Audio from Chalke Valley History Festival 2018.
Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West’s greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy, driven by passionately held beliefs, whose betrayal and defection to Moscow reverberated for decades. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified material, Roland Philipps tells this story in full, unravelling the character and contradictions of this dangerous and enigmatic Soviet agent.