Channel 4 has released a set of images from the new series of Utopia, featuring new cast members Tom Burke (The Hour) and Rose Leslie.

The conspiracy thriller returns for a second series later this month, with other newcomers including Trystan Gravelle (Mr Selfridge), Michael Maloney (New Worlds) and Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars).

Best known as Ygritte in Game of Thrones, Leslie plays a young version of Geraldine James’s character Milner in Series 2’s opening flashback episode, set in the 1970s.

Tom Burke, currently filming the second series of The Musketeers in Prague, plays Philip Carvel – author of the Utopia manuscript.

Original cast members Fiona O’Shaughnessy (Jessica Hyde), Alexandra Roach (Becky), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Ian), Adeel Akhtar (Wilson Wilson), Oliver Woollford (Grant), Paul Higgins (Dugdale), Neil Maskell (Arby) and Geraldine James (Milner) are all returning for Series 2.

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