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Genre | Historical drama |
Written by | Peter Moffat |
Directed by | Tim Fywell |
Starring |
Tom Hollander Toby Stephens Samuel West Rupert Penry-Jones |
Composer(s) | John Lunn |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 (list of episodes) |
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Executive producer(s) | Laura Mackie Gareth Neame Sally Woodward Gentle |
Producer(s) | Mark Shivas |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Distributor | BBC |
Release | |
Original network | BBC Two |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Audio format | Stereo |
Original release | 9 May | – 30 May 2003
Cambridge Spies is a four-part BBC television drama, broadcast on BBC2 in May 2003, concerning the lives of the best-known quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies, from 1934 to the 1951 defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. The series was written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell. The complete series was released on DVD on 2 June 2003. Viewing figures for the series averaged at 2 million per episode.