Summer of Rockets

Overview

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.

Network

• BBC Two

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Toby Stephens

  Samuel Petrukhin

  6 eps

• 

  Keeley Hawes

  Kathleen Shaw

  6 eps

• 

  Linus Roache

  Richard Shaw

  6 eps

• 

  Mark Bonnar

  Field

  6 eps

Themes

• inventor
• deaf-mute
• deaf
• cold war
• russian immigrant 
• mi5
• jewish family
• debutante
• missing son
• english upper class
• hearing aid

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