A Spy Among Friends (2022)

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Season 1

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6. No Man's Land

5. Snow

4. Vodka

3. Allegory of the Catholic Faith

Cast

Guy Pearce (Kim Philby)Damian Lewis (Nicholas Elliott)Anna Maxwell Martin (Lily Thomas)Adrian Edmondson (Sir Roger Hollis)Stephen Kunken (James Jesus Angleton)Monika Gossmann (Galina)Nicholas Rowe (Sir Anthony Blunt)Lucy Russell (Jane Sissmore)Lucy Akhurst (Elizabeth Elliott)Puiu Mircea Lascus (Russian Drunk)Jennifer Marsala (Iris)Alexander Terentyev (Orchis)Anastasia Hille (Flora Solomon)Karel Roden (Col. Sergei Brontov)Gershwyn Eustache Jnr (Dr Robert Thomas)Gilly Gilchrist (MI5 Plumber)Alex Price (Watcher)Steven Elder (Tim Milne)

Creators

Alexander Cary, Ben Macintyre

Synopsis

In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union.