Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse

John Le Mesurier

Adrian Harris

Jack Hedley

James

Diana Fairfax

Lady Emma

Jon Laurimore

Thomas

Lyndon Brook

Sir Arthur Harris

Richard Marner

Michaelov

Terence Bayler

Duty Clerk

• Alan BridgesDirector
• Dennis PotterWriter
• Graeme MacDonaldProducer
• Peter CoulsonEditor

Release date

October 14, 1971

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

59m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie