A far cry from modelling for the likes of The Kooples and Victoria Beckham, actor Emma Appleton reaches deep into her psyche to weave secrecy, danger, deceit and deception to play the lead role of Feef Symonds in Channel 4’s new six-part political spy thriller series, Traitors. Set in the aftermath of the Second World War, in 1945 London, Traitors is the captivating story of Feef, a young woman who is convinced to spy on her own country for the Americans. Based around a radical period of British history — when Clement Attlee’s Labour party has just swept to victory and defeated Churchill in an electoral landslide — which, in turn, brought women’s rights into the public domain and are particularly relevant today. It is these feminist groups formed by women who had worked during the war, but horizons had been limited afterwards that were the voice of the generations to come. Appleton enthuses “one scene when secretaries were told that the men are coming back from the war and they can go back home and look after kids — women said no we don’t want to want to. We want to work; You can’t just pick us up and drop … Continue reading interview | emma appleton