After six days of tense negotiations, the Iranian Embassy siege reaches breaking point.

With hostages' lives hanging in the balance and the gunmen becoming increasingly desperate, the British government faces a terrifying decision. As the world watches, the SAS prepares to storm the building in a daring rescue operation that will become one of the most famous moments in British television history.

In the concluding part of our two-part special, we reveal how the siege came to its explosive end, the lives lost and the extraordinary events that unfolded in the aftermath.

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London, April 1980. Six armed men storm the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington, taking 26 people hostage and sparking a terrifying siege that will grip the nation.

As armed police surround the building and negotiators desperately try to secure the hostages' release, tensions mount and the world watches.

In Part One of this two-part special, we explore how the siege began, who was behind it and how an ordinary spring morning in London became the start of one of Britain's most extraordinary hostage crises.

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She convinced New York’s elite that she was a fabulously wealthy German heiress, lived the high life and dreamed of creating an exclusive members’ club in Manhattan.

There was just one problem: Anna Delvey wasn’t quite who she claimed to be.

Originally released in February 2022, this week’s Seeing Red: Second Look returns to the remarkable story of Anna Sorokin — better known as Anna Delvey. Mark has recorded a new introduction explaining why, more than four years later, he wanted to revisit the case, as well as bringing Anna’s extraordinary story up to date.

And the timing is rather fitting: November 2026 marks ten years since Anna began pursuing a $22 million loan to fund her ambitious Anna Delvey Foundation.

Listening back, Mark was struck again by Anna’s apparent loneliness and by the sympathy he felt for this strangely compelling anti-hero. And Anna certainly hasn’t disappeared since we last left her: there have been immigration battles, house arrest, an electronic ankle monitor turned fashion accessory and even Dancing with the Stars.

Whether you heard it back in 2022 or are discovering her story for the first time, this is Seeing Red: Second Look — Anna Delvey: The Fake Heiress of New York.

Originally released in February 2022 and newly remastered, with a new introduction and update.

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