An Englishman Abroad.mp3

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A dramatisation by the finest writer today in the English language, Alan Bennett, of true events.

In the late 1950s the actress Coral Browne (who in the original TV version of this played herself) was in Moscow with the Royal Shakespeare Company. There she was accosted by the drunken. homosexual double agent Guy Burgess, who together with his fellow double agent Donald Maclean, had some years earlier to Moscow.

Burgess by the time of their meeting had grown home sick, and a strange friendship developed between actress and spy......

Beautifully written as ever by AB.