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Traitor

7.5 59 mins Drama   TV Movie   1971
BBC  
Director(s): Alan Bridges

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

Casts of Traitor

John Le Mesurier

as Adrian Harris

Jack Hedley

as James

Diana Fairfax

as Lady Emma

Jon Laurimore

as Thomas

Lyndon Brook

as Sir Arthur Harris

Richard Marner

as Michaelov

Terence Bayler

as Duty Clerk

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