Hello everyone, welcome to Dance Noes History. I'm Dan Snow, good to have you on the pod.

In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a mad couple, were two young sons, were led

to separate prison cells on death row and electrocuted. They'd been found guilty of conspiracy

to commit espionage for the Soviet Union. Julius certainly was a spy. Ethel though may

well not have been. The evidence against it was shaky, it was based on what has turned

out to be perjury by her own brother. This is an extraordinary tale. It was controversial

at the time and it's remained controversial ever since. An on to talk to me about the

Rosenbergs is Anne Seberg. She's been on this podcast before. She's a prize-winning

bargur for lecturer, journalist, writer. She's brilliant and she's written a book about

these two. Anne had dug up new evidence and has put forth a convincing argument to Ethel

Rosenberg, was not a spy. I should not have been executed.

So coming up on this podcast, you'll be hearing all about what Jay Edgar Hoover called

the trial of the century, one of the great landmarks of US Cold War history. Just before

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