'Jo Oldham's very readable book explores two of the most popular, but relatively neglected, forms of television drama: the spy drama and the conspiracy thriller. Generically related but epistemologically distinct, the changing nature of the two forms and the waxing and waning of their appearance on British television screens has much to do with the historical context of their production, ... Read moreas Oldham illustrates very well in a diachronic study [.] Such changes may not bode well for the radical potential of spy and conspiracy drama to stir things up in the future but it is to Oldham's credit that his well-researched and persuasively argued book makes us want to revisit some of the key 'paranoid narratives' of the last 50 years' Lez Cooke, Royal Holloway, University of London, Critical Studies in Television, Vol. 13, No. 4 (December 2018)
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