Friend Or Foe?

Keeley Hawes and Toby Stephens star in a tense Cold War espionage drama

The year is 1958 and, with the Cold War at its height, Britain is testing its first hydrogen bomb, while America and Russia battle it out in the space race. This is the backdrop for Stephen Poliakoff ’s six-part drama that revolves around Russian-born inventor Samuel Petrukhin (Toby Stephens).

Living in London with his wife and children, Samuel is dragged into an espionage plot involving the English aristocracy when he makes bespoke hearing aids for a relative of British MP Richard Shaw (Linus Roache).