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Single Spies
by Alan Bennett
Awards & Recognition
Olivier Award
Winner! 1990 Olivier Award, Best Comedy
Synopsis
A critically acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays, adapted for BBC Radio.
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 Coral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England.
Starved for information, Burgess interrogates her about English society gossip.
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 home 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?
Poignant and moving, these two brand new adaptations feature Simon Callow, Brigit
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1991
Binding Paperback
Edition New edition
Pages 104
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573018916
ISBN-10 057301891X
Single Spies is a British comedy play written by Alan Bennett and published by Samuel French (1991).
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