Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James

Rogers and for this episode I've delved deep into the history hit archive to pull

out an episode from the fantastic Chalk Valley History Festival. Chalk Valley is the largest festival dedicated entirely to history,

and it's taking place from the 23rd to the 27th of June this year

with a stage sponsored by History Hit.

This episode is with author, actor and comedian Charlie Higgson,

who you'll know from The Fast Show and Jekyll and Hyde,

but also his books on the Young James Bond, and best-selling author and historian Ben McIntyre

whose most recent book is Agent Sonia at York Valley they bought these two together

to combine Ben's vast historical knowledge and Charlie's passion

for all things spies so they can discuss spies and espionage in fiction and in real life.

Enjoy. Good morning everybody.

everybody.

Thank you very much for coming.

I'm delighted to be here with Ben McIntyre, who many of you will know is a journalist on the times and they're highly successful

acclaimed author of Operation Mincemeat,

Agent Zigzag, SAS Rogue Heroes, and the younger people here will know Charlie as the author of the

young James Bond books and the slightly older people will remember him from the Farsh show.

The younger people will be delighted to know that he's met Johnny Depp,

which is quite exciting. I just want to do a quick straw poll. How many people, because it was

billed as a sort of family event, how many people here were born after the year or in the year

2000? Just put your or in the year 2000.

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