Introduction

Traitors is a British television drama miniseries created by Bathsheba Doran and broadcast by Channel 4 and Netflix in 2019.

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Outline

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

• Emma Appleton as Feef Symonds, a young, naive and little analytical-intelligent upper-class civil servant in the Cabinet Office recruited as an agent by the Office of Strategic Services.
• Luke Treadaway as Hugh Fenton, a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Derbyshire and Royal Tank Regiment veteran.
• Michael Stuhlbarg as Thomas Rowe, a senior American agent handler of the Office of Strategic Services.
• Keeley Hawes as Priscilla Garrick, a senior civil servant of the Cabinet Office.
• Brandon P. Bell as Jackson Cole, an African-American army driver and Rowe’s assistant at the Office of Strategic Services.
• Matt Lauria as Peter McCormick, an American army soldier and a staff of the Office of Strategic Services.
• Greg McHugh as David Hennessey, a civil servant in the Ministry of Housing.
• Jamie Blackley as Freddie Symonds, Feef’s brother, a closeted gay man, and an unsuccessful Conservative Party parliamentary candidate.
• 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 Pete Seeger song “There is Mean Things Happening in This Land”, recorded for the purpose by Graham Coxon.

Traitors Series

• Episode 01: Feef.
• Episode 02: Hugh.
• Episode 03: Priscilla.
• Episode 04: Rae.
• Episode 05: Jackson.
• Episode 06: It’s Me.

Production & Filming Details

• Creator(s):
  • Bathsheba Doran.
• Director(s):
  • Dearbhla Walsh … (3 episodes, 2019).
  • Alex Winckler … (3 episodes, 2019).
• Producer(s):
  • Rory Aitken … executive producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Bathsheba Doran … executive producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Susan Dunn … line producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Eleanor Moran … executive producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Ben Pugh … co-executive producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Rhonda Smith … producer (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Tim Carter … executive producer (unknown episodes).
  • Josh Varney … co-executive producer (unknown episodes).
• Writer(s):
  • Bathsheba Doran … (created & written by) (6 episodes, 2019).
  • Emily Ballou … (writer) (1 episode, 2019).
  • Tracey Scott Wilson … (writer) (1 episode, 2019).
• Music:
  • Nitin Sawhney … (6 episodes, 2019).
• Cinematography:
• Editor(s):
  • Mali Evans … (3 episodes, 2019).
  • Stuart Gazzard … (3 episodes, 2019).
• Production:
  • 42.
  • Twenty Twenty Television.
• Distributor(s):
  • All3Media (2019) (UK) (TV).
  • Channel 4 (2019) (UK) (TV).
  • Netflix (2019) (World-wide) (video) (SVoD).
  • Acorn Media (2019) (UK) (DVD).
  • Netflix (2019) (Argentina) (video) (VOD).
  • Netflix (2019) (Netherlands) (video) (VOD).
• Release Date: 17 February 2019 to 24 March 2019.
• Running Time: 52 minutes.
• Rating: 15.
• Country: US.
• Language: English.

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