The chairman of the KGB is hunting a spy who also happens to be a high-ranking Kremlin official who has been leaking secrets to the British.
Bucharensky (codename Kyril) is ordered to defect to Britain in order to panic the traitor into making a mistake.
Making his way across Europe to London, Kyril attracts the attention of the intelligence services of both East and West and becomes a target for both sides.
Waiting in London is Kyril’s deadliest enemy, Royston – a KGB mole whose life now depends upon silencing Kyril before he can disclose Royston’s identity as a Soviet double agent.
This compelling Cold War spy mini-series was scripted by John Hopkins from a book by John Trenhaile.
Kyril
Ian Charleson Michael Royston
Edward Woodward
‘C’
Joss Ackland
Sculby
Richard E Grant Stanov
Peter Vaughan Povin Denholm Elliott
Loshkevoi
John McEnery Peter Jackson
Hugh Fraser Yevchenko
Tor Stokke Loshkevoi
John McEnery Michaelov
Espen Skjønberg Stolynovitch
Sven-Bertil Taube Carter
Dermot Crowley Evans
Peter Wight Emma
Catherine Neilson Trumper
Charles Simon Detective Fitzgerald
Hugh Ross Head of Staff
Antony Carrick
