Espionage

Described by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He began writing in his fifties, and went on to pen over 40 bestselling books, five of which are dramatised here alongside three plays specially written for BBC Radio and two bonus documentaries.

Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company, a long way from the tough upbringing that drove him to rise so far and so quickly. But he has a secret...since the age of 23, he's had a helping hand from the Legend Programme, a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people, living real lives, willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for a helping hand with plum jobs, influence and access.

Caspian Anderson is a translator for the United Nations—or so he’s led everyone to believe. No one suspects that mild-mannered Caspian, with his baggy clothes and sensible car, is actually an elite assassin for the US government. And that’s just how he wants it. For ten years, Caspian has worked under the code name Elias for Onyx, a black program deep within the Department of Homeland Security. His latest mission takes him to Switzerland to kill a target tied to a human trafficking ring. There, Caspian stumbles onto a web of conspiracies involving high-level political figures.

Oppositionelle Exilsyrer engagieren Court Gentry, um die Geliebte des syrischen Diktators Ahmed Azzam zu entführen – sie hoffen, so dem grausamen Regime in ihrer Heimat ein Ende zu bereiten. Doch die Sache wird schnell viel komplizierter und tödlicher als gedacht. Killerkommandos des Islamischen Staats und des syrischen Geheimdienstes mischen mit, korrupte französische Polizisten, ein berüchtigter Spezialagent im Dienst der syrischen First Lady ... Und obendrein hat die schöne Geliebte des Diktators noch ein kleines Geheimnis: Sie ist die Mutter von Azzams einzigem Erben.

Un importante, pero macabro hallazgo arqueológico desentierra un misterio que ha sido celosamente guardado por la iglesia: en una mazmorra, construida en los tiempos de la conquista, son encontrados los cadáveres de siete frailes quienes fueron abandonados y torturados a muerte.

Cuando los malos se enfrentan a los malos no hay esperanza posible, siempre ganarán los corruptos, los que juegan sucio, los que lucran con el destino de un país. Cuando la noche cae sobre un pueblo, las sombras de la política son la peor pesadilla de un México que sigue dormido. ¿Hasta dónde es capaz un ser humano para conseguir y conservar el poder?

Las soldaderas narra, en voz de Cecilia —quien luego se convirtió en Adelita—, la historia de la primera revolución en México: la revolución femenina, un acontecimiento que inició de forma silenciosa a mediados del Porfiriato, cuando las mujeres se incorporaron a los sectores laborales como oficinistas, telegrafistas, periodistas, editoras de periódicos, enfermeras, parteras y médicas, algo que la sociedad veía con malos ojos y que consideraba ocioso, innecesario y peligroso, pues por siglos las mujeres habían sido educadas para el matrimonio, la maternidad y las labores del hogar.

In Deutschland hat noch niemals ein Wolf einen Menschen angegriffen. Bis jetzt? Lupus von Tibor Rode ist ein filmreifer Wissenschaftsthriller im Spannungsfeld zwischen Mensch, Technik und Natur. Ohne jede Spur verschwinden nachts Jäger auf der Pirsch – so auch der Vater von Tierärztin Jenny Rausch. Zeitgleich häufen sich Angriffe scheinbar wildgewordener Wölfe in deutschen Wäldern. Die Kameras auf einem eigens eingerichteten und von KI gesteuerten Schutzzaun zeichnen seltsame Daten auf, was Staatsanwalt Frederik Bach auf den Plan ruft.

In the near-future, eco-terrorism against major fossil and nuclear energy facilities is widespread. At the same time, Badger Energy, the latest company formed by energy entrepreneur and climate change activist, Richard Strossel, is developing a new technology that uses high-temperature superconductors to store enough renewable wind and solar energy to power a city reliably. However, these systems can be made to explode with energy release equivalent to a tactical nuclear weapon.

At hyre en morder har aldrig været farligere... ”Jeg venter på, at der kommer nogen og dræber mig. I aften vil være et godt tidspunkt.” Sytten, verdens mest berygtede lejemorder, har sagt op. Men hvem, der end måtte ønske at blive Snigmorder Atten, må finde og dræbe ham først. Så da en kugle rammer glasset få centimeter fra hans ansigt, ved han, hvem der skød – gør han ikke? Men skytten er ikke den hårdkogte dræber, han forventede. Det er Mireille – et mystisk, tavst barn, efterladt alene i skoven med instruktioner om at trykke på aftrækkeren.

As part of an elite IP Crime Strike Force, NYPD lieutenant Max Valentin is in a relentless pursuit to outwit a cunning Chinese spy who will stop at nothing to steal quantum research from a New York City university. Unraveling the threads of a global conspiracy, where confidences are currency and trust is a rare commodity. Max and his team embark in a high-stakes battle for quantum supremacy. As tensions mount it is a race against time to unmask spies and protect secrets that can change the course of nations.

Tony Wolf, a troubled man and the FBI’s most esteemed undercover agent, is back after mysteriously vanishing without a trace. A specialist at infiltrating criminal organizations and taking them down from the inside, he lives his life in the shadows. But when he’s forced into the open during the rescue of two kidnapped children, Wolf becomes caught up in a massive federal manhunt. Faced with a traitorous agent and a ruthless, renegade biker gang he has crossed paths with before, Wolf finds himself in danger.

A corrosive disinformation agency that levels total societal control by scripting all of the world’s major events comes to suspect that its own too clever for their own good secret operatives may have quietly developed an omniscient population thinning super weapon. Desperate to keep the reins, the agency conscripts possessed saboteurs; five men with minds fueled by a ravenous form of insect psychology to inflict its disloyal agents with fatal serial strings of bad luck.

Instead of an honest future in robotics, Baxter Cruise trades his talent for dirty money. After a string of bad choices, it’s just another downward slide. But this time, the consequences are dire. The cartel now holds Baxter and his secrets in a deadly grip. Nothing is off limits as they exert their control over him through blackmail and coercion. Abducted to a foreign country and forced to aid the cartel’s nefarious plans, he searches for a way to escape. When the project ends, there’s no reason to let him live.

Martin Friedrich, a German philosopher, is cycling through an intersection on his way to give a lecture when a speeding car strikes and kills him. Shortly afterwards, Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter - an Austrian-born cockney Jew, whose parents were interned during the war as enemy aliens - stands over the body of Friedrich, contemplating the age-old question: who did it?