The Amazing Life of Christine Granville
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Christine Granville was about as James Bond as it gets. Stories of her life as a spy during World War II are legendary. Today we'll tell her story.
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| 1:11.4 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, |
| 1:16.7 | and this is Stuff You Should Know. Oh, Jerry left. She was here, I think, just long enough |
| 1:22.7 | for the interest of that couch. All right, sure. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm kind of excited |
| 1:30.0 | about this one because this is one that out. You got to enter it? Yeah, you ready? Yeah, let's hear |
| 1:37.6 | Chuck. Yes. Have you ever heard of World War Two? Oh, I missed those. Well, uh, sure, |
| 1:48.1 | the big one. Okay, the granddaddy of them all, the big game. No, wait, that's a super bowl. |
| 1:53.6 | I don't think they called it the big game. Well, it turns out Chuck that in World War Two, |
| 1:59.6 | arguably one of the greatest spies in amateur no less came out of Poland and was a woman. |
| 2:08.8 | That's right. Can you believe that? I can. But that's the whole premise of this. Well, |
| 2:15.6 | that's not the whole premise of it, but it's a premise of a lot of stuff. Like get a load of this, |
| 2:19.6 | this lady, what she did, and then when you add it all up, you're like, oh my goodness, |
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