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Matthew Rhys to play legendary newspaper editor Sir Harry Evans in BBC drama

Dragon Slayers will explore the work of the journalist in the 1970s.

Evening Standard

The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – the strange case of Graham Greene and Kim Philby

Sex, booze and subterfuge in the story of an extraordinary friendship at the heart of MI6

The Guardian - UK

‘I once Bogarted a joint from a Beatle’: Stewart Copeland of the Police

The drummer and composer on cringeworthy celebrity encounters, why David Bowie is overrated, and being screamed at by Sting in front of 80,000 Italians

The Guardian - AU

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UK launched huge operation to find suspected Russian double agent in MI6

Exclusive: Operation Wedlock lasted up to 20 years and took MI5 teams across world amid panic about ‘another Philby’

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‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporter

The Guardian - UK

Queen Elizabeth II Unaware Of Art Adviser's Soviet Spy Past

Declassified files from Britain's National Archives reveal the double lives of Cambridge spies Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby, their espionage activities, an...

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MI5 files: The biggest secrets uncovered from the Cambridge Five archives

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies

The Independent UK

Scottish nationalists monitored by MI5 amid fears of help from France, files show

BRITISH security services were monitoring the Scottish nationalist movement – and feared the French government could be supporting it, newly…

The National (Scotland)

Philby had to choose ‘between suicide and prosecution’ before 1963 defection

Files released by National Archives reveal moment double agent was confronted by MI6 officer Nicholas Elliot

The Guardian - UK

MI5 files suggest queen was not briefed on spy in royal household for nine years

Documents indicate monarch was informed Anthony Blunt was Soviet agent in 1973, though he confessed in 1964

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth II ‘very calm’ when warned about Russian spy Anthony Blunt, newly released MI5 documents show

MI5 reveals confessions of three members of infamous Cambridge Five spy ring as tranche of documents released into National Archives

Evening Standard

Kim Philby owned up to spying for Russia – but said he would do it all again

Newly declassified files show the moment the notorious Cambridge double agent finally confessed to his treachery.

The Independent UK

Last secrets of notorious spy Kim Philby revealed: from traitor’s confession to Queen’s involvement

Trove of newly declassified files detail investigations into some of the country’s most notorious double agents, the ‘Ring of Five’, who passed information to the Soviets for three decades

The Independent UK

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Cambridge spy Blunt feared violence from his KGB controller

Newly-declassified files show notorious double agent refused ‘insane’ order to follow fellow spies Burgess and Maclean to Moscow.

Marie Claire

Prince Andrew's Friends Claim the Royal is "Sick and Tired" of the U.K. and Could "Do a Harry" by Moving to Middle East

"He can’t do anything here anymore, he can’t leave the house, he can’t do any business."

The Independent UK

Cold War double agent Kim Philby’s Moscow archive offered to British Library for £68,000

Kim Philby was recruited by Russia in the 1930s and soon rose to become a senior officer in MI6 before coming under suspicion in the 1950s

The Guardian - UK

British Library wanted to buy archive of double agent Kim Philby from his widow

National Archives files show officials were troubled by idea of institution enriching widow of Cambridge Five agent

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Don’t mention the war work at Bletchley Park: ‘I made the tea’

Letters: Sue Wells recalls her mother’s reply when asked what she did in the war, while Roger Robertson recounts how his parents were told to answer questions about their work at Bletchley, and Judith Rose celebrates achieving her doctorate

The Guardian - UK

Michael Culver obituary

Stage and screen actor known for his political campaigning, both in his choice of roles and his personal life

The Conversation

Friday essay: the secret lives of Ian Fleming and John Le Carré – the spymasters shaped by a lack of parental love

In 2022, writer Suleika Dawson published an intimate, refreshingly candid first-hand account of her passionate extramarital affair with David Cornwell – who worked as an intelligence agent for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and early 1960s, and wrote spy novels using the pseudonym John le Carré.

The Guardian - UK

I love history programmes. But there’s one trend that makes my blood boil …

If something happened centuries ago, let’s talk about it as if it happened centuries ago – not as if it was going on right now, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

The Real Spies Among Friends review – the person who comes out of this documentary best? Thatcher

So unworthy of our attention are the notorious Soviet spies behind the hit ITV drama that this look at their life even manages to make the ex Tory PM look good. Can we stop this now?

The Guardian - UK

TV Tonight: the real story behind ITV’s A Spy Among Friends

Kim Philby and friends get the documentary treatment before the drama concludes. Plus, another delightful working holiday for Fred Sirieix. Here’s what to watch this evening

WhatToWatch

TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, August 13

A Spy Among Friends is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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