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The Spy Who

Wondery

History

4.6 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1940 and Serbian playboy Duško Popov hopes to sit out World War Two in Belgrade. But when his best friend, Johnny Jebsen shows up at his door to call in an old debt, Popov finds himself sucked into the wartime spy game – as an agent for both Nazi Germany and Britain’s MI6.

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0:00.0	Dushko Popov wakes from his alcohol-drenched slumber.
0:10.2	Gestapo!
0:11.3	Open up!
0:13.2	It's 1937 and Popov studying law in Freiburg, Nazi Germany.
0:18.1	Open up! Popov drags himself out of bed.
0:22.6	He's in his mid-twenties with short black hair.
0:25.6	Yawning, he unlocks the door.
0:28.6	Four Gestapo officers barge past.
0:31.6	One confronts Popov as the others ransack his flat.
0:34.6	Dusko Popov, you are under arrest.
0:36.6	On what charge? The Gestapo officerko Popov, you are under arrest. On what charge?
0:38.3	The Gestapo officer punches Popov in the stomach.
0:41.3	Popov crumples under the blow.
0:43.3	Before he can recover, two officers grab him.
0:46.3	They drag him outside to a waiting car, throw him into the vehicle's boot, and slam the door shut.
0:52.3	Popov snaps awake as cold water hits his face. and slam the door shut.
0:57.3	Popov snaps awake as cold water hits his face.
1:00.5	He's tied to a chair in a Gestapo interrogation room,
1:02.3	and he's been there for days.
1:07.3	Popov's interrogator tosses the metal bucket aside and leans in close.
1:08.0	Admit it.
1:09.5	You're a communist.
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