Cambridge Spies

Cambridge Spies
Genre	Historical drama
Written by	Peter Moffat
Directed by	Tim Fywell
Starring	Tom Hollander Toby Stephens Samuel West Rupert Penry-Jones
Composer(s)	John Lunn
Country of origin	UK
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producer(s)	Laura Mackie Gareth Neame Sally Woodward Gentle
Producer(s)	Mark Shivas
Running time	60 minutes
Distributor	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Picture format	16:9
Original release	9 May – 30 May 2003

Cambridge Spies is a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies from 1934 to the 1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. It was written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell.

Cast

• Guy Burgess - Tom Hollander
• Kim Philby - Toby Stephens
• Anthony Blunt - Samuel West
• Donald Maclean - Rupert Penry-Jones
• Litzi Friedman, first wife of Kim Philby - Lisa Dillon
• Julian Bell - Patrick Kennedy
• Prince of Wales - Julian Firth
• King George VI - Anthony Andrews
• Guy Liddell - Angus Wright
• John Cairncross - Alastair Galbraith
• James Angleton - John Light
• Colonel Winter - Ronald Pickup
• Melinda, wife of Donald Maclean - Anna-Louise Plowman
• Father May - David Savile
• Lord Halifax - James Fox
• Klaus Fuchs - Garrick Hagon
• Charlie Givens - Simon Woods
• Edward Hand - Benedict Cumberbatch
• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother - Imelda Staunton
• Arnold Deutsch - Marcel Iureș

External links

• Cambridge Spies at IMDb
• The Cambridge Spies by Phillip Knightley at BBC History
• The Cambridge Spies at BBC History
• BBC tackles 'glamorous' spies at BBC News
• Cambridge spies were 'flawed' at BBC News
• Cambridge Spies on Newsnight Review
• Cambridge Spies: Your views at BBC News
• Cambridge Spies at BBC Press Office