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🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Author and historian Helen Fry talks about her new book, The Walls Have Ears, which describes an ingenious British intelligence operation to bug German prisoners during the Second World War. Historyextra.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.1	history magazine.
0:50.7	I'm Ellie Corthorne.
0:56.5	For today's podcast, I spoke to the historian and author Helen Fry.
1:00.7	Helen's latest book is The Walls Have Ears, which tells a remarkable story of Second World War espionage,
1:06.9	in which German prisoners of war were tricked into giving away vital secrets.
1:11.8	I met Helen in London to find out more.
1:14.8	So your new book delves into one of the most remarkable intelligence operations of the Second World War.
1:21.1	Could you start off by introducing us to that operation and the story that you go on to tell?
1:27.7	We've all heard of MI5 and MI6, but in the Second World War there was also MI9, and
1:35.4	MI9 was responsible for gaining intelligence from captured German prisoners of war, or actually
1:42.7	incidentally, even intelligence from our guys that were
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