Bear Hunt

A British passenger jet has crashed into the North Sea with 350 on board. GCHQ monitoring and Royal Navy vessels establish GPS interference from a hostile power brought it down. With an election just weeks away Prime Minister Alex Kernoway's options are limited, Washington is insisting on restraint in an effort to preserve peace talks in Ukraine. 15 years earlier Tom "Duffy" MacDuff was in the heat of battle in Helmand province.

Strong language, violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

Thomas Mitchells as Alex Kernoway

Naomi Miller as Mel Murray

Luke Jasztal as Sir Pilgrim Moore

Donald Pirie as Tom "Duffy" MacDuff

Freddie Trenholme as Shaun Wade

Michael Ashtiany as Scott "Robbo" Robertson

Lauren Ingram as Miriam Brann

Nalan Burgess as Azra Simsek

Scott Tunnix as Sam Kernoway

Karim Kronfli as Peter Kernoway

Romy Emery as Grace Kernoway

Muhammad Luqman as Mohammed "Ram" Ramdani

Lance Fuller as US President

Denis Michallet as President Tousart

Nicolas Sayce as Anthony Harcourt

Dan Rhun as Phil

Joel Emery as Ben

Harry Frost as Air Investigation Technician

Trev Fleming as Show Voice

Additional voices

Adam Jarrell

Darcey Ferguson

Joel Emery

Rahmat Dewan

Lucy Carpenter

Edited by: Joel Emery

Technical Producer: David Allen

Written by: Joel Emery

Directed by: Adam Jarrell and Joel Emery

Producer: Neil Fearn

Executive Producer: Tony Pastor

Music provided by Audionetwork

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350 British civilians are dead and Russia is responsible. Number 10 hits back as a hapless Prime Minister plays his hand in the age of regime decapitation.
Bear Hunt is a technically rigorous action drama exploring the political manoeuvres, operational challenges and conflict expertise required to assassinate a head of state.

Billed as a British Bourne, this geopolitical thriller pulls listeners into the white-hot corridors of power in Westminster and Washington. To the battlefields where the nation’s best learnt their killing trade. And to the mission itself, deep behind enemy lines.

Goalhanger’s award-winning drama team worked with current and former military and defence professionals to shape the most accurate and daring mission conceivable: a forensic exploration of what it takes, in the modern age, to kill the President of the Russian Federation.

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