Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse
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John Le Mesurier
Adrian Harris
Known for
Dad's Army
Jabberwocky
Jack Hedley
James
Known for
The New York Ripper
For Your Eyes Only
Diana Fairfax
Lady Emma
Also in
Sense and Sensibility
Portrait of a Marriage
Jon Laurimore
Thomas
Known for
Jack the Ripper
Wallander
Lyndon Brook
Sir Arthur Harris
Known for
The Purple Plain
I, Claudius
Richard Marner
Michaelov
Known for
'Allo 'Allo!
The African Queen
Terence Bayler
Duty Clerk
Known for
Life of Brian
Macbeth
Alan Bridges Director · Dennis Potter Writer Peter Coulson Editor
First release October 14, 1971 · Produced in United Kingdom
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BBC
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United Kingdom
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English
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English
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United Kingdom · October 14, 1971
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