Single Spies

A critically acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays adapted for BBC Radio. An Englishman Abroad - It is 1958 and in a squalid flat in Moscow double-agent Guy Burgess is hiding from the world. When he is visited by actress Coral Browne he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England. Starved for information Burgess interrogates her about English society gossip. A Question of Attribution - In 1956 Sir Anthony Blunt - pillar of the Establishment and respected Knight of the Realm - is working as Surveyor of the Queen''s Pictures. Perfectly at home in the corridors of Buckingham Palace he frequently encounters Her Majesty as he works on her paintings and has a special fondness for one particular Titian. However there is one small problem: the painting like Blunt himself is a fake. Is the Queen aware that her enigmatic servant might also be other than he seems? Poignant and moving these two brand new adaptations feature Simon Callow Brigit