Single Spies: An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett

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**** 4 Extra marks 75 years since British diplomats turned KGB spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, defected to the Soviet Union on May 25th 1951 Two classic Alan Bennett spy dramas performed together. An Englishman Abroad 1958. A squalid flat in Moscow. Over a paltry lunch, exiled spy Guy Burgess interrogates actress Coral Browne about English society gossip and then asks her to get him some new clothes from London. Guy Burgess .... Simon Callow Coral .... Brigit Forsyth Tailor .... Robert Pickavance Tolya/Shop assistant .... Peter Swander Pianola and Balalaika played by Matthew Compton and David Carol. A Question of Attribution Set in the 1960s, before Professor Anthony Blunt, the director of the Courtauld Institute, was exposed and disgraced as a spy. Blunt is replacing a Titian at the Palace when Her Majesty the Queen comes in. The painting is a fake. Anthony Blunt .... Edward Petherbridge Chubb .... Nicky Henson The Queen .... Prunella Scales Colin .... Harry Myers Restorer .... Robert Pickavance Philips .... Dan Stevens Producer Susan Roberts First broadcast on Radio 4 in September 2006.