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Episode Synopsis
This week, Access All lives up to its name - we’ve been granted permission to go inside MI5 and meet an autistic senior intelligence officer.
Liam (not his real name and voiced by an actor) tells Emma Tracey what it’s like to work as a senior manager and the responsibility he feels for protecting public security.
He reveals the moment he first experienced autistic burnout and the strategies he has learned to cope going forward. Liam goes on to describe the support he was offered by MI5 and his colleagues.
The BBC’s Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera, also drops by to give the inside story on the role of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency and offers up some interesting spy stories from the past.
Presenter: Emma Tracey
Producer: Alex Collins
Actor voicing Liam: Matthew McCloud
Mixed by Dave O'Neill
Editors: Beth Rose and Daniel Gordon
The Access All team love hearing from you. You can email [email protected] or find @bbcaccessall on X and Instagram.
Liam (not his real name and voiced by an actor) tells Emma Tracey what it’s like to work as a senior manager and the responsibility he feels for protecting public security.
He reveals the moment he first experienced autistic burnout and the strategies he has learned to cope going forward. Liam goes on to describe the support he was offered by MI5 and his colleagues.
The BBC’s Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera, also drops by to give the inside story on the role of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency and offers up some interesting spy stories from the past.
Presenter: Emma Tracey
Producer: Alex Collins
Actor voicing Liam: Matthew McCloud
Mixed by Dave O'Neill
Editors: Beth Rose and Daniel Gordon
The Access All team love hearing from you. You can email [email protected] or find @bbcaccessall on X and Instagram.
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