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MI5 files: The biggest secrets uncovered from the Cambridge Five archives

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies

The Independent UK

Philby had to choose ‘between suicide and prosecution’ before 1963 defection

Files released by National Archives reveal moment double agent was confronted by MI6 officer Nicholas Elliot

The Guardian - UK

Elizabeth II ‘very calm’ when warned about Russian spy Anthony Blunt, newly released MI5 documents show

MI5 reveals confessions of three members of infamous Cambridge Five spy ring as tranche of documents released into National Archives

Evening Standard

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Kim Philby owned up to spying for Russia – but said he would do it all again

Newly declassified files show the moment the notorious Cambridge double agent finally confessed to his treachery.

The Independent UK

Cold War double agent Kim Philby’s Moscow archive offered to British Library for £68,000

Kim Philby was recruited by Russia in the 1930s and soon rose to become a senior officer in MI6 before coming under suspicion in the 1950s

The Independent UK

‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup

Norman Darbyshire had a modest upbringing but had a knack for adaptation and languages that helped him to make influential contacts

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, August 13

A Spy Among Friends is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, July 16

World on Fire is just one of the gems on TV tonight.

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TV Tonight: Irresistible reality TV format The Traitors gets an Aussie remix

Addictive reality machinations down under. Plus Bettany Hughes is exploring India. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

A Spy Among Friends: release date, cast, interviews, plot, trailer, first looks and all about the espionage drama

A Spy Among Friends stars Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce in an espionage thriller based on a true story of treachery during the Cold War.

WhatToWatch

TV tonight: Our highlights for Sunday, July 9

A Spy Among Friends is just one of the gems on TV tonight

WhatToWatch

The week in TV: I Am Ruth; Harry & Meghan; A Spy Among Friends; The Confessions of Frannie Langton

Kate Winslet and daughter hit home; the Sussexes’ docu-marathon gets under way; Guy Pearce excels as a sharkish Kim Philby; and hats off to the ‘anti-Bridgerton’

The Guardian - UK

'ITV's A Spy Among Friends so good it should be savoured and not binged'

The small screen spectacle of Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce and Anna Maxwell Martin in ITV's A Spy Among Friends should be savoured and not devoured, says Ian Hyland

Daily Mirror

Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past

Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…

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Telling the tale of two spies: Ben Macintyre and Alexander Cary Q&A

ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends, starring Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis, throws new light on the Kim Philby affair via his friendship with (and brutal betrayal of) fellow MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott. Here writer Adam Smith talks to executive producer Alexander Carey and author Ben Macintyre (whose book the…

The Independent UK

A Spy Among Friends review: ITVX’s big-budget adaptation is like a slug of hot mulled wine

Guy Pearce and Damien Lewis star in the inside story of the capture of Soviet double-agent

The Guardian - UK

A Spy Among Friends review – don’t take your eyes off this star-packed espionage thriller

Guy Pearce is a charismatic traitor, Damian Lewis is an enigma and Anna Maxwell Martin carries along a fabulous drama that’s full of excitement – if a tad stuffy

The Guardian - UK

What’s On: George & Tammy, and TV’s love affair with tragic country stars

In the first edition of our new TV newsletter: Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain’s drama strikes a chord. Plus: our picks of the week, and Harry & Meghan arrives on Netflix

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Evening Standard

A Spy Among Friends on ITVX review: terrific cast, disappointing material

Damian Lewis is impossibly po-faced in this buttoned-up espionage drama

The Guardian - UK

Anna Maxwell Martin: ‘I never get offered drugs. People think I’m a child’

As she prepares to play an MI5 interrogator in a thrilling new cold war drama, the Bafta winner talks about coping with death, lacking confidence – and how she’s always wanted to be Kate Winslet

Evening Standard

What to watch on ITVX, from A Spy Among Friends to Litvinenko to Riches

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Daily Mirror

How Britain’s most notorious Cold War spy betrayed lifelong friend who never recovered

The relationship between Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby is the focus of new star studded drama A Spy Among Friends, with Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce playing the key roles

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