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What's stopping members of the ethnic minorities from playing a key part in Britain's intelligence services: discrimination, loyalty or simple old-fashioned prejudice? A report leaked six years ago suggested that black and Asian intelligence officers were concerned about there being a racist culture. If the workforce was truly representative of Britain's ethnic makeup, then 12 per cent would be from the black, Asian and ethnic minorities, but it's not even a quarter of that.

The government's communications spying agency GCHQ is actively tackling this by seeking out new black and Asian recruits. Asian Network presenter Nihal Arthanayake, working alongside Radio 4, gets exclusive access to GCHQ to find out what is behind this policy, whether it will work and to ask what questions it raises. He talks to black and Asian staffers within the agency and interviews the director of GCHQ, together with the deputy director, who is the most senior non-white official in Britain's security services. He asks what the new initiative will mean for the new recruits and their relationships with their home communities.