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Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm Wednesday, October 14
Traitors
Season 1 · Episode 2
The documentary looks at how Britain identified Mikhail Gorbachev as a possible new contender for Soviet leader, believing he could be the ticket to better relations between East and West. Plus, how fragile steps towards diplomacy were threatened by the vested interests of other spies still stuck in the old world order
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- Saskia Reeves — Narrator
- Martin Munro — Actor as Oleg Gordievsky
- Jacques Theron — Actor as Aldrich Ames
- Wayne Harrison — Actor as Arkady Guk
- Retief Loubser — Actor as Leonid Nikitenko
- Kate Quine — Director
- Emily Thompson — Producer
- Lucie Ridout — Executive producer
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