Michael Gambon is Guy Burgess and Penelope Wilton the actress Coral Browne in Bennett's re-telling of a real-life incident. Whilst touring 'Hamlet' Moscow with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1958, Browne is astonished to have Burgess appear in her dressing room. Having disappeared from England in 1951 together with fellow diplomat Donald Maclean, spy Burgess is a wanted man. Bennett's take on the encounter is both poignant and comic, and the play examines his life in exile, his love of England and his even greater love of Russia. This full-cast dramatisation was originally broadcast on BBC World Service.
- ISBN10 0563535784
- ISBN13 9780563535782
- Publish Date 6 August 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 August 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher AudioGO Limited
- Imprint BBC Audiobooks Ltd
- Format Audiobook
- Duration 1 hours and 10 minutes
- Language English