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Drama on 4: Jonathan Holloway - The Old Spies

The Old Spies

03/03/2011

Jonathan Holloway - The Old Spies

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Jonathan Holloway - The Old Spies

Three former spies, now in an old people's home, remember their old missions.

4 Extra Debut. Three former spies, now in an old people's home, remember their old missions. Stars John Nettles, Clive Swift and Eleanor Bron.

A new play by Jonathan Holloway about three former spies in an old peoples' home. They talk and remember their old missions and rage against the dying of their lights. They now have nowhere to go but hold on to the stories of their adventurous lives as they feel their own minds, memories and personalities shifting.

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