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From Wondery, I'm Charlotte Filby and this is The Spy Who.

In this series, The Spy Who inspired 007, we've been telling the story of the Serbian

Playboy Triple Agent Dushko Popov, whose antics at the casino Esterile were in origin

for the first James Bond novel.

And I'm sure many of you have already picked up on the various elements of Dushko Popov's personality

and story that have inspired the James Bond character.

The globe-trotting adventures, the womanising, the casino royale.

But it turns out Dushko Popov wasn't the only inspiration for 007,

and I look forward to talking with our guest today about the other spies whose

colourful lives and missions, and the best names ever, inspired the novelist Ian Fleming when

he created the character of James Bond. And we will try and establish which real-life spy

is the most James Bond of all.

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I've always been interested both personally and professionally in what it takes to be a spy.

I'm fascinated by the psychology of espionage and how this double life affects people.

It's something I explored in my latest novel, Edith and Kim, which is about the Soviet spy Edith

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