The Money Programme: Dirty Little Secrets

Dirty Little Secrets: Four spy stories from the business world
1 February 2008
The Money Programme
on BBC2

The temptation to gain an illegal advantage on your business competitors has never been higher. Companies now routinely employ private detectives to find out just what their competitors are up to.

In the first of a new series, the Money Programme's Max Flint lifts the lid on a murky world of phone taps, secret filming, break-ins and deception - all in search of a profit.

Last year Formula 1 team, McLaren, was fined £50 million after it received details of a rival car's design.

The Money Programme discovers that far from the glamour of F1, many other businesses are also relying on dirty tricks to give them that extra advantage.

Dirty Little Secrets is an Old Street Films production for BBC2 Money Programme.

Producer: Adrian Gatton
Director: Rob Lemkin
Executive Editor: Clive Edwards