Summer of Rockets(2019)

series - first aired/released 2019-05-22 - audience 6.5

Drama

Directed by Stephen Poliakoff

Samuel, a Russian-born Jewish inventor who specialises in the development of hearing aids, is tasked with a secret mission by MI5 to use his technological expertise to contribute to western Cold War efforts. Following the tensions of the space race and the first hydrogen bomb test, Samuel's efforts factor in to the emergence of the modern world.