Episodes

  • Ep. 1: At Home With The Copelands
    Aug 31 2020

    Stewart and his sister Lennie remember a culturally rich and pampered upbringing, dragged around the Middle East by an often absent father. It felt like any normal family... until they discovered what dad really did.

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    31 mins
  • Ep. 2: The Shoot Out
    Aug 31 2020

    We’re in the company of Miles Axe Copeland II, in a world of lavish parties attended by great writers and mysterious colonels. The dangers of dad’s career become apparent when armed raiders break into the family home in Damascus.

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    28 mins
  • Ep. 3: Joining Up
    Aug 31 2020

    Miles survives the armed raid on his home, but was everything as it seemed? Stewart and his sister Lennie follow dad back to a childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, then into his exploits during the war. Miles meets the man who will eventually recruit him into the CIA, and receives the secret orders which change his life forever.

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    32 mins
  • Ep. 4: London
    Aug 31 2020

    A death at sea offers Miles some “exploitable opportunities”.... Arriving in London, he chases German spies, plots to murder a love rival and attempts to steal a safe containing the plans for D-Day. Dodging trouble, and German bombs, he finds his true calling - and a wife.

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    32 mins
  • Ep. 5: Game of Nations
    Aug 31 2020

    Miles convinces the CIA he is “thoroughly amoral” and is sent on special assignments in the Middle East. After masterminding a coup in Syria he turns his attention to regime change in Iran. Along the way there’s an extraordinary encounter with ‘The Cat Lady’.

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    38 mins
  • Ep. 6: Gamal Abdel Nasser
    Aug 31 2020

    Moving his family to Cairo, Miles strikes up a close relationship with General Gamel Abdel Nasser, grooming him for the Egyptian presidency... and finds himself at the centre of the Cold War power struggle.

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    28 mins
  • Ep. 7: Dirty Tricks
    Aug 31 2020

    Miles is drawn further into a world of exploding cigars, truth drugs and double agents. He plots the assassination of his General Nasser and befriends a man who will shock the world by defecting to the Soviet Union.

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    27 mins
  • Ep. 8: Spy Kids
    Aug 31 2020

    Stewart and Lennie attempt to separate fact from fiction in their father’s extraordinary life and consider whether their own lives were affected by their father’s lies and deceptions. And they hear from others who have grown up as the children of spies.

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    30 mins