Hello and welcome to We are History.

We're back on Zoom because, you know, there's only so much we can take of each other's actual company.

So we're sitting opposite you there, Angela, on the stage at the Bedford

embalam.

It's starting to feel a little bit queasy during that recording.

Got home.

COVID test positive.

Yes.

Thanks for that, John.

Luckily, I'd had COVID about three weeks before.

So I was fine.

To anyone in the front row, SOS.

Sorry, listeners listeners thanks for coming

everyone who came it was a good it was a good time it was really fun it was really nice and uh we'll

definitely do some more and but for this week though john we've got quite a remarkable story to tell

and one that people might not have

heard of before. It's a story of a man called Ray Hill, who was the former fascist who turned

informant on Britain's far right extremists. So John, you chose this one. This is a story I came to

via the Guardian obituaries page. I was sitting up in bed one morning back in May and I was reading the paper.

Sorry, John, May this year, you still get a newspaper delivered in 2022. Is that what you're telling me?

Comes after the milkman and the tap dancing chimney sweep, you know.

So I'm sitting up in bed with my cup of tea, reading the paper.

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