Railway

1st May 1991 Season 10 Episode 4

British Rail's crack Yorkshire Pullman carries business people to London from Leeds in two hours precisely. A first-class service is demanded by first-class passengers from a staff many of whom date back to the great steam age, with all those old-fashioned notions of dedication to service and loyalty. In foul and fair weather we see how the stoic railwaymen struggle to maintain the service. Battered by the 'great British winter' of 1991 both railwaymen and the great British public suffer together from the short-sightedness and poor planning of someone up there.

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Season 10 · Episode 5

Fatal Encounter

During the 60s Colonel Oleg Penkovsky , a senior Russian intelligence officer, had proved himself to be 'our spy of the century'. For 16 months he passed the Kremlin's vital secrets to MI6 and the CIA. Suddenly the KGB arrested Penkovsky along with the British businessman Greville Wynne. Their joint show trial abruptly terminated M16's precious asset. But how did the KGB find out about Penkovsky's activities? For the first time the KGB investigators and Penkovsky's CIA case officers disclose the innermost secrets of the case, and reveal that they blame MI6 for Penkovsky's demise.

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