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Barnaby Kay’s gripping drama explores what really happened during 1966 prison breakout by Russian spy 14 January, 2021 — By Lucy Popescu BREAKING Blake opens in October 1966 with a memorable football match – England against Northern Ireland – and a prison breakout. George Blake (Michael Maloney), a Russian spy, has just escaped from Wormwood Scrubs. It was initially assumed that the KGB had masterminded his escape, but Barnaby Kay’s gripping drama explores what really happened. In 1961, two anti-nuclear campaigners, Michael Randle (Elliot Levey) and Pat Pottle (Tony G...

IT WAS one of those gloriously serendipitous coincidences. In the Morning Star of December 28 late last year Nick Wright gave us an analytical obituary of spy and novelist John Le Carre and the writer’s undoubted deep understanding of the Cold War. In the same edition, on the paper’s news pages was the report that George Blake, one of Russia’s best known spies in Britain, had died in his Moscow “dacha,” or country cottage at the age of 98. The news item reported tributes to the former Soviet spy and Russian national hero George Blake and outlined the basics of Blake’s amazing sto...

The recent death of the notorious Soviet spy George Blake has reminded me of a documentary film I made many years ago with Sean Bourke, the Irish man who was responsible for springing Blake from prison. Bourke had been befriended by Blake when they shared a cell in Wormwood Scrubs. Blake had been a high-ranking officer in MI6 and the information that he passed on to his Soviet handlers had resulted in the deaths of many British agents in Eastern Europe. In 1961 he had been sentenced to 42 years in prison: one year, it was claimed, for every agent who had died as a result of his treachery.

MASTER spy George Blake has died at the age of 98 in Moscow. For nine years during the Cold War he spied for the Soviet Union from inside the British intelligence services. He was caught in 1961 and jailed for 42 years, the longest sentence for a crime other than murder ever handed down in the UK. He escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 to live out his days in Moscow as a Soviet hero. Russian President Vladimir Putin described him as an “outstanding professional of special courage and life endurance”. “Throughout the years of his hard and strenuous efforts he made a truly...

Top spy George Blake's escape aided by Limerick man Sean Bourke Limerick man Sean Bourke British spy George Blake BRITISH spy George Blake was sprung from London's Wormwood Scrubs prison with the help of colourful Irishman man Sean Bourke. George Blake, who died in Russia on St Stephen's Day aged 98, was the last in a line of spies whose work for the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War proved a major embarrassment to the British security services. Limerick man Sean Bourke and others helped Blake to escape from prison in 1966, from where he fled to Moscow. A second ...