How This Boring Melbourne Suburb Became A Home For Cold War Spies

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Comedy, Music Interviews, Music, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello Penny.
0:01.5	Hello, Christian. How are you?
0:03.1	I'm good, Penny. Now, what can you tell us about the suburb you're from?
0:07.2	I'm from Bentley East, 3165.
0:10.9	Yep.
0:11.5	And back in the early 50s, there was a Russian diplomat, Mr. Mrs. Petrov,
0:18.5	and they defected to Australia on the steps of the plane that was
0:22.9	taken them back to Moscow.
0:25.4	And so the Australian officials looked around, looked around Melbourne and looked for the most
0:30.9	boring suburb they could find and found Bentley East and popped them in there where they
0:36.7	lived very happily ever after until they died in the, um, about 10 or 15 years ago.
0:41.7	What, were they were? Were they hiding from the Russians? Yes, they were, um, double agents, I think, or one of them was.
0:49.3	This, I mean, that is some story, Penny. How do you know this?
0:54.8	Well, I read it in the paper.
0:56.3	Mrs. Petrov was the last bite.
0:58.0	She died about 10 or 15 years ago.
1:00.9	And I just read it in the local paper, and they said that they looked around to the most boring.
1:05.5	And I was a bit missed, to be honest.
1:06.8	Yeah.
1:07.1	Do I want to live in the most. But then I thought, yeah, I'm happy to live in a boring suburb because you can drive to other suburbs.
1:12.6	Bentney's all right.
1:13.5	You've got a great curry house there, I love, on the centre road.
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