On 9^th August 1965, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew announced that Singapore would split from Malaysia. The decision provoked anger from Malaysia and shock from the United Kingdom, Singapore’s former coloniser. Lee Kuan Yew’s emotional television address is etched into the Singaporean collective memory. However, the secret history of separation has only recently begun to emerge with the declassification of hundreds of top-secret documents from the National Archives of the United Kingdom.

With access to these recently declassified documents and personal letters from key insiders, this gripping political docu-thriller reveals covert deals, Cold War intrigue and even assassination plots that surrounded Singaporean independence.

60 years on, what really happened in the pivotal 100 days surrounding 9^th August 1965?