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🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Kim Philby and Guy Burgess are at the height of their power, working as double agents for the Soviet Union. But while their careers are going from strength to strength, their personal lives are in free fall. Destructive habits and paranoia are creeping to the surface. But that's not all... The CIA has just made an explosive discovery - and Philby and Burgess are at the heart of it.
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0:10.5 | Just to let you know, today's episode does contain strong language and some scenes of a |
0:15.1 | distressing nature. Please be advised. |
0:22.6 | Matt, remember at school, on your yearbook, used to write who you would think would do certain |
0:27.3 | things in the future. Yes. And I was just thinking, can you remember who would have been the |
0:32.0 | kid in your class that would have been a spy? Yeah, guy called Simon Kippling, a riled sneak. |
0:39.0 | Very sus. Okay, this is fun. And what about most likely to play for England? |
0:44.5 | I actually went to school with someone who played for England. No, you didn't. |
0:46.8 | Yeah, Jim and Genus. From match of the day, we were in the same form at school and he was playing |
0:51.4 | for forest while we were at school. They went for Newcastle Spurs and played for England. |
0:55.7 | So you didn't even need to crystal ball it. He was already doing it. It was already happening. |
0:59.3 | Okay, what else did they have? Or they had some mean ones, didn't they? What about |
1:02.8 | most likely to die a virgin? Oh, I didn't agree with it, but that was me. Right. Yeah, quite sad, |
1:11.6 | really, but I mean, even sadder is I am on track to achieve that. Right. Friday the 25th of May, |
1:20.5 | 1951, 7 Oaks Kent. Burgess pulls up outside McLean's sprawling three-story detached house. |
1:29.3 | Tucks the travel documents safely in the glove compartment, checks his watch. |
1:34.2 | They're booked on a ship that leads at midnight and Burgess has to get them both on it. |
1:39.8 | He looks up, sees McLean running towards him. His eyes are wild, his face, deathly white. |
1:47.1 | I can't do this. I can't leave my family. I'll take my chances here." |
1:52.1 | He grabs McLean's arm. |
1:54.4 | You all hang for treason. We all will. Get in the car. |
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