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Welcome to SpyC, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum.

I'm Dr. Mark Jacobson filling in for Sasha Engber today.

We're stepping into the hidden world of spies shaping events around the world. If any blame or fault attaches

to the attempt, it is mine alone. This is the end of the announcement Supreme Allied Commander

General Dwight David Eisenhower had prepared in June 1944 in case the D-Day

landings failed. He never had to deliver it, but the fact that he wrote it tells you all

you need to know about how precarious the success of the invasion really was. And at the center

of that uncertainty was something no army could control, the weather. This is the premise of the new major motion picture,

pressure, the story of the small team of meteorologists

trying to predict the unpredictable.

I'm here today with the screenwriter of pressure, David Haig,

and the film's co-writer and director, Anthony Maris,

to discuss how a simple weather forecast

proved to be a critical piece of intelligence. Anthony and David, to discuss how a simple weather forecast proved to be a critical

piece of intelligence. Anthony and David, thank you for joining me today. Thank you for having me.

And us. Great to be here. David, how did you come across group commander J.N. Stagg in the first

place? And what made you think that his story wouldn't be just a footnote to history,

but really the focus of what would become not just a great play, but then a great screenplay and

movie as well? Well, in 2011, a very distinguished theater in Scotland in Edinburgh, the Royal

Lyceum Theatre, approached John Dove, who was a theatre

director and myself, and asked if we could find a hero on the sidelines of history who was Scottish.

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