Three full-cast thrillers from one of the finest espionage authors of the Cold War.



Charlie Muffin (a.k.a. Charlie M): Secret Service agent Charlie is a survivor. He needs to be. His own Department is out to get him and so, it seems, are the KGB. But one way or another, Charlie's determined to come out of it alive and rich. Brian Freemantle’s spy thriller, first published in 1977. Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews. Starring Philip Jackson and Sandor Eles.

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie: When MI5 decides Charlie is expendable, he takes the chance to abscond with a million dollars. Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews. Starring Philip Jackson and Sandor Eles.

Plus the standalone spy thriller Goodbye to an Old Friend: When the senior member of a Russian scientific team at the Paris Air Show seeks political asylum in the British Embassy and asks to join his brother-in-law, already being debriefed in England, the authorities can't believe their luck. And yet... his interviewer is uneasy about this new defection - something doesn't quite add up. Adapted by Bruce Beeby. Starring George Parsons, Garard Green and Gordon Whiting.