Raza Jaffrey All those Spooks mashabiki still mourning last year’s murder of fearless MI5 agent Zafar Younis will be relieved to know that he – or, rather, Raza Jaffrey, the actor who played him in the BBC1 drama series – miraculously survived terminal torture kwa a group of mercenaries and is sitting in the back of my cab.

They may also have spotted Raza, 32, in the dramatically different role of cuckolded husband Hari in BBC1’s Mistresses.

He has just finished rehearsals for the new series of Mistresses in a church hall in London’s Fitzrovia, so our cabbie, Keith from Bexleyheath, drives...

Raza Jaffrey plays Zafar Younis



This is your sekunde series playing Zaf. Do wewe really feel part of the Spooks team now?



Yes, Zaf settles in this year. He's got his feet under the table. The writers and producers are very good at getting wewe in and established in no time. This also means they can kill characters off again just as quickly of course!



Zaf is a bit of a risk-taker. Does he get himself into much trouble in this series?



He always looks a bit too close to coming to a sticky end, doesn't he? He's a very gung ho character that gets himself into a lot of scrapes, so things always have...