Churchill's Secret Agents: The New Recruits
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.
Genre: Documentary, History, Reality-TV
Cast:Douglas Henshall , Lizzie Jeffreys , William Beresford Davies , Nicky Moffat , Magdalena Thomas , Alastair Stanley , Mike Rennie , Adrian Weale , Robert Copsey , Debbey Clitheroe , Samy Ali , Rohini Bajaj , Roger Barris , Dan Dewhirst , Ben Simmons , Paul Stone , Ceebe Cae , Vicki Wright
S1.E1 ∙ 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.
S1.E2 ∙ 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.
S1.E3 ∙ 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.
S1.E4 ∙ 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.
S1.E5 ∙ 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.
