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Nazi spies and Viking ships

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones tells the story of an unlikely German spy, while Giles Kristian recalls his adventures on a recreated Viking ship. Rob Attar presents Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. She opened her hairdresser's business in Dundee, and where she got the money to do that is an interesting story.

0:53.4

Did she get it from an aunt in Wales, as she claimed, or did she get it from the arvement of the German Secret Service?

0:59.3

That was Roderoy Jeffries Jones discussing an unusual spy case from the 1930s.

1:02.0

Arse Weld could be a nice insult for the book. I like coming up with new Viking insults and so we could get a few out of this experience, I think.

1:07.0

And that was historical novelist Giles Christian, who has just returned from a trip to Norway,

1:12.3

where he was testing out a Viking long ship.

1:21.0

Hello, and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:25.3

My name is Rob Atar, and I'm the editor of BBC History Magazine, which is the UK's

1:31.0

best-selling history magazine. You can find it in all good newsagents and on subscription. Visit

1:37.6

history extra.com forward slash subscribe hyphen today for our subscription deals.

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And we also have digital editions available for the iPad, for the Kindle, for the Kindle fire, and for Google Play.

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And if you want details of those, head to History Extra.com forward slash digital.

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