Summer of Rockets

Written and Directed by Stephen Poliakoff, this 6 episode Cold War miniseries is set in summer 1958 in Britain. It tells the story of Samuel (Stephen), a Jewish inventor and designer of bespoke hearing aids. He hopes to turn their fortunes around with his latest invention: the “staff locator”an early form of pager . Its first use is at St Thomas’s Hospital in London. But soon he gets entangled in a plot involving KGB and MI5.
Summer of Rockets is a Little Island production for BBC 2, and stars Keeley Hawes, Timothy Spall and Toby Stephens. I supplied sound fx editing and design for episode three of the miniseries.

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