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The Courier

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

on BBC Two Wales HD

Available for 10 months

Recruited to infiltrate Cold War Moscow, salesman Greville Wynne becomes friends with Oleg Penkovsky, whose intel he carries to the CIA and MI6 from 1961. Show more

Contributors

Greville Wynne:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Oleg 'Alex' Penkovsky:
Merab Ninidze
Emily Donovan/'Helen':
Rachel Brosnahan
Sheila Wynne:
Jessie Buckley
Dickie Franks/'James':
Angus Wright
Bertrand:
Anton Lesser
Director:
Dominic Cooke

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