This fourpart drama relates the story of the cambridge spy ring. Dec 28, 2016 philby, burgess and maclean a granada tv drama written by ian curteis in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when british intelligence investigated. Cambridge spies online full episodes of season 1 yidio. May 09, 2003 when available, episode names will be translated into your preferred language. Drama tracing the tale of the most infamous double agents in british history.
The group was known as the cambridge spy rin, cambridge four, cambridge five and magnificent. Cambridge spies stars toby stephens as kim philby, samuel west as anthony blunt and rupert penryjones as donald maclean. Watch cambridge spies episodes online season 1 2003 tv. Otherwise they will be shown using the series origin language. More episode one s01e01 is the first episode of season one of cambridge spies released on fri may 09, 2003. It was first aired on 9 may 2003 and received numerous nominations including baftas and awards including the golden fipa biarritz international festival of audiovisual programming benedict cumberbatch had a featured part as edward hand in the fourpart series.
Cambridge spies is a madefortv drama produced by the bbc which dramatizes the true story of these unlikely secret agents, exploring how they worked together, and what finally brought their. The series attempts to look beyond their crimes by focusing on their dedication to their cause and to each other and how they belived they were serving their country. The notorious traitors burgess, maclean, blunt and philby met at cambridge. The first episode even begins with the ominous disclaimer. Cambridge spies is a bbc production based on a true story. Cambridge spies dvd, 2003, 2disc set, double case for sale. Guy burgess, one of the cambridge spies, speaks on his meeting with winston churchill. The true story of britains most infamous spies as it follows them from their iniitial recruitment by the kgb in the mid 1930s, as students at cambridge university, through the end of their careers in the 1950s. With tom hollander, toby stephens, rupert penryjones, samuel west. Cambridge spies is a fourpart bbc television drama, broadcast on bbc2 in may 2003, concerning the lives of the bestknown quartet of the cambridge five soviet spies, from 1934 to the 1951. The tale of the most infamous double agents in british history.
Intelligent drama following the careers of the cambridge spyring. Nov 22, 2003 throughout and following world war ii, the cambridge chums passed countless documents to the soviets. Cambridge spies is a fourpart bbc television drama, broadcast on bbc2 in may 2003, concerning the lives of the bestknown quartet of the cambridge five soviet spies, from 1934 to the 1951 defection of guy burgess and donald maclean to the soviet union. Blunt is close to the royal family, maclean joins the foreign office, burgess is in mi5 and philby is a journalist. Cambridge spies season 1 episode 2 episode two watch on kodi. Mark lawson cambridge spies is the latest of many dramatic takes on the cold war traitors. This fine bbc docudrama depicts the lives of the four cambridge spies from their university days, when they were recruited to do espionage work for the soviet union, through the defections of two of the four some twenty years later. Trinity college was so ashamed of the cambridge spies that studied there that it refused permission for the bbc to film there. Watch the cambridge spies season 1, episode 1 episode one.
Kim philby, anthony blunt, guy burgess, and donald maclean were members of britains upper class elite. Idealistic kim philby toby stephens is recruited by a pair of fellow dons to spy for the kgb. Its the true story of a group of cambridge university students who are recruited to spy for the soviet union in the early 1930s. At cambridge in the 1930s, don anthony blunt and student guy burgess recruit fellow students kim philby and donald maclean to fight fascism by spying for soviet russia. Cambridge spies 2003 in the 1930s, soviets recruit british collegians kim philby toby stephens, guy burgess tom hollander, anthony blunt samuel west and donald mclean as agents. In 1934, four outstanding students at cambridge universityguy burgess, anthony blunt, kim philby, donald macleanwho shared a passion for communism, were recruited to spy for the soviet union. Cambridge spies was a 2003 fourpart bbc television drama concerning the lives of the cambridge five from 1934 to the defection of guy burgess and donald maclean to the soviet union. Home series cambridge spies official order season 1. Maclean marries an american woman so that he can bring her into britain with him after the outbreak of war. Listen to the programmes from the radio 4 extra season. The complete series was released on dvd on 2 june 2003. Cambridge spies 2003 is a cold war drama, history tv series starring toby stephens and rupert penryjones. They now have to convince the powers that be that they have outgrown their juvenile leanings towards socialism and become members of the british establishment.
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It does not take philby too long to realise that it is not the british intelligence services who want them, but the russians. Samuel west reprises his role as anthony blunt from cambridge spies in the crown in 2019, in the season three episode titled olding. The group go underground as part of the establishment. Benedict cumberbatch appears in this second episode of cambridge spies. Tv time cambridge spies s01e01 episode one tvshow time. With toby stephens, marcel iures, tom hollander, michael parkhouse. The portlandbased punk band red dons is named after the cambridge five. Cambridge spies is a fourpart bbc television drama, broadcast on bbc2 in may 2003. Cambridge spies dvd, 2003, 2disc set, double case for. While at cambridge university two students, philby and maclean, are. Download cambridge spies e0104 torrent kickasstorrents. In 1934, cambridge undergraduates kim philby and donald maclean are recruited as spies. Cambridge spies season 1 episode 3 episode three watch on.
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