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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Helena Bonham Carter shines a light on extraordinary stories from World War Two. Join her for tales of deception, resistance and courage in History's Secret Heroes, Series 3.
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0:00.0 | In today's digital world, it's easier than ever to invade someone's life and far harder to escape. |
0:08.7 | Anyone, determined enough to do harm, can find a way to do harm. |
0:13.0 | I'm Carol Cadwalader, an investigative journalist. |
0:15.8 | In this podcast, I followed a story of Hannah, whose life was turned upside down by an anonymous stalker. |
0:21.6 | I no longer know who I can trust. |
0:23.6 | What began as one woman's nightmare became a chilling investigation into deception, control, and the faceless power of the internet. |
0:32.3 | Stalked. Listen on BBC Sounds. |
0:35.6 | Hello, it's Helena, Bonham Carter. |
0:37.3 | I'm popping in to let you know that my podcast for BBC. Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello, it's Helena Bonn Carter. |
0:43.8 | I'm popping in to let you know that my podcast for BBC Radio 4 History's Secret Heroes is back with a new series. |
0:46.7 | These are 10 new stories of unsung heroes, acts of resistance, deception and unbelievable courage. |
0:54.6 | For the next 10 minutes, you'll hear part of the extraordinary story of Noor Inayat Khan, |
1:01.2 | the agent sent to the heart of occupied France to transmit messages back to the Allies. |
1:08.4 | Three years earlier on the 5th of June, 1940, Noor Anayat Khan was in a car driving out of Paris, stuck in an unruly traffic jam of vans, trucks and bicycles. |
1:22.7 | Mattresses were strapped to car roofs. People pushed hand carts. Two-thirds of Paris's population fled |
1:30.2 | before the city was occupied by the Nazis, and Khan was among them. Her family was in the car |
1:36.9 | with her, crammed in among all the possessions they could pack. Aside from brief spells in London, |
1:42.8 | Khan had spent the entire 20 years of her life so far living in the suburb of Paris. |
1:49.7 | It's a beautiful house called Fuzzle Manzil, which means house of blessing. |
1:54.4 | Shrabani Basu is the author of Spy Princess, The Life of Noor Inayat Khan. |
2:01.0 | The large family house was on a tree-lined street. The large family house was on a tree-lined street. |
2:05.1 | From the upper windows in the distance, Khan could see the Eiffel Tower. |
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