What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.

A brand new drama based on the bestselling novel.

They think they're better than us.

Who do you think you are?

I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.

She's punishing me.

You destroyed my family.

I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.

A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.

Welcome to the Quillette podcast, hosted on alternate weeks by me, Jonathan Kay, and by Iona Italia.

Quillette is where Freethought lives.

We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

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articles, visit us at quillette.com and click the subscribe button. I'm Ayune Italia and I'll be your

host this week.

My guest today is Claire Mully.

Claire is an award-winning historian, biographer, writer and broadcaster, whose work focuses

on the role of women in the Second World War.

She is the author of The Woman Who Saved the Children, a biography of Eglantine Jeb, founder of Save the Children.

The spy who loved an account of the life of Christina Scarbeck, a.k.a. Christine Granville, the first British female special agent in World War II.

The women who flew for Hitler, a double biography of Nazi Germany's only female test pilots,

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