It sees former ministers, military chiefs and other experts in an imagined underground war bunker trying to figure out how to defend the country
Sky News has unveiled five-part podcast series The Wargame, produced by Tortoise Media, that simulates how a Russian attack on the UK would play out.
The series was a year in the making but was recorded in just one day.
It involved former ministers, military chiefs and other experts in an imagined underground war bunker, with the participants in different war rooms trying to figure out how to defend the country.
Spiritland Productions led the outside broadcast for the production. It created a gallery installed in the basement meeting rooms and operated a six-hour recording across 10 remote cameras, 32 audio sources, 5 streams and a broadcast quality line cut for Sky News.
The brief was to stay as discreet as possible, says Spiritland Productions, to ensure all 22 participants were unaware of the OB company’s presence, so they could concentrate fully on the scenarios they were given.
Jasper Corbett, head of audio, Tortoise Media/The Observer, said: “We had only one chance to record and capture everything we needed. It was a complex, multi-room OB. Throughout the process, from inception through to production and beyond, Spiritland provided an unparalleled service, which meant we could really focus on the editorial side of the wargame.”
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