These programmes examine the gradual exposure of the Cambridge Spies and reveal how the names Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt and 'fifth man' Cairncross became synonymous with treachery at the ...

Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross - whose details are all included in the exhibit - were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. Philby's confession to ...

Philby fled to Moscow where he died in 1988, telling Elliott he faced the choice “between suicide and prosecution". The Cambridge spies have inspired myriad of books, plays, movies and TV shows.

The Spies is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1966. A spin-off or rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies was a more conventional espionage thriller ...

Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University ... and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115 ...

While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential in recruiting the other three, who were all students there. Burgess became a journalist after he left university, but on the outbreak ...