Charlie's War

Five burning questions as the spy thriller reaches its explosive finale…

- Ian Macewan

BBC1 spy drama The Little Drummer Girl has had us gripped with the exploits of Charlie Ross (Florence Pugh), the British actress recruited by the Israeli intelligence service to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist cell.

The John le Carré adaptation has been ramping up the tension in recent episodes, and it comes to a nerve-racking climax this week.

After coming face to face with notorious terrorist Khalil, Charlie now finds herself at the centre of a plot to plant a bomb at a London university, but is this the final act of her greatest performance, or has she joined the Palestinian cause for real?

We put our questions to executive producer Simon Cornwell, who also happens to be John le Carré’s son…