Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I am Gaius and Germanicus is here and we're looking at the 20th century now.

There is a new report on the front page of London Times and there is a book attached to it which I've done my best

to order on Kindle but it's not yet available for order in the United States

it's going to be published in Britain. And it tells the tale of the Cambridge

5 from the point of view of one of them who was discovered very late and not removed from his important post as art historian to the royal

family. His name Anthony Blunt and the presumption in allowing him to continue his role as Polymath was that he had betrayed

Britain to an ally, the Soviet Union, and therefore not quite the same as treason, more like untrustworthiness.

How did he do this?

He did this by becoming so valuable to the United Kingdom's state security apparatus that he rose to be the major spy

catcher for MI5.

MI5 and MI6 are foreign and domestic, but during the Second War, they were combined, and prior to the Second

War.

The new revelation is that Anthony Blunt not only spied for Russia, Stalin but portrayed his own country to Hitler. It's a quite

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