When is Salisbury: Nerve Agent Attack on BBC tonight and what’s the ‘Inside Story’?
BBC Panorama reveal in-depth analysis and insight from the key voices who found themselves at the heart of the Salisbury poisoning drama
THE deadly poisoning of four people in Salisbury earlier this year has thrown up worrying safety questions for Brits.
How do you protect yourself from invisible chemicals that can kill at a mere touch? A BBC documentary revisits the events surrounding the substance known as Novichok.
When is Salisbury: Nerve Agent Attack on BBC tonight?
The hour-long programme will air tonight at 8pm on BBC One.
In the trailer for the programme, friend of poisoned Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess Sam Hobson describes the moment his pals began foaming at the mouth after picking up a contaminated perfume bottle they found on the floor.
What's the 'Inside Story'?
With exclusive access to the Salisbury investigation, the BBC's Jane Corbin examines the inside story of the Russian attempt to assassinate former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
The Panorama special recounts the inside story of how Russia sent assassination duo Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov to Salisbury to murder the Salisbury resident.
For the first time we hear from front-line police officers, the government's chemical weapons scientist, soldiers drafted in to decontaminate the city, diplomats and intelligence insiders.
Ms Corbin travels to Russia to speak to friends and family of the former spy Russia wanted dead, and in America she hears from the scientist who helped develop the deadly nerve agent that killed Dawn Sturgess and hospitalised her partner Charlie Rowley.
The event, which left four people lucky to be alive and one dead, has had an impact far beyond Britain, with the US and its European allies expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a co-ordinated response to the poisonings.