Cambridge Spies | How Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt and Cairncross were unmasked
Archive Hour | Spies Like Us
The network the KGB dubbed the 'Magnificent Five'.
CHANNEL | Radio 4
FIRST BROADCAST | 26 May 2001
DURATION | 56 minutes 24 seconds
FIRSTBROADCAST
2001
Synopsis
Simon Hoggart presents a comprehensive analysis of the lives and motivations of two of Britain's most notorious spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Their defection in 1951 would spark a hunt for a nest of traitors that would span three decades, bridge two continents and strike at the very heart of the British security services.
Did you know?
Author John Le Carre, who appears as a contributor in this programme, worked for both MI5 and MI6 during the 1950s and 1960s and was allegedly one of the dozens of operatives whose cover was blown by Kim Philby, another of the 'Cambridge Five'.
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