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Single spies [sound recording - audiobook] / Alan Bennett

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundSeries: Publication details: Bath : BBC Audiobooks, 2006Description: 2 audio CDs (90 mins.) : sd. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9781846071652 (sound discs)
Other title:
  • An Englishman abroad [sound recording - audiobook] [Distinctive title]
  • A question of attribution [sound recording - audiobook] [Distinctive title]
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Contents:
An Englishman abroad -- A Question of attribution
Production credits:
  • Produced by Susan Roberts
Scope and content: '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 Cral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England. Starved for information, Burgess interrogates her about English society gossip, and cajoles her into taking home measurements for a new pinstripe suit from his London tailor...Scope and content: '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 hime 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?
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First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 16 September 2006

An Englishman abroad -- A Question of attribution

Produced by Susan Roberts

'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 Cral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England. Starved for information, Burgess interrogates her about English society gossip, and cajoles her into taking home measurements for a new pinstripe suit from his London tailor...

'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 hime 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?

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