S1.E11 ∙ The Neptune Affair

The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.

A documentary thriller. When Taliya was young, she never knew for sure whether her uncle was a KGB agent in disguise or a true member of the family. Her father claimed that his brother had been murdered in a Ukrainian prison and substituted by an imposter from the KGB, forced on the family by the old soviet regime. Her father presented his claims in a way that made his family believe this unlikely story. After the tragic death of the father, the mystery surrounding his stories continued to grow. Five years after his death, filmmaker Taliya Finkel goes on a fascinating journey in order to unfold the mystery around her departed father. Guided by a private investigator, she travels from Israel to the Ukraine and back in a desperate quest to find proof of her father's story. During the voyage, Taliya investigates the thin line that separates imagination and reality, sanity and madness.

Businessman Greville Wynne is asked by a Russian source to try to help put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.

"Las 7 vidas del general" is a series of docu-fiction with a narrative thriller, in which we discover how the main character, Juan Domingo Peron, achieved successive escape assassination attempts. The series features exclusive first-hand testimony and a vast archive material accompanying recreations taking the viewer in the process of discovering how the facts were developed.

Broadcast live from London's Royal Festival Hall, join us for a celebration of one of the world's greatest writers as he shares the secrets behind the creation of his most beloved character.