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Secrets of Salisbury Poisonings

This is the real-life story of the Salisbury Poisonings. In March 2018, Sergei Skripal – a Russian spy recruited by MI6 – and his daughter Yulia were taken to hospital suffering from a mysterious illness. They had been poisoned by nerve agent Novichok, one of the deadliest substances on earth.

Novichok survivors Detective Nick Bailey and Charlie Rowley, the doctors and nurses who saved their lives, police on the frontline, Home Secretary Amber Rudd, and local eyewitnesses recall the events that devastated Salisbury and shocked the world, leaving one innocent woman dead and bringing relations between Russia and Britain to breaking point.’

Format:
1 X 72
Genre:
Factual
Year of production:
2021
Commissioning broadcasters:
Discovery+
Executive producers:
Donna Clark
Director:
Nick Poyntz
Editors:
Gordon Mason ACE