by John Le Carre, dramatised by Arthur Hopcraft
Starring Peter Egan, Ray McAnally, Alan Howard, Rudiger Weigang, Jane Booker and Peggy Ashcroft
Fifth of seven episodes
'We are aiming for the very top, Sir Magnus. One day, America! Land of the free! Two men such as ourselves can live out our lives as spies without ever having spied on the Americans? It cannot be!'
(Shown last Wednesday on BBC2)
(Ceefax subtitles)