1964: Former MI6 officer Paul Wilder is a man caught between two worlds. Unable to explain his escape from East Berlin, he’s tried to put his old life behind him. Dragged back into a secret world of new enemies and suspicious allies, can Wilder come to terms with his past or does he risk losing his mind?

THE DIVIDE is a 12-part spy thriller releasing weekly from October 2025 to January 2026.

THE DIVIDE was created by Matthew Woodcock.

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Credits

Mark Desebrock as Paul Wilder

Mark Desebrock trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

At the legendary Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, Mark has appeared in The Tempest, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Pericles, Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His other stage work includes Hedda Gabler, Potted Panto, It’s A Wonderful Life, The Snow Queen (Reading Rep), Hamlet (Almeida West End), Cis and Barbiche (Agelink/York Theatre Royal/UK and Australian tour); Shadows (Professional Help Productions), The Seed (Goat and Monkey), Matilda, Mike & Dan (Pleasance Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (National Theatre), Pericles (Rose Theatre, Kingston), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Warhorse Theatreworks), Molière (National Theatre Studio/Finborough) and A Little Neck (Goat and Monkey/Hampton Court Palace).

On film, Mark has appeared in Anagram, Bright Star, Still Life and The Course, and his television work includes Hamlet on the BBC, and Fungus the Bogeyman. His video game work includes Karma: The Dark World and Cryptmaster.

EJ Martin as June Dalton

EJ Martin is a two-time OFFIE nominee for Best Actress (one of these she lost out to Imelda Staunton on, which she thought was fair enough).

EJ’s credits include Allied (where she got to get her make-up done sitting next to Marion Cotillard for a week), the national tour of A Room With a View (where Felicity Kendall once kindly served the whole cast miniature sausage rolls wearing a makeshift wimple made out of a napkin), and Casualty on BBC One (where she had to emote for a whole episode dressed as a steampunk, lying immobile on a bed in a neck brace).

EJ was also one half of theatre production company pluck. productions, which produced the first professionally-staged productions of numerous talented British playwrights who have since gone on to billings at The Bush, the Royal Court, and the National Theatre.

Simon Kane as Mr Spooner

Simon Kane is an actor, performer, and associate artist of the theatre collective Shunt.

As a voice actor, Simon is probably best known for the award-winning Radio 4 sketch show John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme, but his service for the BBC also includes John Finnemore’s Double Acts, Angstrom, Agendum, Before They Were Famous, North By Northamptonshire: Full Stop, The Now Show, and his own Time Spanner.

Simon is a staple of Audible’s Hercule Poirot mysteries and has recently appeared in a number of Big Finish productions, most notably Torchwood, as the butler Forster, and The Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, as the robot 312.

By far Simon’s most important work though, has been as Sir Maxwell House, and sundry other idiots and monsters, in Definitely Human’s The Monster Hunters.

Rachel Hinds as Rebekah Swift

Rachel Hinds appeared in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Palace Theatre, performing as and covering roles including Rose Granger-Weasley, Moaning Myrtle and Polly Chapma.

Rachel played the lead role of Sarah in the multi-award-winning international radio dramas Jabota Bridge and Holding Esther, and has voiced numerous projects for Oxford University Press.

Most recently, Rachel could be heard as Froze in the radio play Epidemic.

Also Featuring…
Amelie Edwards – [REDACTED]
Matthew Woodcock – [REDACTED]
Ben Whitehead – [REDACTED]
Emma Spearing – [REDACTED]
Krage Brown – [REDACTED]
Panny Skrivanos – [REDACTED]
Omar Khan – [REDACTED]

With…
Jen Sugden, Chris Sugden, Kate Sketchley, Robin Hellier, Seynam Kluvitse, Will Firth and Simon Barnes-Sadler

Matthew Woodcock – Creator, Writer, Director and Producer of The Divide

Matthew Woodcock is a producer, actor and writer.

Matthew’s BBC producer credits include RAW and Sounds Iconic.

On stage, Matthew has appeared in Iago’s Little Book of Calm at Theatre 503, The Universal, Grand Guignol at Etcetera Theatre Camden, The St Valentine’s Day Murder at Lost Theatre, as Dr. Watson in Sherlock (Abridged) (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and Peter Cushing in Gentlemen of Horror at The Woolwich Grand.

Matthew’s audio credits include Big Finish’s Doctor Who: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield, The Springheel Saga, Sherlock Holmes Strikes Back and Galaxicabs for Wireless Theatre, The Bunker, Down and MarsCorp for Definitely Human, Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Free Mason for Good Pointe and has narrated The Baking Brigade for Cariad House.

Matthew wrote episodes of Down for Definitely Human and is the writer and co-creator of The Monster Hunters with Peter Davis across stage and audio.

THE DIVIDE is a Definitely Human production