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      • Single Spies is a 1988 double bill written by the English playwright Alan Bennett. It consists of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, the former an adaptation of a television play the author had written for the BBC in 1983.
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    Single Spies is a 1988 double bill written by the English playwright Alan Bennett. It consists of An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution, the former an adaptation of a television play the author had written for the BBC in 1983.

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  3. A critically acclaimed double bill of Alan Bennett plays, adapted for BBC Radio. An Englishman Abroad - It is 1958, and in a squalid flat in Moscow, double-agent Guy Burgess is hiding from the world. When he is visited by actress Coral Browne, he is overjoyed to see someone from his former life in England.

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  4. Apr 28, 2016 · Alan Bennett’s ‘Single Spies’ reflects on the lives of some of the members of the Cambridge Spy Ring – the group of men who met at Cambridge and went on to become Soviet spies during the Cold War.

  5. Single Spies is the collective name for two separate one-act plays, ‘An Englishman Abroad’ and ‘A Question Of Attribution’, when performed together as a double bill.

  6. May 4, 2024 · A QUESTION OF ATTRIBUTION. Set in the 1960s, before Professor Anthony Blunt, the director of the Courtauld Institute, was exposed and disgraced as a spy. Blunt is replacing a Titian at Buckingham...

  7. Mar 25, 2016 · It’s a good question and one that Alan Bennett stretches out throughout Single Spies, his revisited double bill of two plays linked by their leads, both part of the infamous Cambridge Five...

  8. This article explores Alan Bennett’s Single Spies (1988), an espionage double bill comprising “An Englishman Abroad” and “A Question of Attribution,” proposing that the personalizing of social, political, and historical themes, as well as the astute documentation of a decaying Englishness and its class system in both plays, are ...