Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

telly we share what we've been watching

Cladie Aide.

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast for the BBC World Service with me

Susan Hume. We're going back to the autumn of 1979 and the unmasking of a British spy, a

distant cousin of the Queen who passed secrets to the Soviet Union.

I was persuaded by Guy Burgess that I could best serve the cause of anti-fascism

by joining him in his work for the Russians. This was a case of political conscience against loyalty to country. I chose

conscience. Sir Anthony Blunt, a distinguished art historian and curator of the Queen's Pictures was exposed, stripped of his knighthood, and publicly shamed as a traitor for the choice he'd made as a young man at Cambridge University in the 1930s.

He'd been recruited to spy for Moscow along with Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Donald

McLean and John Cairncross.

De Blunt at that time, communism had seemed the obvious antidote to the rise of fascism,

as he explained to Christopher Morris of the BBC in 1979.

Do you now regret having made that decision?

Very much.

At the time it seemed right.

But looking back at it now of course I realize it was a disastrous, an appalling mistake. And also I ought to have

realized at the time that I didn't understand enough about politics really to take a decision of this kind.

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