NEW TRANSMISSION TIMES….STOP PRESS*** The first episode of Spy Secrets goes out at 8pm on Friday 27th August and then 3rd and 10th September same time *** Look out for this three part series that I narrated for Channel 5 – It’s called Spy Secrets and it will be on in August once it’s been legalled. Two things I particularly like. Firstly seeing the extraordinarily busy undercover work out of the UK Embassies in the Cold War. It’s a wonder they ever found time to issue visas. My dad – John Gibbon – was Military Attache to the Moscow Embassy at the time. He’s never told us what went on – perhaps that’s why he was given the MBE. And then there’s the alleged MI6 plan to assassinate Slobodan Milosevic in a road tunnel..which looks remarkably like how Diana ended up dying. Allegedly. Oooh spooky.

I narrated this documentary last night I was very pleased with it, despite the sadness of the subject matter The Radio Times liked it: "this is brilliant, taut, eye-opening TV… Their reminiscences are almost poetic at times…And there are powerful images.. But overall the programme’s message is clear: any idea that because the Belgrano was outside the exclusion zone it should not have been fired on is daft. As it turned out, its sinking effectively defeated the Argentinian navy at a stroke, helping to turn a finely balanced conflict." It was Pick of the Day/Choice in the Mirror, the Express, the Times and Sunday Times, and the Guardian so many thanks to Jeremy Evans and everyone at Icon Films in Bristol.