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1. The Defector

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4 Extra Debut. Translator Kate is caught between MI5 and MI6 over a Russian ballet dancer keen to defect. Stars Harriet Thorpe. From 1993.

London 1960. Ballet star Jan Petrowski wants to defect.

MI5 wants to help him, MI6 wants to send him back.

Kate Phillips, translator for the MI5/MI6 liaison department, hasn't the faintest idea what she should do.

Smiley's People was never like this....

For the general public British Intelligence is a bit like cricket, very few people actually understand it, almost no one sees it in action but it's always nice to know it's there.

Written by Peter Kerry in six parts.

Kate .... Harriet Thorpe
Sir Stephen .... John Wells
Sir Donald .... Donald Pickering
Michael .... Douglas Hodge
Edward .... William Vandyck
The Interrogator .... Gordon Reid
Jan Petrowski .... Christopher Rozycki

Producer Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1993.

30 minutes

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