Spies with swagger

On the face of it, the character of John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee in the ITV series The Avengers, was an unlikely icon for the swinging 60s. In a decade obsessed with youth, modernity and worki

Bringing home the dead Oleksii Yukov spends his ...

Thrown together in the strangest and most inauspicious of circumstances we reveal the five most unexpected friendships to have ever graced the silver screen

PART ONE

First broadcast 70 years ago this month, we remember Dixon of Dock Green, the ‘cosy’ crime show that didn’t quite keep up with the times

Every wondered what it would take to be a reallife James Bond? Dominic Bliss looks at the skills you’d need to be the world’s most famous literary spy – and how to get them