BBC NEWS
BBCi CATEGORIES   TV   RADIO   COMMUNICATE   WHERE I LIVE   INDEX    SEARCH 

BBC News UK Edition
 You are in: Programmes: True Spies  
News Front Page
World
UK
England
N Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Politics
Business
Entertainment
Science/Nature
Technology
Health
Education
-------------
Talking Point
-------------
Country Profiles
In Depth
-------------
Programmes
-------------
BBC Sport
BBC Weather
CBBC News
SERVICES
-------------
EDITIONS
True Spies Thursday, 27 February, 2003, 15:23 GMT
This three-part series was broadcast on BBC Two during October - November 2002.
Our panel of experts answered your questions You shaped the debate
Our experts answered your questions about spying and civil liberties in a TV and internet debate - click on the headline to watch.
Ricky Tomlinson had no idea Special Branch had kept a file on him Watching 'subversives'
Award-winning reporter Peter Taylor investigates how the British "Secret State" has spied on its citizens, including actor Ricky Tomlinson, for decades.
Arthur Scargill Something Better Change
Peter Taylor reveals how MI5 and Special Branch infiltrated Far Left and Far Right groups and spied on union leaders Arthur Scargill and Derek "Red Robbo" Robinson.
May Day protests It Could Happen To You
In the last programme of the series Peter Taylor asks if the personal freedom of each citizen needs to be protected as carefully as the security of the state itself?
True Spies home
E-mail us
Your comments
FAQs
The making of True Spies
Secret State quiz
SECRET STATE TIMELINE
The beginning
The Cold War Era
Post Cold War

Try our quiz and see if you could be a spy
Could you be a spy?

© BBC ^^ Back to top

News Front Page | World | UK | England | N Ireland | Scotland | Wales |
Politics | Business | Entertainment | Science/Nature | Technology |
Health | Education | Talking Point | Country Profiles | In Depth |
Programmes