Traitors (miniseries) explained
Traitors is a British television drama miniseries created by Bathsheba Doran and broadcast by Channel 4 and Netflix in 2019. Set in 1945 London after the end of World War Two, Traitors follows a young woman recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to identify a Soviet spy in the Cabinet Office.[1]
Cast and characters
- Emma Appleton as Feef Symonds, a young, naive and intelligent upper-class civil servant in the Cabinet Office, recruited as an agent by the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
- Luke Treadaway as Hugh Fenton, a Labour Party Member of Parliament for a constituency in Derbyshire, and Royal Tank Regiment veteran
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Thomas Rowe, a senior American agent handler of the OSS
- Keeley Hawes as Priscilla Garrick, a senior civil servant of the Cabinet Office
- Brandon P. Bell as Jackson Cole, an American army driver and Rowe's assistant at the OSS
- Matt Lauria as Peter McCormick, an American army soldier and a staff of the OSS
- Greg McHugh as David Hennessey, a civil servant in the Ministry of Housing
- Jamie Blackley as Freddie Symonds, Feef's brother, a closeted gay man, and an unsuccessful Conservative Party parliamentary candidate
- Danny Sapani as Richard, an American communist living in London
- Bijan Daneshmand as Abu Selim, Minister from the Arab League addressing the Cabinet Office
Music
The series begins and each episode ends, with a recording of the Pete Seeger song "There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land", recorded for the purpose by Graham Coxon.[2]
Notes and References
- Web site: Meet the cast of Channel 4 spy thriller Traitors. Radio Times.
- Web site: Traitors, Channel 4 . Broadcast . 23 December 2019 . en.
