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The Choice | The Wargame Ep 5

Season 2 · Episode 5

Monday, June 23, 2025 • Duration 53:37

Hostilities worsen despite attempts to broker a ceasefire. What happens next requires difficult decisions and hard choices.
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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?

A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.

Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.

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Ultimatum | The Wargame Ep 4

Season 2 · Episode 4

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 58:20

A city is on fire. The UK fights back. Russia and Britain both have nuclear weapons. Will either country use them?

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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?

A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.

Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.

Episode 5 will be released on 24th June 2025.

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Where's the War Book? | The Wargame Ep 3

Season 2 · Episode 3

Monday, June 16, 2025 • Duration 48:39

The Prime Minister must address the nation. Meanwhile his ministers and officials do their best to deal with a crisis the UK hasn’t seriously prepared for in a generation.

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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?

A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.

Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.

Episode 5 will be released on 24th June 2025.

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Armed Attack | The Wargame Ep 2

Season 2 · Episode 2

Monday, June 9, 2025 • Duration 54:08

Hostilities with Russia erupt into an unprecedented attack. The Prime Minister and his team scramble to respond. Will the UK’s allies choose to help them?

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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?

A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.

Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.

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False Flag | The Wargame Ep 1

Season 2 · Episode 1

Monday, June 9, 2025 • Duration 59:04

Tensions with Russia escalate, and an imaginary week in the near future takes a turn for the unexpected. The Prime Minister calls an emergency Cobra meeting.

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Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?

A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.

Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes.

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Introducing... The Wargame

Season 2

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 • Duration 02:51

A bunker. A scenario. A group of former senior ministers, military chiefs and other experts. Russia knows our weaknesses – but do you?

Sky News' security and defence editor Deborah Haynes presents The Wargame – a major new five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise, set in the near future.

Launching 10th June.

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Living in the Grey Zone - MI5 and the Russia threat | Grey Zone Ep 9

Season 1 · Episode 9

Wednesday, March 3, 2021 • Duration 50:56

In this final episode, we have the first ever interview with serving MI5 officers who work in counter intelligence.

Tom and Kate talk about the challenge of grey zone threats from Russia and reveal their shock at the Salisbury spy poisonings.

They also reveal that the Security Service has bolstered protection for people in the UK deemed at risk from Russia and is doing “everything we can” to prevent another Salisbury-style attack, but there are no “absolute guarantees” – in the grey zone.

Guests:
Tom, senior MI5 intelligence officer working on Russia
Kate, MI5 intelligence officer investigating the activities of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU
Lord Mark Sedwill, former UK national security adviser
Dominic Grieve, former senior Conservative MP, former chair of Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee, former attorney general

Credits:
Written and narrated by Deborah Haynes
Edited and produced by Chris Scott
Production support from Sophia McBide and Michael Greenfield
The Head of Sky News Radio is Dave Terris

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When The Grey Zone Becomes A War Zone | Grey Zone Ep 8

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, March 1, 2021 • Duration 43:28

What happens when the grey zone becomes a war zone and what might future wars look like, with hypersonic missiles, artificial intelligence and cyber changing calculations?

These are questions Sky News journalist Deborah Haynes explores in this episode, in part, by looking at Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

She also talks to General Sir Nick Carter, the head of Britain’s armed forces, about what he thinks is the gravest threat to the UK and about how the military is adapting to operate in the grey zone.

Guests:
General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff
General Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Joint Command, now Strategic Command
Emine Dzhaparova , First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine
Sergei Markov, political scientist and former member of the Russian parliament
Keir Giles, senior consulting fellow at Chatham House
Orysia Lutsevych, head and research fellow, Ukraine Forum, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House

Credits:
Written and narrated by Deborah Haynes
Edited and produced by Chris Scott
Production support from Sophia McBide and Michael Greenfield
The Head of Sky News Radio is Dave Terris

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China - A Battle of Values | Grey Zone Ep 7

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, February 22, 2021 • Duration 46:25

This episode explores a global battle of values between China and leading democracies over issues like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Xinjiang.

It’s being fought with an array of covert weapons, from cyber attacks and information operations to economic coercion and even something called “lawfare”.

Allegations of such behaviour are made and denied by both sides, which of course is to be expected - in the grey zone.

Guests:
Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MP, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Matthew Turpin, visiting fellow, Hoover Institution
Charlie Parton, former British diplomat, senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute
Dr Shi Yinhong, Director of the Academic Committee of the School of International Studies and US Research Center of Renmin University in Beijing
Nathan Law, pro-democracy activist from Hong Kong
Julie Marionneau, research fellow, Policy Exchange
Freddy Lim, Taiwanese politician, lead singer of heavy-metal band Chthonic
Alexander Downer, former Australian foreign minister
Puma Shen, assistant professor at National Taipei University
Chinese embassy in London – via email statement

Credits:
Written and narrated by Deborah Haynes
Edited and produced by Chris Scott
Production support from Michael Greenfield
The head of Sky News Radio is Dave Terris

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Iran - The Hidden Hand | Grey Zone Ep 6

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, February 15, 2021 • Duration 40:11

On 3 January 2020, the United States killed Iran’s top spy master, Major General Qasem Soleimani, in a drone strike in Iraq.

There was nothing grey or ambiguous about the assassination, but this episode explores the escalating grey zone hostilities between Iran and the United States in the preceding years and how they almost ignited a real war.

Sky News journalist Deborah Haynes explores in particular how Iran allegedly uses proxy forces in the grey zone, under the threshold of war, to try to level the playing field when competing with a super power.

Interviews:
General David Petraeus, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
John Raine, Senior Adviser for Geopolitical Due Diligence, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Conservative MP and former UK defence minister. She now serves as energy minister
Fabian Picardo, Chief Minister of Gibraltar
Anonymous Iraqi MP
Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism, University of Tehran
Major General Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate

Credits:
Written and narrated by Deborah Haynes
Edited and produced by Chris Scott
Production support from Michael Greenfield
The head of Sky News Radio is Dave Terris

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