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The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Episode 1: 1. Disaffection

Duration: 14 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Disaffection sets in for one of the KGB’s newest recruits. He's ready to turn double-agent for the British MI6.

Ben Macintyre's thrilling book tells the story of a KGB double-agent and plunges us into the Cold War’s underworld of espionage, duplicity and intrigue.

Read by Tim McInnerny.

Abridged in five parts by Richard Hamilton.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018. Show less

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