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MI5 files: The biggest secrets uncovered from the Cambridge Five archives

From a major UK film star to the Queen’s senior courtier – declassifed documents tell a new story about British spies

The Independent UK

MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be target of KGB sting attempt

Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians.

Evening Standard

Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal

MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spies

The Guardian - UK

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Dirk Bogarde and the KGB’s gay entrapment plot: MI5 files reveal secret warning to British film icon

Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians

The Independent UK

Dorothy Bromiley obituary

One of three British ‘starlets’ picked to play sisters living on a Pacific atoll in the 1953 US comedy The Girls of Pleasure Island

The Guardian - UK

King and Country review – Joseph Losey’s brutal reflection on the futility of war

Tom Courtenay is unforgettable as a first world war private on trial for desertion. But it is Dirk Bogarde, dripping with distaste for his defendant who delivers a horrific coup de grâce

The Guardian - UK

Helmut Berger obituary

Film actor whose hypnotic presence was central to a trio of films directed by Luchino Visconti in the late 1960s and early 70s

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Secrets of Ealing Studios including the stunt that almost drowned Alec Guinness

New book The Secret Life of Ealing Films by Robert Sellers reveals the secrets from behind the scenes of classic movies, including a crevasse fall by John Mills and the stunt that nearly drowned Alec Guinness

Daily Mirror

A lowly sergeant, but Happy Valley’s Catherine Cawood is top of the cops

Sarah Lancashire’s portrayal in the hit series is 10 times tougher than her TV predecessors

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia Syms obituary

Actor who starred in films of the 1950s and 60s including Ice Cold in Alex and went on to a long career in supporting roles

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia Syms, prolific British actor, dies aged 89

Performer starred opposite Dirk Bogarde in Victim as well as playing the mother of Helen Mirren’s monarch in The Queen

The Guardian - UK

Long-lost episodes of Desert Island Discs discovered by fan

The rescued episodes date back to the 1960s and 1970s

Evening Standard

First sitcom, first chef, first castaway, first dance and first Woman’s Hour: 100 years of the BBC, part three

Desert Islands Discs launched, a raffish bachelor made sitcom history, hoofers had a riot and a man called Alan hosted Woman’s Hour – which revealed how to keep your husband’s suits crease-free

The Guardian - UK

Charlotte Rampling on controversy, getting older — and why she can’t be doing with ‘weirdos’

At 76, Charlotte Rampling is still pushing boundaries in both fashion and film. Tom Ellen has an intimate chat with the living legend at her Paris apartment

Evening Standard

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