Traitor

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

Cast

John Le Mesurier Adrian Harris Jack Hedley James Diana Fairfax Lady Emma

Jon Laurimore Thomas

Lyndon Brook Sir Arthur Harris Richard Marner Michaelov Terence Bayler Duty Clerk

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