
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
From parachuting into Nazi-occupied France to silent assassinations and exploding rats, many of the missions undertaken by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War sound like the events of a high-octane spy thriller. Dr Kate Vigurs tells Elinor Evans more about the organisation dubbed 'Churchill's Secret Army', answering listener questions on the men and women trained to take on these dangerous, high-stakes secret operations.
The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
4.4
28082,808 ratings
From parachuting into Nazi-occupied France to silent assassinations and exploding rats, many of the missions undertaken by the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War sound like the events of a high-octane spy thriller. Dr Kate Vigurs tells Elinor Evans more about the organisation dubbed 'Churchill's Secret Army', answering listener questions on the men and women trained to take on these dangerous, high-stakes secret operations.
The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
5,389 Listeners
1,898 Listeners
4,664 Listeners
443 Listeners
227 Listeners
711 Listeners
2,993 Listeners
12,904 Listeners
1,745 Listeners
1,967 Listeners
2,615 Listeners
1,187 Listeners
1,398 Listeners
2,067 Listeners
63 Listeners
47 Listeners
877 Listeners
16 Listeners
12 Listeners
2 Listeners