The Cambridge Spies | From Students to Spies | 1

British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kim Philby and Guy Burgess are two Cambridge students with a shared purpose: fighting fascism. When they’re introduced to a KGB recruiter in the 1930s, he tells them they could do just that by sharing British secrets with the Soviet Union. So how far will they go to further the cause? As far as betraying their own country?

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0:00.0	Hello, Prime Members. You can listen to British scandal one week early and ad free on Amazon
0:05.1	music or via the OneDrew Plus subscription on the OneDrew app or Apple podcasts.
0:15.6	Hi, I'm Matt.
0:16.4	Hi, Alice.
0:17.1	I thought we could play a game today to get everyone sort of in the spirit of this episode.
0:21.6	Okay, great.
0:22.4	I thought we could play I spy.
0:24.7	Very clever.
0:25.4	Thank you.
0:26.2	Okay, so I spy with my little eye something beginning with I intrigue.
0:32.8	Yes, okay, start it easy.
0:34.3	Okay, I spy with my little eye something beginning with S.
0:40.7	Suspicion.
0:41.5	Yeah, very good.
0:42.5	Oh, I need to be great at this.
0:43.6	Okay, I spy with my little eye something beginning with L.
0:48.0	Lying.
0:49.2	No.
0:50.5	Lavish settings.
0:52.0	Good guess, but not right.
0:53.6	Laminate and instructions.
0:56.6	Very specific.
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