An evening with Piers Blofeld & Antonia Senior

Get ready for an evening of stolen secrets, deception, and treachery as we go undercover to explore the incredible story of the Cambridge Five.

Master of Lies - Piers Blofeld

Based on extensive research into newly released files, Master of Lies uncovers the untold story of Anthony Blunt’s life as a spy, revealed as not simply “the fourth man”, but the most dangerous spy of the twentieth century.

During the war, as the fate of the world hung in the balance, Blunt’s intelligence was being fed straight on to the desks of Hitler, Stalin and Churchill. His hand was secretly guiding our collective fate and his treason led to the deaths of tens of thousands.

The official narrative is that Blunt was the least of the Cambridge spies – and yet he was the one who got away with it. While the rest drank themselves to death in dingy Moscow flats, Blunt revelled in his brilliant career as an art historian, Surveyor of the Queen’s pictures and Knight of the Realm. Protected not just by his many high-profile friendships, but by the brilliance with which he played the game – his was a secret too big to be told.

Stalin’s Apostles - Antonia Senior

Think you know the Cambridge Five? Think again.

STALIN'S APOSTLES is a radical new look at the way five people allowed their obsession with Communist ideology to overshadow any sense of morality or decency - or loyalty to their country. Why did these gilded charming men, blessed with brains, and beauty and opportunities, choose to betray their country?

Using recently declassified files, STALIN'S APOSTLES explores as never before the treachery of Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross and Anthony Blunt, all radicalised while at Cambridge University in the 1930s.

Shielded for so long by the British Establishment, four of the five were never prosecuted for their crimes. STALIN'S APOSTLES reveals, they were exposed as much by their own incompetence as by forensic investigation by the CIA, MI5 or MI6.

And in time another dictator emerged as ruthless as Stalin, but with an even greater desire to establish a Russian Empire that would threaten Western democracy.