''Traitors'' is a British television drama miniseries created by

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and broadcast by

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and

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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.

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) *

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as Hugh Fenton, a Labour Party

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for a constituency in Derbyshire, and Royal Tank Regiment veteran *

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as Thomas Rowe, a senior American agent handler of the OSS *

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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 *

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as David Hennessey, a civil servant in the Ministry of Housing *

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as Freddie Symonds, Feef's brother, a closeted

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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

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song "There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land", recorded for the purpose by

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Episodes

References

External links

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