🚢 The Prodigal Daughter: A Riveting Return to the Family Fold 🕵️‍♀️🇬🇧

After over a decade away, Jessica Mitford finally crosses the Atlantic for a surreal and tension-filled homecoming to the UK and Europe. What should have been a family vacation quickly shifts into a Cold War spy thriller as Decca and Bob are kind of wanted by the FBI. But they manage to visit Decca’s family in England and they even manage to leap behind the Iron Curtain.

No easy travelling for Americans in the 50s if they’re labelled as subversives.

Chapters: 

0:00:00 Intro & Recap (American Communists in Europe)

0:02:53 Going home - A spy thriller trip to Europe

0:17:03 Visiting Inch Kenneth, Chatsworth, and London

0:21:05 Going to Hungary - luck is on their side ;-)

0:29:45 How was communism in Hungary?

0:32:59 Last stop: Paris & Nancy

0:36:47 Back to the USA

0:37:36 Wrap & Outlook (Decca’s investigative journalism)

For everyone who wants to dive deeper into Jessica Mitford's life, we recommend the following books:

• “Hons and Rebels” by Jessica Mitford (her first memoir)
• “A Fine Old Conflict” by Jessica Mitford (her second memoir)
• "Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford" by Carla Kaplan

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