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Kim Philby. Episode 1
In this two part special, best-selling author Ben Macintyre explores Kim Philby, the most famous double agent in history. The key to Philby's success, and his survival, lay in his friendship with a man that history has been largely forgotten - Nicholas Elliott. Elliott was Philby's colleague in M16 who befriended him, defended him, and unwittingly supplied him with secrets, until he discovered the truth. Philby was a man of contradictions - charming and courteous, but also a fanatic and a ruthless killer, who deceived his colleagues not only in MI6 and MI5 but also in the CIA, most notably James Jesus Angleton.
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Agent Sonya
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1942, a thin, and unusually elegant, housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted mother-of-three, attentive wife and friendly neighbour, Sonya Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity. However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, Sonya was heading for the Oxfordshire countryside to gather scientific secrets from a nuclear physicist. Secrets that would enable the Soviet Union to build the atomic bomb. Far from an obedient homemaker, Sonya Burton was a dedicated communist, a decorated colonel and a veteran spy who risked her life to keep the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race. In 'Agent Sonya', Ben Macintyre reveals the astonishing story behind the most important woman spy in history and the huge emotional cost that came with being a mother, a wife, and a secret agent at once.
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Kim Philby. Episode 2
In this two part special, best-selling author Ben Macintyre explores Kim Philby, the most famous double agent in history. The key to Philby's success, and his survival, lay in his friendship with a man that history has been largely forgotten - Nicholas Elliott. Elliott was Philby's colleague in M16 who befriended him, defended him, and unwittingly supplied him with secrets, until he discovered the truth. Philby was a man of contradictions - charming and courteous, but also a fanatic and a ruthless killer, who deceived his colleagues not only in MI6 and MI5 but also in the CIA, most notably James Jesus Angleton.
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