Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 4
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham
A traitorous actress is pressured by threats into enticing her terrorist lover to leave the safety of neutral Switzerland and join her in France, an ally of England.
Air Date : 1991-11-17
A quiet Englishman, Caypor, has chosen to spend the war in Switzerland, as his wife is German. But Ashenden suspects he may be a spy, and may have to be killed.
Air Date : 1991-11-24
Ashenden is sent to revolutionary Russia with funds for delivery to Kerensky, the Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, who England supports.
Air Date : 1991-12-01
Ashenden is joined by an eccentric assassin known as "the hairless Mexican" who is dangerous.
Air Date : 1991-12-08