MI9 - the secret agency helping British POWs

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In the Second World War, one branch of the security services was established to help British Prisoners escape from German camps and make their way back home. Inventing secret hidden gadgets, they were the inspiration for 'Q' in the James Bond stories. (This podcast comes with a hidden map and compass.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History.
0:09.3	My name is Angela Barnes.
0:12.4	Oh, it's all got confused, John.
0:14.9	That makes me John O'Farrell.
0:16.8	This is comedy.
0:17.5	Oh, what have you done?
0:18.2	It's the only joke that was available to me with the material I had.
0:22.6	We are in series four.
0:25.1	We are 3,000 miles apart, but we're doing this by the wonders of modern technology.
0:30.0	Yeah, that was just the terms of John Zunction.
0:32.7	That's it.
0:33.2	That's what the judge said.
0:34.3	I couldn't get any closer.
0:37.1	So we are today doing a subject that Angela has chosen.
0:42.6	Angela, what have you got for us this week?
0:44.4	So we are talking today, John, about MI9.
0:48.7	When you suggested this, I saw M19 and I thought that might be a motorway.
0:53.0	I chose MI9 for this one because there was a book came out last year by Helen Frye about
0:58.2	MI9 which I've read for this episode and I really wanted to read it.
1:01.8	So I suggested that we talk about it.
1:04.6	And I will say now that the book is incredibly detailed and I do advise people to read it
1:10.2	because it's really interesting.
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