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Screen Two: Blunt

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A screenplay by Robin Chapman
Starring Ian Richardson as Anthony Blunt, Anthony Hopkins as Guy Burgess, Michael Williams as Goronwy Rees

May 1951. Anthony Blunt, ex-MI5 officer and now trusted member of the Royal Household, has been a Soviet agent for 15 years. The Cambridge spy ring which he helped to found with Guy Burgess in the 1930s, is in deep crisis. Donald Maclean has come under MI5 suspicion and must be persuaded to defect to Moscow.
Feature: page 8 and Films: page 19
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Robin Chapman
Make-up Designer:
Caroline Noble
Costume Designer:
Collin Lavers
Designer:
Colin Shaw
Film Editor:
Jim Latham
Photography:
John McGlashan
Producer:
Martin Thompson
Director:
John Glenister
Anthony Blunt:
Ian Richardson
Guy Burgess:
Anthony Hopkins
Goronwy Rees:
Michael Williams
Margie Rees:
Rosie Kerslake
Rees children:
Emma Cottrell
Rees children:
Casey Doy
Guy Liddell:
Geoffrey Chater
Vasily:
Albert Welling
Donald Maclean:
Michael McStay
Postman:
John Rapley
Jimmy:
Graham Hoadly
Equerry:
Mark Elwes
Chauffeur:
Christopher Denham
Footman:
David Goodwin
Commissionaire:
Tony Scott
Club steward:
Frank Tregear
Source: Radio Times

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