The Women Of SOE: Set Europe Ablaze (Part 2)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the years and months before the liberation of Europe and D-Day, the female agents of SOE played an integral and highly dangerous role in undermining Nazi rule. Many paid the ultimate sacrifice, often alone and in horrific circumstances - including Noor Inayat Khan, 'The Spy Who Never Lied.' 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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0:43.8	Welcome to We Have Ways, the Second World War podcast with me Al Al Murray, James Holland, and again, for episode two of Christina and co, women in SOE, we're joined by Claire Mully.
0:48.8	And Claire, we left our listeners on a cliffhanger with the fate of Christina Scarbeck.
0:52.0	Should we deliver on that, or should we leave them dangling further?
0:53.0	Well, let's even dangle it.
0:53.5	It's all in the book.
0:54.0	Great. I mean, it's an incredible story Jim. You're looking daggers. No no no not at all. I just
0:58.9	really remember very very clearly when I was back in episode of previous life when I worked in
1:03.5	publishing. I got rung up by someone who gave me half an hour of incredible detail about his
1:10.5	affair with Christina and then started
1:13.5	and then started going on about what had happened to her did he also talk to you about her
1:18.0	achievements or was it just a fair and death no because he had read the last biography of her much
1:24.0	poorer biography than your one and and had a whole load of beef of it.
1:29.3	Oh, good. Well, in the defence of the last biographer, a lot of the files weren't open when it was
1:33.4	written, and I applied under the Freedom of Information Act and got many more files that had never
1:37.9	been out there before, but also managed to interview a whole lot of people. So, I mean, I have to say,
1:42.5	it was a real adventure of researching that, but it was also a real privilege, you know, to tell that story in full.
1:47.9	Well, you've done it amazingly well. Yeah, yeah. Right. So we'll leave that.
1:51.8	Dangling still. We talked about F section in the last episode, didn't we?
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