Photos

Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018) Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018) Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018) Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018) Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018) Douglas Henshall, Mike Rennie, Lizzie Jeffreys, Magdalena Thomas, Robert Copsey, William Beresford Davies, Alastair Stanley, Rohini Bajaj, Samy Ali, Roger Barris, Charlotte Beauclerk, Vicki Wright, Nicky Moffat, Adrian Weale, Dan Dewhirst, Ben Simmons, Debbey Clitheroe, and Paul Stone in Secret Agent Selection: WW2 (2018)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 08, 2018
Selection
The series opens by charting the beginnings of SOE. The students face the Student Assessment Board - an intense 4-day course to discover who has the raw talent to progress to the full training.
Episode 2 • Apr 15, 2018
Episode #1.2
The students training begins as they learn how to use guns, explosives and silent killing techniques. We learn how these skills all came together and helped SOE pull off one of the most audacious assassinations of WWII.
Episode 3 • Apr 22, 2018
Episode #1.3
The students go to the remote Scottish Highlands where they learn the survival skills required for life in the field. They are schooled in some of the same techniques which prepared a group of agents to halt Hitler's atomic ambitions.
Episode 4 • Apr 29, 2018
Episode #1.4
The students attend the SOE "finishing school" where they will learn the skills needed to operate undercover inside enemy territory such as lock-picking and sending coded messages. They then face a mock interrogation.
Episode 5 • May 07, 2018
Episode #1.5
As the immersive history series draws to a close, eight of the original students have fallen by the wayside. The six remaining survivors undertake a 24 hour practice mission that will test the skills they have learned.
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