Paranoia
Two spies turn double agents at the height of the Cold War standoff between East and West. Their deception happens as the superpowers edge towards nuclear war.
It’s summer 1982, and KGB spy Oleg Gordievsky travels from Moscow to take up a post at the Soviet embassy in London. East and west have a deep mistrust and misunderstanding of each other, and as a result, the Cold War, which has been rumbling on for almost 40 years, is heating up. The spying game and paranoia magnify the suspicion between superpowers, and an arms race threatens to bring the world to nuclear armageddon.
Including rarely heard archive interviews with Oleg Gordievsky and the unpublished letters of Michael Bettaney, as well as interviews with former aides to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and former KGB, MI5 and MI6 officers, some of whom have never spoken publicly before.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Saskia Reeves |
| Oleg Gordievsky | Martin Munro |
| Aldrich Ames | Jacques Theron |
| Yuri Andropov | Thomas Cleghorn |
| Michael Bettaney | Luke Tyler |
| Arkady Guk | Wayne Harrison |
| Director | Kate Quine |
| Producer | Emily Thompson |
| Production Manager | Paul Allen |
| Executive Producer | Lucie Ridout |
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