The Women Of SOE: Churchill's Favourite Spy (Part 1)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Olympic skier, cigarette smuggler, countess, beauty queen, spy. Krystyna Skarbek was the first female agent of the Allied war effort, but far from the last. What drove women to join the fight against the Nazis, often deep into enemy-held territory and with nothing but their wits to aid them? Join James Holland and Al Murray as they talk to SOE expert, Clare Mulley, on a thrilling series about the extraordinary women of SOE in an epic, but overlooked, part of WW2 history. A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.
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0:36.0	Welcome to We Have Ways and a very special guest to be able to talk with me Al Murray and James Holland and a very special guest to be revealed.
0:38.3	And today we're going to look in depth at an extraordinary part of the effort in the Second World War.
0:44.3	And we'll get to this that is either romanticized or written off, that is seen as simultaneously this sort of tales of heroism and romantic, glamorous tales, or, well, they didn't
0:56.4	achieve anything, it's not really important, or, you know, if you factor it into the bigger
0:59.6	picture, it doesn't really, doesn't really add anything.
1:02.5	Precisely.
1:03.0	And that subject, we're calling it Christina and Co.
1:06.2	Yes, the subtitle, SOE, female agents.
1:09.1	And we're joined by, well, I mean, the expert, I think it's fair to say.
1:13.5	Thank you very much.
1:14.1	Claire Mully.
1:14.9	Welcome, Claire.
1:15.7	Great friend of the show.
1:16.5	Great friend of the show.
1:17.5	And indeed, great friend of We Have Weadsfest.
1:19.3	Absolutely.
1:20.0	And your book, Agent Zoe, last year.
1:23.0	Was absolutely fantastic.
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