Sidney Reilly: Britain's Ace of Spies - Episode 51

I first heard the name, Sidney Reilly, in 1983 when his life-story became a television mini-series titled, Reilly, the Ace of Spies. 

Then, twenty years later, while dining with friends before leaving for the theater to see – Ian Fleming’s latest spy thriller, Casino Royale – someone mentioned they had read somewhere that the famous British spy, Sidney Reilly, had served as the inspiration for Fleming’s fictional master spy.

Then, a decade later, while working on a list of potential Dust Bin stories, I came across a quote from author Ian Fleming that – with a touch of literary license – reads, “Oh, you mean my fictional intelligence agent.  He’s just a piece of nonsense I dreamed up.  He’s not a Sidney Reilly, you know.”  And I knew I had another Dust Bin story.

Stories from History’s Dust Bin is a 3-volume set of historical short stories.  These are the nuggets of gold that had fallen by the wayside… the little known and unusual.  Many of these gems were destined to be forever lost until they were collected, dusted off and brought back to life by author Wayne Winterton.

Each podcast episode features one of over 450 short stories from either Winterton’s Award-Winning Stories from Dust Bin series* or the companion volume, From Ace to Zamboni: 101 More Dust Bin Stories, as narrated by either the author or his son, William, or daughter, Jana.

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