Afternoon Play - Mother Spy

Drama documentary by John Fletcher telling the story of Janet Chisholm, one of the most unlikely spies in the history of espionage. Janet, a British Embassy wife and mother in Moscow, was persuaded to use her young children and their trips to the park as cover in handling Oleg Penkovsky, the Cold War's most influential informant, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Janet Chisholm ...... Juliet Aubrey Ruari Chisholm ...... Anthony Calf Oleg Penkovsky ...... Stephen Critchlow Janie Chisholm ...... Rosie Day Tessa Chisholm ...... Skye Bennett Harold Shergold ...... John Rowe Directed by Charlie Taylor.