S01E01 Episode 1
The students face SOE’s demanding selection process. Known as the Student Assessment Board, this intense four-day course puts the students through a series of physical and mental tests, all with the aim of finding out...
Secret Agent Selection: WW2
S01E04: Episode 4
The students are transported to a British Stately home - this is SOE Finishing School - a 1940s spy school which prepared agents for a life living undercover in enemy territory. They learn to pick locks, send coded messages and see some real SOE gadgets, before facing an intense mock interrogation designed to prepare agents for the eventuality of capture, torture and possible execution.
Overview
The training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
Training begins as the students are schooled in guns, explosives and silent killing techniques. Skills which came together and helped SOE to pull off one of the most audacious assassinations of World War Two. The...
S01E03 Episode 3
The students are dropped in the middle of the remote Scottish Highlands, where they learn survival skills required for life in the field. Training in the same mountains as 1940s agents, they are schooled in...
S01E04 Episode 4
The students are transported to a British Stately home - this is SOE Finishing School - a 1940s spy school which prepared agents for a life living undercover in enemy territory. They learn to pick...
S01E05 Episode 5
Eight of the original 14 students have fallen by the wayside, leaving just six survivors to undertake SOE’s final scheme – a 24-hour practice mission bringing together all the skills they have learned during training.
Cast
Douglas Henshall
Narrator
