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The Spy Who
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As the Nazis exert control over Continental Europe, British spy Krystyna Skarbek needs to stay one step ahead of the enemy. But she’s about to discover that the Axis powers aren’t her only problem.
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| 0:00.0 | Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of The Spy Who, ad-free right now. |
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| 0:09.3 | June 1940, Slovakia. |
| 0:12.8 | Christina Scarbeck watches in horror as the Slovakian sergeant holds up the Black Madonna medallion in triumph. |
| 0:24.6 | It's past midnight, and she's on a bridge being held at gunpoint, along with her Polish resistance comrade, Vladimir Ledukovsky. |
| 0:29.6 | Her and Ledukovsky's bluff that their refugees trying to get back to Poland is now blown. |
| 0:35.6 | The guards know these Black Madonna medallions are the symbol of |
| 0:39.8 | the Polish resistance group, the Zet Vuzet. One of the guards returns from searching the river |
| 0:46.6 | beneath the bridge. Whatever they threw into the river is gone. The guard holding the medallion |
| 0:51.4 | shrugs. It doesn't matter. This medallion is proof enough that they are spies. |
| 0:57.5 | Ledukovsky objects. |
| 0:59.1 | We are not spies. |
| 1:00.4 | I've won that medallion since I was a child. |
| 1:02.8 | Shut up. |
| 1:03.7 | Your story is shit. |
| 1:05.1 | And when the Gestapo get here, they will get the truth out of you. |
| 1:08.6 | Now, let's see what else you're hiding. |
| 1:10.6 | The guards empty the contents of Scarbeck's backpack onto the ground. They will get the truth out of you. Now, let's see what else you're hiding. |
| 1:14.7 | The guards empty the contents of Scarbeck's backpack onto the ground. |
| 1:20.9 | A tin of peppermints, a bottle of perfume, lipsticks, then something more incriminating. |
| 1:26.1 | Her forged travel documents, complete with her photograph. Then they find the envelope full of the money Scarbeck was to deliver to the resistance in Warsaw. |
| 1:34.3 | One guard checks the banknotes and grins. |
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