Traitors is a British television drama miniseries created by Bathsheba Doran and broadcast by Channel 4 and Netflix in 2019. 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.[1]

Traitors
GenreDrama
Created byBathsheba Doran
Starring
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes6
Production
Running time52 minutes
Production companies42
Twenty Twenty Television
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release17 February (2019-02-17) –
24 March 2019 (2019-03-24)

Cast and characters

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Music

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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.[2]

Episodes

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No. in
series
TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateUK viewers
(millions)
1"Feef"Dearbhla WalshBathsheba Doran17 February 2019 (2019-02-17)N/A
In 1945 London, Feef, a vibrant English twenty-something is seduced by an American agent into spying on her own country. Her task is to find a Soviet mole leaking secrets from the heart of government.
2"Hugh"Dearbhla WalshBathsheba Doran24 February 2019 (2019-02-24)N/A
Feef's lover goes missing, just as things begin to heat up in her hunt for the Soviet mole. And she commits her first personal betrayal when she's instructed to spy on the MP who is falling for her.
3"Priscilla"Dearbhla WalshBathsheba Doran3 March 2019 (2019-03-03)N/A
The truth about Jarvis is revealed. And the Soviet mole begins to notice Feef's mission. The game of cat and mouse is on and the stakes are deadly.
4"Rae"Alex WincklerEmily Ballou10 March 2019 (2019-03-10)N/A
Feef makes an enemy of her handler, when she threatens to quit and reveal all - just as a trap is laid for her by the Soviet mole, who will kill the unknowing Feef if she makes the wrong move.
5"Jackson"Alex WincklerTracey Scott Wilson17 March 2019 (2019-03-17)N/A
Feef finds out what happened to her missing lover and who the mole is. She kills one enemy but makes a deadlier one. Time is running out, her life is at risk and she doesn't have any allies left.
6"It's Me"Alex WincklerBathsheba Doran24 March 2019 (2019-03-24)N/A
With no one left to protect her, Feef is forced into the mole's path when she is asked to try to 'turn' them and escape a dangerous, new enemy. Hugh gives her an ultimatum.

References

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  1. ^ "Meet the cast of Channel 4 spy thriller Traitors". Radio Times.
  2. ^ "Traitors, Channel 4". Broadcast. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
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