Secret Agent Selection: WW2

2018
Secret Agent Selection: WW2

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Season 1 : 2018 5 Episodes

EP1 Episode 1 Apr 09, 2018

EP2 Episode 2 Apr 16, 2018

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 students need to show a calm head and a killer instinct when handling real weapons, but not everyone makes the grade.

EP3 Episode 3 Apr 23, 2018

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 the same techniques which prepared a group of agents tasked with putting a stop to Hitler's atomic ambitions in Norway. In a freezing Scottish lake and on a sheer rock face, some of the students are forced to find previously-untapped reserves of mental and physical strength.

EP4 Episode 4 Apr 30, 2018

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.

EP5 Episode 5 May 08, 2018

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.
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Released: 09 April 2018 Ended
Producted By: BBC
Country: United Kingdom
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Official Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zg6dm
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The training programme of one of World War Two's most covert organisations, the Special Operations Executive or SEO, is resurrected.

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superrobb-44243 I really enjoyed this show. It show much about what WW2 spies had to go through before going in to occupied europe. I would recommend to any spy or history buffs.
ghatbkk I wasn't quite sure I wanted to watch this, but once I got started, I'm happy I did. The historical links are solid and well-presented. Whether SOE was really as effective as the series hints at or not is a matter of conjecture, but there is absolutely no denying that the SOE training and missions had a significant effect not just on WWII, but on the development of the CIA para-military units, post-war SAS and the US Army Special Forces. It was very interesting to see a very varied group from today put through the SOE syllabus and training program, to include peer assessment and self-selection (drops) that are still an integral part of SOF selection today. I was only surprised by one of the non-selections and none of the selections.
jbpublic Like other history reality series (Manor House, 1940s House), it is fascinating to see contemporary individuals come to grips with historical tools and processes ... and then have to 'make them work' to achieve a goal. Fourteen start, six survive -- and not necessarily the ones you'd expect. The facilitator judges are credible also, so it's an interesting insight into the British secret service in WWII. While some of the historical facts seemed slightly breathless and overblown, the human element was quite real and credibly done.
bob-1135 For a start will someone please tell these people how to dress? The so called ex Colonel has jammed his side cap over his head like a tea cosy. His pips are way off on his epaulettes. The uniforms only seem to fit where they touch. As for weapons training you have to be joking, when you fire a weapon, short or long, you lean forward into it, not backwards like all these seem to be doing. The section on first introductions to firearms was a joke. Golden rule one, never point it anyone unless you want to kill them, second golden rule every time you handle a new fire arm check to see if it was loaded. The instructor failed to ensure his class did this. They then put their pistols in their pockets, great way to shoot yourself. I don't know why they had the ludicrous stuffing explosives into dead rats exercise, far better to show them how to blow things up. All in all a pretty poor show.