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  • The Big Bluff | The Wargame Ep 7

    December 2, 2025 · 60 min

    In this final episode, discover what happens as the threat from Russia returns and the UK attempts to rearm.  Join us for The Wargame: Decoded on January 29th in London.  - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?   The Wargame from Sky…

  • The Ministry of Defiance | The Wargame Ep 6

    December 2, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

    So, how has the UK been left so poorly defended? Candid interviews with almost every real-life defence secretary since the end of the Cold War reveal all.  Join us for The Wargame: Decoded on January 29th in London.    - Russia knows our…

  • The Choice | The Wargame Ep 5

    June 23, 2025 · 54 min

    Hostilities worsen despite attempts to broker a ceasefire. What happens next requires difficult decisions and hard choices.   - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?  A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines…

  • Ultimatum | The Wargame Ep 4

    June 16, 2025 · 58 min

    A city is on fire. The UK fights back. Russia and Britain both have nuclear weapons. Will either country use them?   - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?  A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a…

  • Where's the War Book? | The Wargame Ep 3

    June 16, 2025 · 49 min

    The Prime Minister must address the nation. Meanwhile his ministers and officials do their best to deal with a crisis the UK hasn’t seriously prepared for in a generation.  - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?  A major five-part…

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  • Armed Attack | The Wargame Ep 2

    June 9, 2025 · 54 min

    Hostilities with Russia erupt into an unprecedented attack. The Prime Minister and his team scramble to respond. Will the UK’s allies choose to help them?  - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?  A major five-part series from Sky News…

  • False Flag | The Wargame Ep 1

    June 9, 2025 · 59 min

    Tensions with Russia escalate, and an imaginary week in the near future takes a turn for the unexpected. The Prime Minister calls an emergency Cobra meeting. - Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?  A major five-part series from Sky…

  • Introducing... The Wargame

    May 20, 2025 · 3 min

    A bunker. A scenario. A group of former senior ministers, military chiefs and other experts. Russia knows our weaknesses – but do you?    Sky News' security and defence editor Deborah Haynes presents The Wargame – a major new five-part…

  • Cyber Power (Part I) - Cyber Pearl Harbour | Grey Zone Ep 4

    February 1, 2021 · 42 min

    States, criminals and terrorists all use cyber to attack each other in the grey zone. It puts anyone with a computer in the firing line, but also means that anyone who understands computers has the ability to fight back. This episode…

  • Hack & Leak | Grey Zone Ep 3

    January 25, 2021 · 41 min

    This episode looks at the grey zone weapon of hacking information – like private emails or documents – and then leaking it online to try to influence people or damage reputations. It is a tactic Russia’s military intelligence agency, the…

  • Truth vs Lies | Grey Zone Ep 2

    January 18, 2021 · 47 min

    This episode explores a battle between truth and lies that’s threatening democracies around the world. It looks at how information is used as a weapon, not just by hostile foreign states, seeking to divide and weaken rival nations, but…

  • The Gathering Storm | Grey Zone Ep 1

    January 10, 2021 · 48 min

    This episode seeks to explain what the grey zone is. It includes a warning from General Sir Nick Carter, the head of the UK’s armed forces, and Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, about the danger of ignoring attacks in this murky space…

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About the show

Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?    A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-life former ministers, military chiefs and other experts to figure out how to defend the country.    Written and presented by Sky News' security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes. This is Deborah's second podcast series for Sky News. In her first series, Into The Grey Zone, Deborah explores the murky evolution of warfare. What do assassinations, cyber hacks and disinformation have in common? They're all weapons used by states against each other in a grey zone of harm under the threshold of war, but could be just as dangerous if ignored.