When sex is all part of The Game on BBC 2

Tom Hughes’s character uses his allure to wring secrets from women in a major new Cold War thriller, says Susan Griffin

TOM Hughes is a handsome fellow, and his latest incarnation is putting those good looks to use. “He’s a ‘honey-trapper’, which means he sleeps with women for information,” says 29-year-old Hughes of his character, Joe Lambe, in BBC Two’s new thriller, The Game, a six-part series about a team of MI5 officers during the Cold War.

Written by Toby Whithouse (he created Being Human, which stars Poldark’s Aidan Turner, and he also writes episodes of Doctor Who), the drama is set in 1972. The team has been formed as a special committee by the paranoid head of MI5, who is known as Daddy (and is played by Brian Cox).